Example sentences of "[v-ing] by this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eyes turned as she walked slowly across the room , brushing by this man and that . |
| 2 | That is accomplished by remembering , applying and living by this truth : at work , whatever our standing , we are servants of Christ before we are servants of any earthly master . |
| 3 | The king , however , did not pay for them , not least because he was saving by this means the need to provide the beneficiary with a pension from the exchequer . |
| 4 | I do not mean just dating by this ; there are all sorts of relationships that you can enter into that are just on a one-to-one basis . |
| 5 | Sir , I apologise , I was going by this figure made by which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March , I think and in fact , that is a an error on the officer 's part it would appear from the licensing authorities in fact , it expired at the end of May . |
| 6 | I want him waiting by this corner . |
| 7 | The wines are attractively presented , making a good impression , and at tasting by this magazine 's group editor , Brian Hargreaves , and food and wine consultant Peter Williams , made an instant impact of being decidedly different , due partly in the case of the whites to a variation of the French sur le lie process , most familiar in Muscadet . |
| 8 | How were your er wages moving by this time ? |
| 9 | The difference to which he was drawing our attention , therefore , remains a fundamental one between the types of society Marx was distinguishing by this means . |
| 10 | This is the conclusion which many , approaching by this or similar routes , have come to see as inevitable , after the successive failures to prove that principles of conduct can be grounded in the existence of God , or in Kant 's Categorical Imperative validated a priori like ‘ two and two make four ’ , or in the biological facts of evolution or the psychological facts of human needs . |
| 11 | It was difficult to x-ray his leg so far up , and as it was a small machine and needed a relatively long exposure it was hard to get a clear picture with him shaking as the poor boy was doing by this time . |
| 12 | Whilst poor Millie , far from playing cello concertos at the Festival Hall , or leading archaeological expeditions to Asia Minor , or whatever she was expected to be doing by this time , is … |
| 13 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 14 | So he got the barn and he he had it in a peedie pail you see and he was on his road home and he was coming by this that hillock at Yensetter there . |
| 15 | What Gandhi may be indicating by this reference to the convertibility of the terms means and ends in his thought is that our religious and ethical ideals not only inform the ends we aim at and endeavour to attain , but also the means we employ to reach them . |
| 16 | Well what I 'm saying is , yeah and I mean we 're all learning by this . |
| 17 | Belinda nodded , knowing by this time that Faye had been hospitalised several times for keto-acidosis and other diabetes-related problems brought on largely by her former wildly fluctuating blood-sugar levels . |
| 18 | Coming here and sitting by this monument , re-reading these great essays , these testaments to all that is best in use , is just a way of delivering personally my letter of thanks . |
| 19 | MANCHESTER United skipper Bryan Robson will be standing by this afternoon to make a sensational comeback against Torpedo Moscow . |
| 20 | The persuasiveness of this judgment is widely attested ; but before we can gauge its force , we must consider the grounds for standing by this form of individualism . |
| 21 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
| 22 | Judging by this description that breathless voice probably belonged to none other than ‘ By Jove ’ Allison . |
| 23 | And judging by this shot of Ryan playing baseball near his California home , he 's really huge in the role . |
| 24 | The two children were positively screaming by this time and shouted to their grandmother . |
| 25 | And I was screaming by this time and Miss goes oh be quiet everybody ! |
| 26 | Between 1532 and 1534 , the passing of each individual piece of legislation was closely followed by the appearance of official government propaganda justifying it and anticipating the next move , a fact that suggests that a coherent policy was unfolding by this stage . |
| 27 | But in April it still retained an image of patriotism and integrity , attracting by this the support of financiers and of the Rothermere press . |
| 28 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 29 | His sisters , all working by this time , supported him through a course at the New York Fashion Institute of Technology . |