Example sentences of "by [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge , as the Gods who all things know . |
| 2 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 3 | If a council crossed an upper threshold implied by them it ran the risk of being capped . |
| 4 | Cos it really has been extremely well managed , extremely well run , er not by me I 've just received the ballot papers . |
| 5 | Yeah , I said it 's due to go off now , I said , half past three and we waited and waited and he said well it 's ten to four by me he said and I have n't heard one . |
| 6 | She was respected by everyone she worked with and was brilliant at the job . |
| 7 | Stephen O'Brien is a remarkable man , liked and respected by everyone he comes into contact with . |
| 8 | Suddenly angry , Seb said , ‘ You 'd refuse to serve a man who 's had a university education , is respected by everyone he 's met and whose father is acquainted with the Duke of Marlborough . |
| 9 | The Apostle Paul writing to the believers in Rome said ‘ We also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement . ’ |
| 10 | Hostels Researchers at The Policy Studies Institute were commissioned by the then Department of Health and Social Security to study the extent to which hostels for the needy provided care as well as accommodation and food , to enable the department to decide if , how , and by whom they should be funded . |
| 11 | In the Attlee era , the British people knew by whom they were led . |
| 12 | ‘ In many Free Churches I fear that awe is an unknown factor ’ and ‘ some who sneer at elaborately worked altar-cloths would do well to cultivate the spirit of those by whom they were presented . ’ |
| 13 | Complaint was frequently made that excessive numbers of underforesters were appointed , and that they levied oppressive exactions to maintain themselves and the grooms or pages by whom they were accompanied . |
| 14 | Eugene Malou and Frank Friedmaier are far more interesting than the people by whom they are condemned : the fact that they come to sticky ends is Simenon 's fig-leaf , his nod in the direction of conventional morality . |
| 15 | Scotland is now effectively trapped inside a political union that denies Scottish voters the right to decide for themselves how they are governed and by whom they are governed . |
| 16 | Oriental rugs can also be split into four broad categories which relate to their overall characteristics and appearance , rather than to where or by whom they were made . |
| 17 | As she points out : Remarkably little research has been carried out on the question of how these filters operate , and by whom they are operated , yet any policies aimed at harmonizing the interests of agriculture , conservation and recreation in the countryside must be based upon an understanding of this problem . |
| 18 | Many amateur musicians will have been influenced by the training undertaken by the professionals by whom they were , or are , themselves taught . |
| 19 | On the other hand , certain of our major retailers ( e.g. Marks and Spencer ) are commonly thought of as models of efficiency , and their ‘ own brands ’ command widespread respect — the typical consumer does not think twice about which factory or by whom they are made . |
| 20 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 21 | In making his assessment that a breach was likely to occur , the senior policeman was entitled to take into account not only the conduct of the appellants themselves , and that of the people by whom they were accompanied , but also what they had heard and seen on television and read in the newspapers about the way in which the miners ’ strike was conducted , ‘ and to exercise their common sense and judgment on that material ’ as well as what they saw with their own eyes . |
| 22 | Thereafter , in Gibbon 's memorable phrase , " encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion , the Aethiopians slept near a thousand years , forgetful of the world by whom they were forgotten " . |
| 23 | If so , there are no responsible ministers by whom she can be advised , because the Commonwealth as such has no government and no ministers , and she must be speaking therefore without responsible advice . |
| 24 | For the next 15 years she was to lead an undistinguished life of secluded domesticity until her marriage to a middle-aged magistrate , by whom she bore three children . |
| 25 | Anne Plantagenet , meanwhile , had divorced Exeter and married Thomas St Leger , by whom she had a daughter , also called Anne . |
| 26 | , Thomas ( 1860–1900 ) , physicist , was born 23 May 1860 in Ballyhagan , Kilmore , county Armagh , Ireland , the youngest of three sons , the eldest of whom died young ( there were no daughters ) , of Abraham Dawson Preston , a gentleman farmer of Mulladry , Kilmore , and his wife Anne , daughter of John Hall , quartermaster , and widow of John Ritchie , by whom she had a daughter . |
| 27 | Her husband , by whom she had two sons , was chaplain of All Souls and lecturer in modern history at several undergraduate colleges . |
| 28 | The rape of virgins is a crime imputed by a woman to the man by whom she says she has been forcibly ravished against the king 's peace . |
| 29 | Anne Plantagenet , meanwhile , had divorced Exeter and married Thomas St Leger , by whom she had a daughter , also called Anne . |
| 30 | He knew too that she had a lover called Joe Landau by whom she was not pregnant . |