Example sentences of "by something [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other side of the placebo coin is that people can be made ill by something they believe will make them ill . |
| 2 | This is identical with the reaction of primitives to a fetich : it is animated by something they can not understand . |
| 3 | We want to provide for the children 's cognitive development , yet do not wish to assess them by something they are not fully competent in : the English language . |
| 4 | You can think you know someone as well as yourself , but then you are caught up , surprised , by something they say . |
| 5 | I must have been partly stupefied by something they gave me . |
| 6 | ‘ What can happen in one 's middle-fifties one can be bugged by something they say that makes you react as if you are six . |
| 7 | She was left uneasy by something she did n't understand . |
| 8 | It was a simple task made difficult by something she could n't name . |
| 9 | Are there any ways in which you react now to conflict situations which have been affected or constrained by something you have learned from the past ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm puzzled by something you 've turned up , ’ he said . |
| 11 | I am trailing them along the line of their tea-breaks and their modest working lunches of packet soup followed by something you eat with mustard . |
| 12 | Once , moved beyond composure by something he heard or saw , he rose abruptly and stood with his back to them , facing out over the sodden countryside . |
| 13 | But on that morning my happiness was clouded by something he said to me as we were walking home to lunch : ‘ Your parents know about you , Jim — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 14 | She was never ill , but now she looked beaten and angered by something he must be doing to her . |
| 15 | This is particularly likely in a horse who shies suddenly when he is frightened by something he can not identify . |