Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was his intention to aid Larsen in evacuating the kids from the upper levels , before they became trapped there by the fire . |
| 2 | This patient just wants to sit miserably by the fire , warming the back , or to lie tucked up cosily in bed , and does not want to move around or to make any effort whatsoever . |
| 3 | As most of the pontoons are rented to local yacht owners or associations one should not dock at a slip unless permitted to do so by the port police . |
| 4 | ‘ The Secretary of State may , if recommended to do so by the Parole Board , release on licence a person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life … but shall not do so in the case of a person sentenced to imprisonment for life … except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice of England together with the trial judge if available . |
| 5 | However , since he may not release a prisoner unless and until he is recommended to do so by the Parole Board , the stage in an individual prisoner 's sentence at which the board considers whether to make a recommendation for his release is therefore very important . |
| 6 | ‘ The Secretary of State may , if recommended to do so by the Parole Board , release on licence a person serving a sentence of imprisonment for life … but shall not do so … except after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice of England together with the trial judge if available . |
| 7 | I want to do right by the kid , give them a good home . |
| 8 | Like its predecessor , this research project is designed to operate mainly by the extraction and analysis of data from existing documentary sources , which are either published and freely available , or which are accessible to the investigators . |
| 9 | The story of St Wulstan 's Hospital forms a fascinating footnote to the narrative of events at Powick , which illustrates that Worcester Health Authority was as much locally impelled to rationalize mental health services , as pushed to do so by the centre . |
| 10 | They were not instructed to do so by the apostles and their doing it was not a condition of membership of the church community . |
| 11 | A period of personal retreat followed this exhausting tour and the rumour , expounded even by Knopfler himself , that Straits had split seemed underlined both by the band 's non-activity and the growing involvement of the frontman with a variety of other artists . |
| 12 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |
| 13 | The light over the water and on the folds of the mountains which formed the banks seemed to change almost by the minute and was an unending delight until nightfall . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) If any constable reasonably suspects any person of committing an offence under the foregoing provisions of this section , he may if requested to do so by the chairman of the meeting require that person to declare to him immediately his name and address and , if that person refuses or fails to so declare his name and address or gives a false name and address he shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection . ’ |
| 15 | Conversely the tenant may contract to remove fixtures either unconditionally , or conditionally upon being requested to do so by the landlord . |
| 16 | A transfer normally requires signing only by the seller . |
| 17 | The problem.solver gets carried away by the interest of the idea . |
| 18 | She felt angry with herself for getting carried away by the ideas in her head , for turning her back on reality . |
| 19 | Below is a selection of questions you might like to ask , either during the interview or when invited to do so by the interviewer . |
| 20 | Mussolini took advantage of these largely theoretical impositions to say that the League 's intention was to destroy the Italian economy and , surprising as it may seem today , the people of Italy reinforced what proved to be his growing megalomania by demonstrating , when inspired to do so by the press , that they were ready to make any sacrifices that might be asked of them . |
| 21 | They have a child — yes , Jack , you will be the child , a very brave remarkable child who gets ravished away by the lion . |
| 22 | How long before she gets eaten away by the meths and dissolves into dust blown by the wind ? |
| 23 | By contrast , in the Rose Theatre case the judge seems to have been influenced to deny standing partly by the fact that the Trust had been formed only for the purpose of campaigning for the preservation of the remains of the theatre ; whereas the same judge in another case accorded standing to challenge a grant of planning permission to a representative of a snake-preservation society which had been active on the site in question for many years and had ‘ put money into it ’ . |
| 24 | It wants you to press enter again by the way . |
| 25 | It 's pitch dark and you have to stand up dead straight and if you wobble at all you get spiked either by the glass on the walls or the nails on the door . |
| 26 | They 'll have to go again by the sounds of it . |
| 27 | Third World Christians already outnumber those in North America and Europe — and the margin will have widened greatly by the year 2000 . |
| 28 | Since the formation of the IGS the number of staff employed increased rapidly by the formation of units working on many branches of earth science . |
| 29 | MC Cornwall TR3 6HR THE inheritance tax changes announced in the Budget did not become law so the nil rate band will have increased automatically by the RPI to £147,000 on Monday . |
| 30 | She was rescued from having to say more by the arrival of the milkman . |