Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by the [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pack says social workers should take responsibility for ensuring the forms are completed but they can be filled in by the person the child is living with . |
| 2 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 3 | ‘ No , I have n't , ’ said Sally , ‘ and Ed was also fed up by the way the deal was done . |
| 4 | Er that does n't , I mean do n't take it about six o'clock , seven o'clock at night you could have , that could have worn off by the time the |
| 5 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 6 | When these new factors are brought out by the informant the interviewer can then follow them up in more detail by a simple prompt , such as ‘ Tell me more about what happened when the old vicar died and this new man came who fell out with the schoolmaster . ’ |
| 7 | They would not cruelly ridicule the child but I think she would feel left out by the time the girls were ‘ settling in ’ , as she would not fit in ; girls have more subtle yet often more hurtful ways of rejecting one another and this would be felt by the outsider before long . |