Example sentences of "[verb] in [pers pn] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you know , for every one of us as Christians , Jesus Christ lives in us by the Holy Spirit , by his spirit . |
| 2 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 3 | And though , of the two , the first is no longer available to support the judgment , the second — whether the Socialism perceived is dogmatic or diffident , Marxist or empirical — is operative still to provide , for better or for worse , assumptions about the form of industrial democracy and about the roles , contrasted or opposed , to be played in it by an industrial co-operative sector and the trade unions . |
| 4 | On the other hand we can not forget the trust placed in us by the general public , nor can we watch the gradual erosion of the original plans without a public protest , and a public request to the health authority to please think again . |
| 5 | Nor was she going to give in to the warm and leaping sensations being generated in her by the slow , rhythmic stroking of his fingers . |
| 6 | A love of art was kindled in her by a Dominican priest in the 1930s , and indeed , a spiritual and moral consciousness beyond the usual lip-service to the ‘ otherness ’ of creative endeavour has always informed her involvement in art . |
| 7 | The spark of poetry was kindled in him by an elderly woman who lived with the family and was full of tales of witches and warlocks . |