Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb past] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the three of them stood by the pump in the stableyard , waiting for their horses to be brought out , George nodded his head towards Gareth Davis , who was across the other side of the yard , well out of earshot . |
| 2 | The two of them flashed by the post . |
| 3 | In his book , The Science of Homoeopathy , the Greek homoeopathic practitioner Vithoulkas presents a slightly different diagram in which each ascending level is shown as being within and higher than the previous one , with all of them interpenetrated by the life force . |
| 4 | In the south , in Baluchistan , opium convoys are protected by rockets , guns and missiles — most of them supplied by the West to fight the holy jihad in Afghanistan . |
| 5 | Results in the 71 seats in electoral districts , where the winning candidate was required to secure over 50 per cent of the votes , were decisive for only 13 seats ( 10 of them won by the DLP ) . |
| 6 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |
| 7 | To coincide with the study 's publication , the council renewed its call for the Data Protection Act to be amended to enable individuals to see any file on them kept by the league . |