Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] by [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a strange conversation , sleepily hostile , with both of them drained by the extravagant expenditure of passion that had gone before . |
| 2 | The composition is saved from monotony by the subtle characterisation of these figures , and united by the concentration on them effected by the inward-facing chariot-teams and the looks of some of the seated figures and of the two reclining in the angles who frame the design . |
| 3 | Corbett stared at him and looked away , the tension between them broken by the Pictish leader who took Thomas by the hand , like a child with a parent , and led him into the largest house , beckoning Corbett to follow them . |
| 4 | Now what I mean by an easy question something like |
| 5 | I would like to give you just one illustration to show what I mean by the disintegrating influence of a dynamic force . |
| 6 | I knelt by the broken man . |
| 7 | As we also found earlier , it is far from easy to specify exactly what being an autonomous agent actually consists in , although we have a firm conception of a kind of ideal type — someone moved by the pure light of reason who ponders the evidence before them and makes considered , unconstrained decisions . |
| 8 | We did n't see him , but we had a superb seafood meal in a trattoria on a hill and found ourselves adopted by a shaggy island dog , another hazard of Mediterranean voyaging . |
| 9 | Er suggested that the officers have a joint meeting and get together and actually ask them what transport to be given the figures er for night flights so that they could and so on , and I know by the recent customer complaints and I believe members attended the meeting of those four Councils so that I think that discuss that . |
| 10 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
| 11 | THE LAST thing likely to cross the mind of someone woken by a yapping dog in the middle of the night is the question why do dogs bark when wolves rarely do . |
| 12 | Er the idea was we 'd be able to sell it to people or give it to people depending on whether they had any money or not I suppose by the Green Party . |
| 13 | First , what do I mean by an imprinting stimulus ? |
| 14 | before so I lent them , so he 's gone in I go by the same time as him we both got ta sign them |
| 15 | I paused by the first green , where one of the greenkeepers was raking 8 deep bunker . |
| 16 | I waited by the eighteenth green with thousands of spectators to see the denouement , and my money was mentally on the dashing Swede . |
| 17 | There 's no doubt they can help enormously , but in a country like Zambia , with 50 per cent of its population crammed into urban areas , there 's always going to be someone tempted by the rich pickings of poaching . |
| 18 | " I swear by the Blessed Virgin that it fell into the sea . " |
| 19 | A few complex cases are recorded with mixed or joined symbols ( e.g. , those of Nurgle and Tzeentch for someone killed by a disfiguring disease which caused the victim to be burnt as a mutant ) . |
| 20 | I declined his offer of another brandy , made my excuses , and thanking him for his hospitality I left by the back door . |
| 21 | ; I left by the X-o'clock train ; I did the business I had to do there ; and by X-o'clock I was back . ’ ' |
| 22 | I had long intended making this proposition to the Secretary of State , but I was urged sooner to it perhaps because I felt that I was reduced in circumstances and thrown from my position in Society , and I hoped by a grand effort to establish a permanent claim on the consideration of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 23 | As someone seduced by the clever remake that was ‘ Iron Lion Zion ’ , I ca n't say that I feel quite as lubricated by this one . |
| 24 | For a while I stood by the shattered doorway , wondering what to do . |
| 25 | I stood by the open window and the dogs licked my hands as I listened . |
| 26 | The acquisition of grave-clothes did not need to wait until death , and many a young bride-to-be , especially in the more remote country areas , included such items in their trousseaus , either buying them ready-made from one of the known outlets , or having them made by a local seamstress , or producing them herself . |
| 27 | Courier beat Stefan Edberg in the final , which failed by a large margin to live up to it 's billing . |
| 28 | The biggest increase came through trade sales of children 's books , which rose by a remarkable 84% . |
| 29 | He was amused to find himself surrounded by the dead mackerel of his own catch , and held one aloft , waving and shouting to his crew that if they did n't hoick him out good and quick , there 'd be no free ale in Mother Russell 's that night . |
| 30 | It was n't going to help Andrew 's plight , endowing himself bewitched by a young gypsy girl he could never have , but Fate was n't always kind when it selected the tricks it was going to play . |