Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I I sat by the side of this other car for about five minutes you know ? |
| 2 | She was ashamed of causing his inner disturbance which she sensed by the restlessness of his hands , and she wondered if he was praying . |
| 3 | The easiest course was to leave the car , which they did by the end doors , and they were still walking in single file through the train when it came into Hammersmith . |
| 4 | Harry again experienced a sudden lethargy of the lower limbs , which he overcame by the thought of the greater paralysis at being trapped in the glass lift , forevermore exhibited up and down the tropical conservatory . |
| 5 | He succeeded in 1666 to an estate with the annual value of at least £5,000 , which he increased by the purchase of Symondsbury . |
| 6 | He usually came in the middle of the day , pushing something ahead of him which he set by the side of the benches before taking some food out of a box . |
| 7 | No secret was made of the fact that the government bureaucracy was guided in everything it did by the CPSU bureaucracy , the Secretariat : ‘ The CPSU , and particularly its full time staff , monopolizes the processes of generating and controlling political power in the USSR , transmitting its binding decisions to elites in state and public organizations through its territorial party committees and primary organizations ’ ( Barghoorn and Remington , 1986 , p. 305 ) . |
| 8 | I mean sometimes do it very cleverly but what I 'm saying is I want to illustrate what I meant by the words never used message . |
| 9 | Barth thought that if we knew what we meant by the word ‘ God ’ , then God must exist . |
| 10 | There we shot grouse , partridge , pheasant , occasional duck , snipe and woodcock and innumerable rabbits , more than earning whatever we shot by the amount of exercise we took to get it . |
| 11 | We asked men and women what they understood by the oppression of women , what changes the new society would bring for them and what they hoped to contribute to that new society . |