Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv prt] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They handed people , patients , on to each other , they were known and sought out by the desperate among both clergy and laity . |
| 2 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 3 | It was unfair to the defendant and came about by the calculated action of the police to lull Newall into a false sense of security , he added . |
| 4 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 5 | Somehow a collection for the next few months was cobbled together and gobbled up by the hungry customers . |
| 6 | For some time now , and urged on by the old man 's taunts , he had been intent on fathering a child of his own . |
| 7 | They left the woods and went around by the neighbouring fields — ‘ blind ’ country where the ditches and drains were all concealed in coarse , overgrown grass . |
| 8 | From the free-kick , Anderton 's shot squeezed through a wall which resembled a collander , hit Deane on the way through and rolled in by the near post . |
| 9 | The adjoining suite of offices where I reported was inadequately sound-proofed , so that I felt myself both surrounded and shot through by the very processes that I would be attempting to market . |
| 10 | One rainy afternoon in November 1982 , when 1 was returning from Basrah to Baghdad by car , we were overtaken and swept along by the motorized column of President Saddam himself . |
| 11 | There was a schoolboy excitement about it , but weighed down by the heavy , weird atmosphere of the frozen Gulf . |