Example sentences of "it [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now take it sentence by sentence , what about the first one ? |
| 2 | I can then print it out or call it back and speak it sentence by sentence . |
| 3 | Whatever it was , it was like a wall between them and he was honest enough to admit to himself that most of the time he was building on it brick by brick in order to blot her out of his sight … forever . |
| 4 | Surely no tide could have them if they clasped hands and fled from it side by side . |
| 5 | She was not really surprised to see Jenny and Matthew crossing it side by side , Jenny talking animatedly , looking up into Matthew 's face . |
| 6 | Professor MacFee had read it had been startled by its undoubted merit , and had carefully discussed it chapter by chapter with him , suggesting how to improve it . |
| 7 | Unions call it closure by stealth , they feel tricked . |
| 8 | Yeah , was it fungus by any chance ? |
| 9 | What , seen , what have you been to that Liberti is it Liberties by the town church ? |
| 10 | " He envisages any show as a complete theatrical entity-staging , set design , choreography ; he 'll map out the whole show , then monitor it bar by bar — police it . |
| 11 | And equally we were beginning we we had also , discussed the way in which we would approach it sector by sector . |
| 12 | But they did have a very clear idea of how they wanted the house to look and resigned themselves to living with the mess while they tackled it room by room . |
| 13 | Why do n't we just empty this whole deck and search it room by room ? ’ |
| 14 | Is it inference by analogy ? |
| 15 | And , as time melted the sunbeam and dripped it moment by moment from the desk to the floor , Chesarynth had only her dubious belief in Friend to sustain her . |
| 16 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 17 | ‘ The most important thing is to organise a system that encourages them to stick at it day by day and week by week . |
| 18 | It was reactive , responding to problems and issues thrust upon it day by day , rather than pro-active in trying to shape the organisation 's future at a strategic level . |
| 19 | Because you produced it on loose pages I could exhibit it month by month as you organised it . |
| 20 | And out he goes and gets this woman and in she comes with a chart with a woman 's name the job number , that done it week by week or fortnight , whatever it does . |
| 21 | Mr Simpson said that he rejected the footage , which purported to depict ‘ the greatest single-day defeat for Soviet troops since World War II ’ , as untrustworthy after reviewing it frame by frame . |
| 22 | He began to read it page by page , showing amusement , but remaining on my side of the counter . |
| 23 | Calming myself I took it page by page , instead of going straight to the Rrap as I usually do . |
| 24 | Upstairs in the nursery the baby is tearing up The Anatomy of Melancholy , and eating it page by page . |
| 25 | A good example of this is a rose : in order to press it successfully , you have to dismantle it petal by petal , and when you are re-assembling it you really only need half the amount of petals , so you can create two roses from one original flower . |
| 26 | You work your way through it word by word , sentence by sentence , paragraph by paragraph , trying to hold in your head some idea of the totality to which these bits are contributing . |
| 27 | Users who have commented that , " It should look for phrases " or " Why does it do it word by word ? " can only be answered by saying that phrase searching often does not work very well because many books are not described in the catalogue by the phrases which searchers use . |
| 28 | We also yes I must remind you that we have read the papers so I do n't necessarily want to go through it word by word line by line er but obviously when you want to make a point you will refer back to those papers but do n't you must assume that we have read them and that everybody else has read them . |
| 29 | erm They do n't like them to buy copies of the school reading scheme and keep it at home and go through it book by book , that they feel is encroaching on their professionalism . |
| 30 | This time is taken up by reading each word from the ASCII file , working through it letter by letter , allocating any new nodes required and setting up the pointers correctly . |