Example sentences of "by [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardly a day went by but she saw some lass or other picked up by them snots . |
| 2 | Many readers of his apologetics must have been disconcerted by me fact that his chapter about conversion in Beyond Personality is entitled ‘ Let's Pretend ’ . |
| 3 | Furthermore , ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ provides the chance to get a look at the figure named by me Dostoevsky 's good angel , because here again , as in the two earlier cases , the novelist took no steps to restore the deleted material at some future date when he was his own master ; and I think he was right . |
| 4 | One of his texts was ‘ By me Kings reign ’ ; another was ‘ My son , fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change . ’ |
| 5 | I just drifted into it 'cos I was forced into it by me family . |
| 6 | Well dey are known by dere fruits |
| 7 | His passions and hatreds had other sources , fastening more readily on the fatuous and feeble administrators , the ‘ old gang ’ by whom England and her dependent territories were governed . |
| 8 | No one knows when or by whom whisky was invented , but it was being made in Ireland when Henry 11 carried out his invasion in the twelfth century , and by Tudor times distilling was a thriving industry in Scotland . |
| 9 | They had a son , Alfred Samuel , by whom Goodridge 's practice was continued after he retired , c .1855 . |
| 10 | The result is the present multiplicity of bodies producing confusion both at the administrative level and on the part of the electorate , who are left wondering where and by whom decisions are actually taken . |
| 11 | John Merritt , a young reporter then on the Mirror , by whom Pilger set much store , was particularly difficult to pin down . |
| 12 | It was even claimed that she had been poisoned by an African wife by whom Maclean was credited with having had several children . |
| 13 | In 1910 her The History of English Secular Embroidery appeared and it was followed in 1914 by Furniture in England from 1660 to 1770 and Decoration in England from 1660 to 1770 , albeit both under the name of the fashionable decorator Francis Lenygon , by whom Margaret was casually employed . |
| 14 | You will perhaps be affronted by my frankness Ellen but I am distressed and if you were to think on it you would understand . |
| 15 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 16 | Mr Hargreaves at Sussex had been surprised by my choice . |
| 17 | I did no work that I can remember — I know I was considered hopeless by my teachers and I was quite ready to believe I was hopeless — I can quite well remember keeping mice at the back of the classroom and I can remember the smell . |
| 18 | Oh I think so , I mean I , again I hope there are n't any Catholics in the audience who are offended by my remarks , but it 's just my personal opinion , that yeah , th th you know , th th that is the case and at the least I mean whatever judgment one makes about this thing , I , I repeat what I said earlier about you got ta be terribly careful when using the word natural . |
| 19 | I stand by my remarks concerning Tchaikovsky 's music being misused in this manner . ’ |
| 20 | As time goes by , Herta seems more and more put out — by my impotence . |
| 21 | I lay in the small , gauzy tent made by my mosquito net and tossed and turned and had one dream after another . |
| 22 | The Emperor 's speech included the statement : " I think of the suffering your people underwent during this unfortunate period , which was brought about by my country , and I can not but feel the deepest regret . " |
| 23 | Well I would be in some difficulty there sir because erm I have clearly this is a very important and sensitive er issue , one which involves erm one which would involve erm consideration by my members of the various issues , erm I have no authority to express a detailed view on a ma on a matter of principle , or indeed a general view as to wh as to which is the er the best location . |
| 24 | Er the Director of Transportation recognises that , it was said that he 's happy to await the outcome of liberations by that er District Council and that 's what the Conservative group has suggested that we do but if he wants you to recognise that every policy has to be accepted , the way in which they have performed time and decided to be addressed by my members of of all parties and therefore I urge you to support the Conservative resolutions I now put forward . |
| 25 | I was approached by my head of RE , Marie Kelly , last summer , after completing two years of A-level study at St Mary 's College , Wallasey . |
| 26 | He kneels by my head , grinning . |
| 27 | I was invited to give an entertainment at the Bristol Old Vic theatre , the wonderful old Theatre Royal , the oldest extant theatre still being used in the country and one of the oldest in the world , a very beautiful place erm and I was asked if I would do an entertainment that I have called Come for the Ride which I was persuaded to concoct by my home town of Birkenhead in the North West of England . |
| 28 | In effect , if it was a profession it was a profession in name only ( a point made indirectly by my lecturer who studiously avoided use of the word ) . |
| 29 | She spent a week enjoying the beauty of Scotland and the beginning of the Edinburgh Festival , whilst I gained the opportunity to draw the most professional model I suspect it will ever by my privilege tow work with . |
| 30 | She spent a week enjoying the beauty of Scotland and the beginning of the Edinburgh Festival , whilst I gained the opportunity to draw the most professional model I suspect it will ever by my privilege tow work with . |