Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 2 | They moved stealthily , the switches in their hands grasped like weapons through the rank smell of wild rhubarb and down towards the damp growth by the stream . |
| 3 | Merely pushed along throughout the final quarter-mile by Ray Cochrane , the Luca Cumani-trained two-year-old kept on well to finish fourth , beaten only four lengths . |
| 4 | Beyond this palace , turn to your right down into the Italian quarter by following the stairs of St John 's Hill ( Jánský vršek ) to the bottom . |
| 5 | BR 's corporate planning was reformed to fit in with the new structure by devolving responsibility for planning largely to the five businesses and by developing ‘ action plans ’ to commit lower level management to business objectives ( Heath 1984 : 221 ) . |
| 6 | They will have been ‘ dumped ’ along with the other books by ‘ yesterday 's men and women ’ . |
| 7 | Some churchmen have gone along with the new permissiveness by conceding that as long as two people love each other that is all that really matters . |
| 8 | This re-coalification , along with the good seal by evaporites of the Zechstein and Bunter Formations , seems to be the reason for the development of numerous gas fields on the South Oldenburg Ridge which , moreover , is characterised by a flat doming of the Upper Carboniferous and therewith by good conditions for gas accumulation . |
| 9 | CFCs are broken down in the upper atmosphere by UVB , and release chlorine atoms . |
| 10 | At eleven o'clock the following morning , Buzz sat down on the blue chair by Elinor 's bedroom window , pulled the kitchen timer from the pocket of her navy cotton dress , and set it to twenty minutes : the mechanism began to tick in an irritating way . |
| 11 | He set the basket down on the low table by the oven , then turned back , looking at the boy . |
| 12 | Her mother handed her a glass of white wine , so generously filled that Kate was obliged to take a long sip before it was safe to put it down on the small table by the side of the chair . |
| 13 | Perhaps the papers must be examined twice by two different examiners in different parts of the country ; the marks must be sent in to the central body by a certain date ; there may be not only scores of examination papers but hundreds , each of them containing the attempts of several questions . |
| 14 | Log in to the new process by typing : |
| 15 | He sat down at the old table by the window and put a new sheet of paper into the typewriter . |
| 16 | I trust that the benefits which will accrue during this central development will carry over into the future developments by individual colleges and institutions as the process of devolution of unit writing and assessment is established . |
| 17 | Some reports in early December alleged that Arad was being held in Syria , having been handed over to the Syrian government by Hezbollah , although Hezbollah officially denied any knowledge of Arad . |
| 18 | He crawled over to the fallen branch by the big pine , found his second shotgun and unwrapped it . |
| 19 | Club president Gordon Podmore successfully defended the sponsors trophy at Hill Valley Golf Club , Whitchurch , and the four-man team walked off with the main tournament by one Stableford point . |
| 20 | Only 130 of the original population of 1,000 Arara Indians survive , according to Fiona Watson of Survival International , and 40 of these , contacted for the first time in 1988 , are cut off from the main community by the Bannach road . |
| 21 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 22 | The padlocks would be off at the main entrance by now , for the late-morning mail and for bar deliveries . |
| 23 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 24 | Its March 1992 bulletin , though , took a surprisingly simplistic approach to ethnicity and religion , justifying the setting up of the Muslim Parliament by pointing to the racist press coverage it had received . |
| 25 | Martin Flook , 19 , said he had twice been beaten up in the previous year by Ian Coombes , a passenger in the other vehicle , who was dating his ex-girlfriend . |
| 26 | As regards the visual interpretation of each array considered in isolation , Ullman relies on the work of David Marr , who studied the information picked up from the ambient light by the retina , and the image-forming computations performed on it by peripheral levels of the visual system ( Marr 1976 , 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 27 | If Darwin showed biologically that evolution was nature 's way of natural selection and continual improvement , he was backed up on the social level by all the great social theorists who taught one version or another of perpetual progress . |
| 28 | In a project , this could perhaps involve examining texts such as the different accounts of the events leading up to the Norman Conquest by Anglo-Saxon and Norman contemporary writers . |
| 29 | ‘ The files record each stage of the case up to the final decision by the Commander-in-Chief . |
| 30 | His call has also been taken up over the past week by those with an interest in property , gleefully listing their own particular regional carbuncles ripe for demolition . |