Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had long intended making this proposition to the Secretary of State , but I was urged sooner to it perhaps because I felt that I was reduced in circumstances and thrown from my position in Society , and I hoped by a grand effort to establish a permanent claim on the consideration of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 2 | Reports are coming in , some of them confirmed by an independent observer , of large-scale destruction in Bosnia , not only of mosques and monuments ( see The Art Newspaper No. 19 , June 1992 , p.1 ) but also of places of learning , together with the books , archives and manuscripts contained therein . |
| 3 | She tiptoed by a well-mown lawn , then a garden jumbled high with broken washing machines , bicycles , empty flowerpots and scraps of wood . |
| 4 | Special effects , including pattern fills and shadows you handled by a separate program which also lets you view and print your fonts . |
| 5 | We stopped by an empty building and disentangled ourselves from each other . |
| 6 | They lived by a simple code : do what the hell you liked , do it together , but be loyal to the King Rat . |
| 7 | If they drove by an indirect route , that could be anywhere ; right in the heart of London or up to fifty miles in any direction . |
| 8 | They walked by a large gate and an enormous , neatly-kept garden . |
| 9 | Several clubs have made it to the quarter final , but all have faltered , the most notable being Darlington , when they lost by a single goal to HFS Loans League side Leek Town two years ago . |
| 10 | They travelled by a short stairway from the morning room , up into a narrow corridor carved with horses ' heads . |
| 11 | The real issue with the voters was de Gaulle himself , and the General reinforced that perception by warning that he would resign if the proposed change was rejected or even if it passed by a slim majority . |
| 12 | He stopped by a book-lined alcove to remove his tie completely and to get some air . |
| 13 | In March it dropped by a full percentage point , its biggest drop for more than two years . |
| 14 | On Wednesday night Linfield were out of the competition , beaten fairly it seemed by an aggregate score of 3-2 and facing a loss of around £15,000 on the failed European venture . |
| 15 | After seeing his 1853 bill side-tracked by a Royal Commission , Lord St Leonards was moving the second reading of another debtor and creditor bill in the House of Lords in 1859 , but once again many of their lordships found it all too complicated , and wanted it examined by a select committee . |
| 16 | You could n't say he lost by a short head — he was n't even in the frame ! |
| 17 | In biology , Richard Owen — who had led the conservative assault on Lamarckism in the 1830s — now accepted evolution , but insisted that it worked by a preordained process of ‘ derivation ’ . |
| 18 | I found it preoccupied by a little company of artists , either professional or amateur , who made use of the rainy day by camping in the coach-house to sketch from its shelter a fine group of trees , with some good foreground rock and bracken , all within a stone-throw of the cottage . |
| 19 | From the point of view of the development of political sociology in relation to the politics of gender however , the radical critique of behaviourism — much of it influenced by a Marxist perspective — did not go far enough . |
| 20 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |