Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] by a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 2 | British portraiture from 1660 to 1960 charted brilliantly by a relay of scholars |
| 3 | A struggling Swan was summarily ejected , helped on by a boot up the backside on the part of the Party 's chief agent . |
| 4 | Somehow , Dai , goaded on by a blend of Bernard 's impatience and supervision , got them working . |
| 5 | There was n't anything I could do and , knowing that , I was conscious of my own inadequacy , weighed down by a sense of helplessness . |
| 6 | In gale force winds , and weighed down by a camera around her neck , she just missed bringing us back a prize but she managed to capture some winning shots . |
| 7 | Sears put on 2 to 92p , helped along by a couple of brokers ' recommendations . |
| 8 | Stage 4 is the familiar multiplier , only this time triggered off by a change in imports and exports . |
| 9 | The idea of a political kingdom was something as easily understood then as now : a territory ruled over by a king to whom its citizens are subject . |
| 10 | nipples ripped off by a doberman on acid ? |
| 11 | They amount to no net tax increase in the coming year , but thereafter very substantial tax increases : £6.5 billion in 1994/5 and £1O.5 billion in 1995/6 financed mainly by a combination of freezing income tax allowances , a 1 per cent increase in National Insurance contributions for employees ( in reality a form of income tax ) and extension tax of value-added tax to domestic fuel . |
| 12 | My gut , after a period of glorious dependability on a diet of potatoes , was bailing everything out again , spurred on by a meal of Lomo ( pork ) a lo Gordon Blyed from Puno International Restaurant . |
| 13 | Norman Askew , 59 , of Victoria Avenue , Redcar , knocked down by a car near St.Bede 's School , Marske on Monday has since died in hospital from the head injuries he received in the accident . |
| 14 | As with the arrangements for exhibitions , it is recommended that firstly the agreement of the responsibly body is sought , followed up by a discussion with the headmaster and janitor/caretaker about the specific needs for the meeting . |
| 15 | In the Neolithic period , totalitarian states emerged as a result of the reappearance of profound inequalities made possible by the acquisition of agricultural surpluses , whereas in the modern epoch most of the comparable states emerged out of periods of revolution and upheaval constituted mainly by a struggle for equality — a fact that has had the odd consequence of leaving all modern police states with official ideologies strongly committed to a non-existent freedom and egalitarianism for their citizens . |
| 16 | To clean up this mess , a spanking new chemical-waste treatment plant , capable of handling up to 100,000 tonnes of waste a year has just been built by Environpace , a group owned mainly by a subsidiary of Waste Management , an American company . |
| 17 | The scraggy neck and brutally squared and misshapen breasts put one in mind of an old woman , worked over by a lifetime of misfortune . |
| 18 | My curiosity had ceased , swallowed up by a kind of dreamy awe which from that day increased in me very greatly . |
| 19 | Modelled on claret and made from Cabernet Sauvignon with Syrah and Cinsault thrown in , there 's a ripe fruitiness to this well-balanced wine , pepped up by a shake of spice . |
| 20 | The sponsors are offering 4–7 about Granville Again , with Morley Street , sharpened up by a win on the Flat at Doncaster , available at 5–4 . |
| 21 | I added quickly , as the appalled expression of a visitor singled out by a pastor in an evangelical church for ‘ spontaneous prayer ’ flashed over his face . |
| 22 | Satellite communications provide a way round this , and now Iridium Inc — a company founded recently by a consortium of companies including Motorola Inc — is to place a constellation of 66 satellites around the earth , costing $3,000m , for a commercial service that is expected to span the globe by 1998 . |
| 23 | Satellite communications provide a way round this , and now Iridium Inc — a company founded recently by a consortium of companies including Motorola Inc — is to place a constellation of 66 satellites around the earth , costing $3bn , for a commercial service that is expected to span the globe by 1998 . |
| 24 | With a sense of endlessness contained only by a sense of the sea beyond , the earth slopes and drops away from one 's eyes in charcoal heaps of volcanic ash . |
| 25 | The effect will be as if fraudulent conversion were widened to include the whole of larceny and embezzlement ; the new offence will indeed include conduct which may not be criminal under the present law such as the dishonest appropriation by a parent of things taken and brought home by a child under the age of criminal responsibility ( cf. |
| 26 | An illuminating example of this kind of recognition on the part of teachers is provided by a lengthy continuation sheet clipped to one of the returned questionnaires and sent back by a member of one of the departments . |
| 27 | Its conically-roofed tower , hugged about by a brood of smaller roofs shaped like candle snuffers , is visible for miles . |
| 28 | I prevailed with the gaoler ( the sheriff denying me ) to take some of the seamen that I thought most dangerous [ i.e. the likeliest to try to escape ] a week ago , and , notwithstanding the strength of the place , from a turret … four men slipped away by a cord in a minute … |
| 29 | Recession is guaranteed for several months to come by higher taxes , higher interest rates and an exchange rate depressed both by a squeeze on the supply of local currency and by a surfeit of dollars from the booming trade in cocaine paste . |
| 30 | The engine of The Abbott sounded deafening in the silence , the loud spluttering replaced rapidly by a rumble as the boat moved away from the pier . |