Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll happily pay my forfeit and sit here by the fire while you play . ’ |
| 2 | As the discussion followed between the now cosseted intruder and the male members of the small walking party which had found its grail at the lakeside Hotel , Miss Skelton was deferred to by her father , complimented by her mother , patted and plumped by her friends and avoided only by the chaplain , the Reverend Nicholson , who , Hope judged , was in love with her but too poor to press , too honourable to hotly pursue any claim . |
| 3 | Now he 's hoping to be back on the golf course soon and singing again by the end of the year . |
| 4 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 5 | The tradition of Anglo-Austrian co-operation against France , wearing thin in the time of Walpole and strained unbearably by the peace settlement of 1748 , was also submerged by the events of the 1750s . |
| 6 | The size of the fee was set and reviewed periodically by the government , for whom it was a useful source of leverage in the informal manoeuvrings typical of government — broadcaster relations . |
| 7 | Children presenting with acute respiratory infections were referred to the district hospital for chest radiography , and severely ill children were admitted to hospital , where they were treated by standard protocols , and monitored daily by the study physician . |
| 8 | In practice , I suspect that ‘ contracts ’ are arrived at as much by religious and ideological persuasion as by rational discourse , and maintained more by the threat of social ostracism than by legal restraint . |
| 9 | The soundproofing between its three sections is excellent and helped enormously by the fact that the PA system drops sound down from the ceiling rather than pushing it out from the front . |
| 10 | Clark had , however , made it clear that he did not wish to continue for a further term and , as a consequence of an Academic Board working party 's recommendation , a permanent post was created and filled externally by the appointment of the author . |
| 11 | It differs from the ordinary railway by using lightweight trains , calling at more convenient places and operating economically by the use of advanced technology now available for the custom-built rapid transit systems . |
| 12 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 13 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 14 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 15 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 16 | Soon the cat appeared , and enchanted anew by the sight beneath the door of little legs running hither and thither , began expertly to grope . |
| 17 | Costing around FFr10 million and financed jointly by the Ministry of Culture and Paris City Hall , the renovation will start in 1994 and should last two years . |
| 18 | Popov , 63 , had been nominated by President Zhelyu Zhelev with the endorsement of the participants in all-party negotiations on forming a government , and approved overwhelmingly by the GNA as Premier on Dec. 7 . |
| 19 | The throat is classed as that area running down the front of the neck and bounded vertically by the angles of the lower jaw . |
| 20 | Because a decline in the value of the pound against that of other currencies would aggravate the condition , the Government is constrained to try to maintain that value ; and to do so by the inducement of very high rates of interest . |
| 21 | Coleridge thought The Borderers ‘ absolutely wonderful ’ , and surrounded only by the distractions of friendship and a lovely , unfamiliar countryside , found time at Racedown to make progress with his own play , Wordsworth providing the necessary encouragement as well as some ‘ strict & almost severe ’ criticism . |
| 22 | One hundred and eighteen for three , which means thirty-nine runs added in the first hour today and it 's Tufnell coming up now to bowl , DaSilva , up he comes , bowls this one , DaSilva pushes forward and it just goes under the bat and fielded there by the wicketkeeper , no run . |
| 23 | These were highly prized and burnt only by the priests or priestesses during magical rites , worship of the gods or for healing purposes . |
| 24 | Murray was removed from the school council , demoted and warned sternly by the headmaster that such a betrayal of the community 's trust was also a betrayal of one 's best self , a suggestion whose subtlety he could not penetrate . |
| 25 | The fact that Bunn had both the guarantee and the charge drawn up and executed both by the husband and himself on Friday , 23 July , and his evidence that the wife 's attendance on the Monday was , so far as he was concerned , a mere formality , shows that all that remained was to get the wife 's signature in accordance with bank policy . |
| 26 | Even so , this is lush stuff indeed , well played by Ernö Rosza and accompanied acceptably by the Kosice State PO under Alfred Walter . |
| 27 | In exceptional cases proceedings were noted by hand and recorded verbally by the researcher upon return to base . |
| 28 | Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) chronicles the breakdown of a community of nuns set up in the Himalayas , riven by inner conflicts and pulled apart by the intrusion of romantic figures from outside . |
| 29 | The only light he could see was in the lobby , and the only person in the lobby was an anxious girl with a clipboard who was waiting to greet him personally , and who seemed personally grateful for his skill in getting himself found and driven there by the company 's chauffeur . |
| 30 | He was standing very close to her , his waist and hips only inches from her face and covered only by the towel wound sarongwise about his middle . |