Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] by [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | that was taught me by my grandmother , Annie Scanlon . |
2 | Twenty years later , Charles reminded an assembly of how " a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father … and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor . |
3 | How did young Bruce become Uncle Bruce , to use the saucy sobriquet given me by my ever ebullient fellow presenter Richard Wyatt . |
4 | Surely these workers are provided with Health and Safety equipment and should they not be made to wear them by someone in authority ? |
5 | Judge them by their product and not their individual personalities . |
6 | I judge them by their racial characteristics . |
7 | ‘ Then judge them by their acts , Magnificence , and do not listen to what they say . ’ |
8 | She had discovered , too , one good source of decent clothing : periodically , churches and chapels would hold a sale of garments given them by their better-off parishioners . |
9 | We are fortunate to have men of such commitment and expertise amongst us and we need to support them by our prayers . |
10 | Nevertheless , she had deep and peaceful eyes , and when she passed me by she only smiled ; she asked me for nothing . |
11 | The rules of the game are that each person is allowed to turn over two cards and , if they are the same , to withdraw them and place them by their side . |
12 | ‘ I do n't like to tell people , ’ she laughs , ‘ but I can recognise them by their smell . |
13 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
14 | People in the street , who knew that I was engaged in negotiations , would come up to me , grab me by my lapels and say , ‘ Get an agreement , we beg you . |
15 | If someone said oh we do n't want two pipes it 's a bit messy , take them out and replace them by one that had the same resistance , that lets the same amount of water through , what would you replace those by ? |
16 | I love you , I need you , I want you by my side for all eternity . |
17 | He wrote with her pen and kept the little envelope filled with notes she used to write him by his side . |
18 | ‘ Hi , ’ said Lydia , suppressing an urge to apostrophise him by his calling . |
19 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
20 | Rory , who had been told to trust him by his father , never pressed him . |
21 | The blue should have reminded her of his flaming , instead of entrancing her by its own beauty , the beauty which had seemed to be utter and complete in itself . |
22 | His basic idea was to empty arteries and veins of their blood and replace it by something ‘ fluid enough when it is injected to run into the branches of the vessels , will afterwards quickly grow hard ’ . |
23 | Their view of the seriousness of Iraq 's action , and the reaction it demanded , was different enough from Mr Bush 's to scupper talk of global partnerships and replace it by what might be called contingent leadership . |
24 | You can recognise it by its bright and distinctive orange rind , and you wo n't forget its delightfully mellow flavour . |
25 | Grab it by its nostrils and you can lead even the most awkward blighter around , meek as anything . ’ |
26 | Julie , who 's 26 , says , ‘ I keep it in my bag when I 'm at work , and often place it by my bed at night . ’ |
27 | ‘ He was supposed to meet us by himself . |
28 | She had gathered plenty of heather and bracken for a warm bed ; she had made a fishing line from the hem of her dress , and caught some codling from the rocks to dry and smoke ; she had gathered mussels and cockles , and dried them by her fire . |
29 | So you judged them by their cars , or their holidays , their taste in music , television or the theatre . |
30 | These reforms have encouraged some historians to see the Despensers as ‘ much more than greedy and irresponsible favourites ’ , but their contemporaries judged them by their behaviour towards other landowners and by their position at court , rather than by their responsibility , however great it was , for what were essentially technical reforms in government . |