Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 2 | Louis XIV and his admirals had , meanwhile , after the Battle of La Hogue , licensed numerous ‘ corsairs ’ to make a nuisance of themselves in the Channel and North Sea , some of whom , actually held naval rank and had guns — up to 50 or 60 in the larger ships — lent them by the French navy . |
| 3 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 4 | Some foul glutinous thing got me by the legs and ankles . |
| 5 | He was pulling him , trying to get him off me — he threw him — he just threw him at the bed — I knew he was all right , he were screaming but I could n't — they were both screaming , Cathy and Gary both , and he got me by the throat . |
| 6 | They could still manage Abends , wenn wir schlafen gehen , taught them by the nuns as a party piece , and then , indeed , they sounded like angels , though angels without much grasp of the words after the second line . |
| 7 | There 're so many wild oranges on the island that when they 're ripe the boys and girls go out in gangs , pick them by the thousand , squeeze out all the juice and let it ferment in casks until it 's ready for a week-long celebration . |
| 8 | The amount of serum given had to balance with the amount given me by the Pharmacist from the records she kept of that given to Ward Sisters for use on the wards . |
| 9 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 10 | Later on I produced a medical certificate , given me by the doctor , stating that my father was ill and that Saturdays and Sundays were the only days of the week I was at home and could help my mother look after him . |
| 11 | Similarly , just as when expectations of inflation were zero actual inflation of 5 per cent might sufficiently fool workers to generate an unemployment rate of 3 per cent , now , if expectations of inflation are 5 per cent , actual inflation would need to be 10 per cent to fool them by the same amount as before and hence generate the same unemployment rate of 3 per cent . |
| 12 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 13 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 14 | WITH the forthcoming visit by the South Africans looming large , the RFU have taken the opportunity given them by the All Black and Wallaby tours to South Africa to get in some early homework on the Boks . |
| 15 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |
| 16 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 17 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 18 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 19 | You can also recognise them by the round yellow bill patch . |
| 20 | The Medau Society has them by the hundred — nay , by the thousand — and they have to be kept in order . |
| 21 | He pushed his horse nearer and grasped me by the arm , his long dark face , usually solemn , wreathed in smiles . |
| 22 | She grasped me by the hand . |
| 23 | He grasped me by the shoulder . |
| 24 | Benjamin grasped me by the arm . |
| 25 | Blind , deaf , but able to smell ; able to find them by the food smell , even in this raging , wind-swept , rain-driven night … |
| 26 | Rather more , including Pike , came to shake me by the hand and ask me detailed and unanswerable questions about the nature of the extraterrestrials who had landed in the Wimbledon area . |
| 27 | It just caught me by the scruff of the neck and practically hammered my guts out . |
| 28 | I want to get summat else to play with and I try and get up , but Peter holds me by the arm . |
| 29 | Insults apart , the kernel of the argument was that , whereas More considered the Scriptures to be committed to the Pope and hierarchy for interpretation , Tyndale believed that they belonged to every Christian , who would be guided in understanding them by the spirit of God . |
| 30 | I had the almost childish impression that if we kept within the pools of light everything would be fine but , beyond the flames , shadows lurked and powers even darker waited to catch you by the throat . |