Example sentences of "[pron] by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secrets are not confined to the great houses of antiquity : Mr Merdle in Little Dorrit has his own new secrets , and is uneasy beneath the eye of his butler in his new London palace : ‘ He would have clasped himself by the wrists in that constabulary manner of his , and have paced up and down the hearth-rug , or gone creeping about among the rich objects of furniture , if his oppressive retainer had appeared in the room at that very moment . ’ |
| 2 | This rhetoric was offered to make sense of a changing society , which by the mid-1980s resulted from Conservative economic policy . |
| 3 | The British Parliament is therefore being asked to ratify a Treaty which by the terms of the Treaty of Rome is defunct and which Denmark is likely to wish to see fundamentally changed . |
| 4 | He had her by the arms before she could move , his face like granite as he glared down at her . |
| 5 | Before she could move he had her by the shoulders , his furious eyes blazing down at her . |
| 6 | And then , secondly t to just sort of mention the erm perhaps the more traditional ways of of working with people once they 've been sent to you by the courts . |
| 7 | You may be lucky and that necessary little twist may be given to you by the workings of intuition . |
| 8 | cor he said your early , I said yes , so are you by the looks of it , got a fiver and you 've had that much out of it . |
| 9 | Just one question was asked to each of the chosen seven : How heavily influenced are you by the sentiments of groups like The Smiths and do you think that a record like that is capable of causing a drastic change in your attitudes to a subject like vegetarianism ? |
| 10 | I remember once I took you by the shoulders and said , ‘ Listen , love , I 'm talking to you about your mother . ’ |
| 11 | You could be you could be lured into a position where if , if the management had you by the tails , thinking along the same line , then you could never be an efficient , you know , negotiator . |
| 12 | ‘ Prevention and Cure ’ is the theme of this exclusive competition brought to you by the makers of PR Freeze Spray and PR Heat Spray . |
| 13 | In the past , such a sweeping move would have taken the form of a peremptory decree , but the new parliament is committed to doing everything by the rules . |
| 14 | The governing body of the agency is the board of directors consisting of eleven members , all appointed by parliament , but five of them are appointed pursuant to the recommendation of the following bodies , namely : the organizations dealing with the environment , one by the trade unions , one by the employers ' organization , one by Social Security , and one by the various organizations presently dealing with state assets . |
| 15 | Two sets of skid marks were found afterwards — one by the wheels of a car , the other by the truck before the driver went through the barrier and was killed . |
| 16 | I remember buying a record by Bernard Cribbins and one by the Turtles in a Battle Of The Bands series . |
| 17 | The Southall Community faced two invasions on that day one by the fascists and one by the police , with over 700 arrests and 342 charged . |
| 18 | There was nothing for it but for the two young men themselves to go to Lucy 's aid so , clearing their minds of any impure notions , they darted forward and seized her humming body , one by the shoulders , the other by the knees . |
| 19 | The Southall Community faced two invasions on that day one by the fascists and one by the police , with over 700 arrests and 342 charged . |
| 20 | She was in the back row , lifted higher than anybody by the boys on either side of her . |
| 21 | ‘ He strongly disagrees with what was said about him by the Accounts Commission , ’ Mr Tait added . |
| 22 | Tim will be buried in the Everton shorts along with a signed Everton shirt given to him by the members of his favourite team . |
| 23 | Mr Hikmatyar , whose strength springs largely from the favours shown him by the Americans and Pakistanis in the 1980s , is now ‘ prime minister-designate ’ of Afghanistan . |
| 24 | He stood there like an idiot as she clasped him by the arms and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 25 | Collected Poems 1909–1935 provoked a respectful response from the critics , although there was a sense in which Eliot was now being taken for granted ; he had been assimilated , after something of a struggle against him by the purveyors of contemporary taste , and could quietly become a monument standing unnoticed by the roadside . |
| 26 | The head , operating under powers delegated to him by the governors , would set up criteria for the policy and appoint one of the staff to run the scheme . |
| 27 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
| 28 | Reagan gave replies which were videotaped to 159 questions put to him by the lawyers of his former National Security Adviser , Rear Admiral John Poindexter , whose trial was due to open in Washington DC on March 5 . |
| 29 | Their response to the Lord Chancellor 's green papers , sent to him by the Judges ' Council , broke a long-standing convention that the judges made no comment as a group on proposed changes in the law . |
| 30 | She instantly jumped into the boat in which her father was seated , and seizing him by the breasts of his coat , motioned him to return to the shore . |