Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I remember , one afternoon , going out with the whole of the rating committee , to houses at Eastwood and Beeston , and other places , and m in effect measuring them by counting how many nine inch bricks they were across the front and back , to make sure that , you know , nobody was subsidizing anybody else . |
| 2 | Allegedly unhappy about the sanitation and the cockroaches but by his own admission surprising himself by pining for ‘ Kensington , Belgravia , phone boxes and iron railings ’ , Lawrence returned to Blighty and spent an extended sojourn in Windsor , where he assembled Denim around him . |
| 3 | Lying on a pallet in the downstairs chamber , the deceased woman laid out upstairs , the only sounds came from the cat cleaning itself by the hearth and an owl hooting raucously outside . |
| 4 | With regard to sending mail to your grandson addressing him by his old surname , you are fully entitled to address him as you choose . |
| 5 | ‘ I heard another teacher calling you by it just before we came in , ’ Matilda said . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that Nizan 's gaze eventually alighted on the French communist party , a source of ideological certainty , a small community defending itself by rigid discipline against the fluidity , compromise and unreliability of centrist politics in Third Republic France . |
| 7 | Yer 've no right judging 'er by Patrick . |
| 8 | There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm . |
| 9 | ‘ … shall not be treated as due to the fault of the person suffering it by reason only that he could have prevented it by fencing ; but [ the defendant ] is not liable … where it is proved that the straying of the livestock on to the land would not have occurred but for a breach by any other person , being a person having an interest in the land , of a duty to fence . ’ |
| 10 | The Ventral Sympathetic Nervous System ( Fig. 64 ) , when typically developed ( Zawarsin , 1924 ) , consists of a pair of transverse nerves associated with each ganglion of the ventral nerve-cord ; each pair is connected with the ganglion preceding it by a median longitudinal nerve . |
| 11 | She remembered dinner , then dancing with Jack Butler , Annie saying something to her , a nun taking her by the arm . |
| 12 | Did you hear about the plastic surgeon warming himself by the fire ? |
| 13 | The prospect of disruption to supplies prompted panic food buying which by the afternoon of Oct. 26 emptied shelves in Budapest and other cities . |
| 14 | Was that was that hot air balloon following you by any chance ? |
| 15 | The gulls can see the help and benefit they receive from Iago 's service , but can not see , or conceive , that Iago could be benefiting himself at the same time ; and no one could possibly see that Iago is in fact benefiting himself by destroying them . |
| 16 | In a personal injury action where the plaintiff prepares the summons it may now be served by the plaintiff 's solicitor sending it by first class post to the defendant at the address stated in the summons under Ord 7 , r10A . |
| 17 | A nine-year-old boy and his sister , 11 , who live with their grandparents in Reading , Berks are trying to stop their mother embarrassing them by turning up drunk at the school gates . |
| 18 | Laundrettes are fast disappearing anyway , and you can not spend your time washing everything by hand . |