Example sentences of "[pers pn] by some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ Do you by some chance fail to follow me ? ’ |
| 2 | The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities . |
| 3 | She fixed a doubtful gaze on the whiskery young protester , willing him by some telepathy to keep back out of the way . |
| 4 | But all of them endorse one or the other of the principles of political neutrality mentioned above and seek to implement it by some variant of the following principles of restraint which limit the political relevance of ideals of the good . |
| 5 | With his old-fashioned grace Murphy even mentioned in at least two speeches that he wondered whether the World Cup , and the impassioned pursuit of it by some countries , was really a good thing after all . |
| 6 | I READ your reply to the £10 letter re medical treatment or the proposed determent of it by some doctors , and I was completely astounded by the lack of logic in the statement ‘ have helped themselves to get there . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ At this hour I imagine she 's fast asleep in bed — unless , like me , she 's been ripped out of it by some hooligan ! ’ |
| 8 | Their faces emanate a radiance , though whether he actually sees this with his eyes or knows it by some sort of deductive process he is not entirely sure . |
| 9 | In Britain it is doubtful whether the personal accountability of an MP seeking reelection has anything like the importance attached to it by some theorists . |
| 10 | As indicated above , the notion of a de facto authority depends on that of a legitimate authority since it implies not only actual power over people but , in the normal case , both that the person exercising that power claims to have legitimate authority and that he is acknowledged to have it by some people . |
| 11 | No unattached man , should he by some miracle present himself at Four Winds , would want to have anything to do with a dejected and increasingly agoraphobic young mother , still in her teens , and a baby whose fretfulness was beginning to get on even Harriet 's nerves . |
| 12 | A rough-coated collie called Tip , he was offered to me by some relatives down the dale whilst I still had Chip . |
| 13 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
| 14 | Robin Williams , Dead Poets Society : see Critic 's choice Virginia Mayo and James Cagney in Raoul Walsh 's classic 1949 production of White Heat … even movies as good as this ca n't live up to the praise lavished on them by some film reference books : see Critic 's choice Hear no equal , see no equal … |
| 15 | Accordingly , he considers that individuals have no procedural rights to participate in what are plainly policy decisions , beyond their right to participate periodically in the election of governments — unless , of course , such rights are specifically conferred on them by some statute . |