Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 2 | They escaped the reaction of state authority , unlike the radicals of 1793–4 , because they did not pose a direct constitutional challenge , were composed of representatives primarily of the provincial , nonconformist middle and business classes and met in a political context judged less threatening by the authorities . |
| 3 | It can not even decide its own procedures ( and has been prevented from so doing by the Conseil Constitutionel ) . |
| 4 | They would be aided and abetted in so doing by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 5 | When he pulled up outside the Palace , Creed was already waiting by the entrance with McGowan , Trotter and Maxie Carlo ( still no sign of Vasco ) . |
| 6 | His mother and the governor of Cochin-China were already waiting by the entrance with the Resident Superior of Annam and his official suite of guests . |
| 7 | Okay , no it 's , I 'm just going by the one at school and it , because it 's all made up of little dots you |
| 8 | Right , but presumably if that , that work 's not just going by the board that 's , that 's right |
| 9 | Extra riding by the hour available . |
| 10 | The company had been well placed to take advantage of the 1960s consumer boom , and was already prospering by the time Horsley joined the Board in 1963 , at the age of twenty-nine . |
| 11 | The people sort of eight o'clock , nine , and there just congregating by the Health Service there , anything night and I think a lot of the trouble . |
| 12 | Roirbak was physically shaking by the time he 'd broken the connection with Jahsaxa . |
| 13 | A burly constable was already standing by the public telephone , and no-one so far had been sufficiently intrepid as to approach him . |
| 14 | In photographs I 'm already scowling by the time I 'm two : in an Argyle Street photographer 's studio , clutching a rubber doll , dressed in a tailored coat with a velvet collar and an enormous bow in my hair ; or paddling with my parents in the sea , somewhere off the coast of Ireland . |
| 15 | Rob is still driving and is soon steering by the tree tops since the mist is so dense . |
| 16 | The telephone was already ringing by the time Folly returned to the flat , and she had almost picked it up before realising that the only person likely to be ringing her was Luke . |
| 17 | While we were all getting ready for work one morning , a few days after the above conversation , one of the other girls ( Martha ) transferred a fifty-pound note from her handbag to the pocket of her apron , which was at that point still hanging by the door with everyone else 's . |
| 18 | Now , after further lobbying by the Specialist Car Manufacturers Group , the self-regulatory body which Caterham founded ( Mr Nearn is its chairman ) , a secondary legislation amendment has been drawn up , and is expected to pass this year , which will allow Caterham to manufacture up to 500 fully-built cars a year , under a low volume manufacturer classification . |
| 19 | Worse , Intel is likely to cut the price of its Pentium chip during the next two years — perhaps by one-third or more going by the firm 's past behaviour . |
| 20 | Its importance even in the Mediterranean , the sea which had given it birth , was rapidly declining by the later seventeenth century . |
| 21 | At eight , still waiting by the window , a second bulletin corrected one of the reports from the first . |
| 22 | She was always running by the end of this dream , running away from the house , uphill towards the railway line . |
| 23 | Another thought surfaced from the chaos in her mind — and stuck , looming larger and more unnerving by the moment . |
| 24 | Mary was still standing by the bed when her mother came into the room and , without looking at the bed , walked over to where grandfather kept his emergency money , usually about £1,000 . |
| 25 | Dad was still standing by the coffin and I whispered to him , ‘ Dad , can I have another look at my Granny ? ’ |
| 26 | I was still standing by the pool when I saw Tiare , who walked towards me from her parked car and asked , ‘ How are you settling in , Doctor ? |
| 27 | Kerrison was still standing by the body , rigid as a guard of honour . |
| 28 | She turned as she went in , and saw him still standing by the gate , waving . |
| 29 | Still standing by the window , he began to weep . |
| 30 | Nervous , she drifted away towards another couple still standing by the door . |