Example sentences of "[vb past] it by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went past Bart 's Hospital and entered it by way of Barley Mow passage on the west . |
| 2 | I weighed it by priority . |
| 3 | And we only found it by chance , you know how you go off to think oh I 'll , I 'll go and find a coffee or something , and we found this restaurant at lunch time and had a coffee there and we looked at the menu and , you know , we , we could n't believe it ! |
| 4 | We just found it by chance . |
| 5 | She picked it up , trembling with fatigue , and inspected it by touch and audition alone . |
| 6 | He almost ruined it by parking right up behind me and flashing his headlights once . |
| 7 | I learnt it by heart and pray it often : |
| 8 | SUNDERLAND ambulanceman Ian Archbold played it by ear last night to win the North-East Championships 10,000 metres in convincing style at the Cleveland County Stadium , Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | ( b ) If a first person owes the victim a sum of money , the accused forges an assignment from the victim to him , and the first person pays the accused , the accused has stolen property ( and obtained it by deception ) . |
| 10 | She heard herself saying : ‘ I opened it by accident , see . ’ |
| 11 | There was an atmosphere everywhere of intense relief , and people expressed it by dancing , singing , bonfires , flags , balloons and general rejoicing . |
| 12 | Until they supplemented it by jadeite from Burma during the eighteenth century , the Chinese relied on nephrite . |
| 13 | Moreover , to a very great extent bourgeois morality was actually applied ; indeed it may have become increasingly effective as the masses of the ‘ respectable ’ working classes adopted the values of the hegemonic culture , and the lower middle classes , which followed it by definition , grew in numbers . |
| 14 | POLICE are fingerprinting the tip of a 66,000year-old stalactite stolen from caves at Powys , Wales — after the repentant thief returned it by post . |
| 15 | ‘ He discovered it by chance about thirty years ago , when his yacht ran in for shelter from a storm . ’ |
| 16 | In 1861 another private company founded the Great Northern Cemetery at Colney Hatch and served it by rail from King 's Cross . |
| 17 | No one arranged it by length or by colour , there was no attempt to market the products , ’ Liza Wanklyn remembers vividly . |
| 18 | I think she started it by accident . |
| 19 | You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident . |
| 20 | In contrast , the charter party bill of lading did not contain the charter party contract , but incorporated it by reference . |
| 21 | They skirted the palm-fringed swimming-pool which appeared to have been hewn out of solid coral-stone , and crossed it by means of a wooden bridge suspended above two huge boulders . |
| 22 | I 'm surprised they sent it by courier , he said he was going to drop them in , mind , there 's another one , a big one to come , this is only a small one . |
| 23 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 24 | He rediscovered it by chance . |
| 25 | He found an empty first-class compartment , and she reached it by way of the corridor after the train had pulled out . |
| 26 | Government forces reached it by dinghy , as part of an attack which the LTTE said was accompanied by heavy and indiscriminate shelling and bombing over Jaffna . |
| 27 | When it was fully clear of the cave , three of the hunters then simultaneously seized it by head , tail and centre and held it straight enough to feed head-first into an open sack held by the fourth man . |
| 28 | But he had written his book — the people in Glasgow and Paisley knew it by heart , nearly — now it was up to themselves . |
| 29 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 30 | So we turned up and the fellow had the opportunity , therefore , of hearing his concerto played off by little Wolfgang as if he knew it by heart … |