Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had stopped raining by the time they drew into the courtyard at Headquarters . |
| 2 | The girls only stopped laughing by the time they had reached the convent gates . |
| 3 | In the corner of one of the courts a small figure of Queen Nefertari is depicted standing by the feet of a colossus . |
| 4 | The need for such longitudinal research into the structure of career opportunities is made pressing by the present and likely future decline in promotion opportunities in the UK . |
| 5 | She looked at them one by one ; she nodded to the people she had seen sewing by the fountain ; she smiled at the old woman and the boy . |
| 6 | Arising from this , I was offered coaching by the College coach ; I think his name was Pearse , and he was one of Dan Maskel 's assistants at Queen 's Club . |
| 7 | He pleads not guilty to murder but opening the prosecution at Liverpool Crown Court , Rodney Klevan QC said : ‘ Paula was found hanging by the neck from a rope . |
| 8 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 9 | She did not pay the £600 for renewal of her patent and the day after it was due was ordered by magistrates to be detained in the county lunatic asylum at Caxlodge , near Newcastle , having been found wandering by the police . |
| 10 | This indicates how the proponents of ‘ law and order ’ have picked up and run with the ball that was set rolling by the Justice Model , with very different effects from those that the Justice Model 's original advocates desired or expected . |
| 11 | It is fairly well known that Martin bought the Swedish Levin Guitar factory in the 1970s and that Levin had ceased trading by the end of that decade . |
| 12 | Jackie had finished racing by the time I got involved in the sport , but it is utterly fitting that this collection of drivers ' portraits should begin with Jackie : not only because he was a great champion , not just because he changed the course of the sport , but because he 's really never been away . |
| 13 | From then on , anything that loiters in front of the entrance runs a risk of being knocked flying by the owner of the den exiting at high speed . |
| 14 | Five Hull defenders were left trailing by the youngster 's electrifying pace and change of direction as he scorched his way to the line . |
| 15 | We do not always dismiss him when he is left trailing by the brilliant or the powerful . |
| 16 | Investigations of this kind reveal something of the structure of poverty by indicating those who were kept going by the poor rate , the only eighteenth-century tax which was redistributive . |
| 17 | The turbulence is being kept going by the working of this against the mean velocity gradient . |
| 18 | Unlike the circulatory system , in which the circulation of the blood is controlled by the pumping of the heart , the lymph is usually kept moving by the normal contraction and relaxation of the muscles during physical activity . |
| 19 | This means that the process of totalization must be kept moving by the critical investigation itself on which it comes to depend but which by the same token it can never subsume . |
| 20 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 21 | The act of marriage or recognizing an uncle is both a symbolic act within the formal discourse and a practical act given meaning by the less formal level of discourse . |