Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 2 | When she had been here three days a man had trailed up the stairs , let in by another tenant , hammering on her door . |
| 3 | PUT DOWN BY ONE LINE |
| 4 | Mr Mukhametshin has been repeatedly let down by Russian suppliers , which in turn forces Anis to let down foreign customers . |
| 5 | The sad part about the whole sorry affair is that you appear to have been badly let down by those who by rights ought to feel indebted to you , but with the Sun in Aries and that part of your solar chart related to affairs of the heart you are bound to win some kind of moral victory , and even if you do decide to make a settlement this month you should still feel you really have much to celebrate . |
| 6 | Peppered with infinitely quotable one-liners and featuring some seriously over-the-top set-pieces , Lehmann 's film is a relentless attack on the vacuous youth of America , let down by some lame moralising in the last 30 seconds . |
| 7 | But Prudential finance director Michael Lawrence says that the bids put in by all the firms on the tender shortlist were ‘ virtually all of an allness on fees ’ . |
| 8 | The responsible USSR ministries were to ensure uninterrupted transport through Lithuania , especially to the major Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and to Kaliningrad , a strategically important exclave of the Russian Federation on the Baltic coast , cut off by Lithuanian territory from the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | They encountered no difficulties en route , although they had to traverse one of the most dangerous ambush points in all South Scotland , at Pease Dean , where the Lammermuirs came directly down to the coast in steep wooded slopes cut up by deep ravines , and round which travellers had to wend their narrow , devious way . |
| 10 | Bournville and New Earswick were followed by other estates put up by Industrial Housing Associations such as Lever Brothers at Port Sunlight , and many more recent ones , to the present number of about fifty-four . |
| 11 | ‘ Your Grace , I am most anxious and deeply troubled by the rumours put about by evil men . |
| 12 | Optical-fibre cable kinked , snarled in bushes , run over by other vehicles too short to reach control centre . |
| 13 | Four out of five US resellers who carry Unix software estimate their Unix sales will increase by a average of 49% for the period 1991 to 1993 and are planning to expand their wares , according to ‘ A Study Conducted Among Unix and Unix-Related Product Resellers ’ run up by New Jersey-based Ralph Head & Affiliates . |
| 14 | . Well I expect we ought to go over , do some work got you a loaf , but I did n't get nothing else , if we just pop round by Swiss Bakery . |
| 15 | The classical legends set down by ancient Greek poets like Homer referred to a number of gods , under their leader Zeus , supposedly located on Mount Olympus , who made occasional forays onto the human scene in various human or animal disguises . |
| 16 | Darlington 's Conservative MP , Michael Fallon , said : ‘ It is far more important to get the valuations right rather than fulfil time limits set down by local councils . ’ |
| 17 | The system ought to be to attempt to guess , or find out by other means , the numbers that other people are less likely to put down . |
| 18 | TAKARE , the nursing-homes group which has three establishments in Scotland , saw 1992 pre-tax profits soar by by 56 per cent , from £7.6 million to £11.8 million , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 19 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 20 | Go over by all means , but do watch the tides . |
| 21 | The numbers go up by successive doublings , from 8 to 16 , 32 , 64 , 128 , 256 , 512 , 1,024 , 2,048 , 4,096 , 8,192 . |
| 22 | Fares go up by 10 per cent in February . |
| 23 | If AUTO is used on its own , the line numbers will start at 10 and go up by 10 for each line . |
| 24 | Unleaded petrol and diesel go up by five pence to a gallon , but Leaded petrol is up by ten pence a gallon . |
| 25 | I think also , the people of Wiltshire will be glad that it us here setting the budget , and therefore the precept and their council tax next year , and something that people will be looking at is their council tax bills , and noting that they go up by six point three percent , or are proposed to , with the provisional assets aim which is set by the government . |
| 26 | Income tax thresholds and allowances go up by six point eight per cent . |
| 27 | Some evening she and Andrew would separate on the halfway landing and go up by different flights to meet and kiss at the top . |
| 28 | Come in by 8.30 Monday morning ’ . |
| 29 | He did n't say , ‘ Right , men — come in by twos , line up facing east and bang your foreheads on the floor ! ’ |
| 30 | As new syntactic categories settle down by innovative accretion along the lines suggested , the complex mesh of grammatical relations becomes the cloth of an ever-changing community coat . |