Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sit down by the fire and tell me all about it . ’ |
| 2 | You sit down by the fire , you 're wet and cold . |
| 3 | The most convenient way to arrange this is to move HIMEM down by the length of the program and load the machine code program in to this protected area . |
| 4 | We were being given a marvellous send off by the people there but I was not too sure about the starting pistol that George McGuire was wielding though , maybe I would be put out of my misery sooner than I thought ! |
| 5 | To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home . |
| 6 | The weapons will start to arrive in December ; they are supposed to match the arms build up by the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Women have been randomly raped by individuals , gang-raped by uniformed men , and raped in detention centres either by the guards or people let in by the guards . |
| 8 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 9 | Many had begun by raging against it as angry young men or women and felt terribly let down by the failure of the Wilson government to make much of a dent in it . |
| 10 | Afterwards , she felt very much let down by the family 's decision , saying she would have preferred to die rather than live in such a disabled condition . |
| 11 | It is somewhat let down by the front of the headstock , which is covered in sanding marks , but in the company it keeps here it 's the exception rather than the rule . |
| 12 | Millions of mothers have been shamefully let down by the government which , 13 years ago under Margaret Thatcher , promised a nursery place for every child who wanted one . |
| 13 | Mr Clarke revealed the fresh job losses when he addressed the annual conference of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers in Weymouth , where he faced angry questions from delegates who feel badly let down by the corporation . |
| 14 | The study aims to present a descriptive account of election campaigning in Britain , considering in particular the use of new technology , and to assess the extent to which the outcome of the election was affected by the efforts put in by the parties and their volunteer workers in the constituencies . |
| 15 | It is the first time crews outside London have decided to cut themselves off from controllers and to accept only those calls put through by the police , the fire service , GPs , hospitals and the public . |
| 16 | loving 's got to stop Cut off by the |
| 17 | This figure includes skin divers , bathers and water skiers , people and vehicles cut off by the tide and casualties who had fallen from cliffs or man-made structures . |
| 18 | In my discussions with the police , it was one of the buildings we offered them , and I went with erm , the new inspector to look at that , and I still said they were somewhat put off by the cold austere sort of feeling of the place . |
| 19 | In the meantime , the hole in the road is reopened , and at 6pm the men line up by the side of the maypole , the band starts to play and the command to hoist it on to shoulders is given . |
| 20 | The People 's Militia has been busy ripping down posters put up by the Civic Forum in factories and elsewhere . |
| 21 | The People 's Militia has indeed been busy ripping down posters put up by the Civic Forum in factories and elsewhere . |
| 22 | Yes , c or another sign that they put up by the side of the road is was you passing this spot this time last week did you see anything . |
| 23 | A wide range of sources has been sifted to reconstruct the changing ideas and goals of the masses : private correspondence and letters to the press , contemporary reports in the metropolitan and local press and the myriad publications put out by the new organizations which sprang to life after February , memoirs and official reports , conference protocols and records of the countless resolutions passed in grass-roots meetings in the villages , at the factory gate , in soldiers ' committees and local soviets . |
| 24 | I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details . |
| 25 | Can he compare these facts about the national health service with the fictions put out by the Labour Front Bench ? |
| 26 | According to estimates put out by the Reuters news agency , however , interest payments alone would have amounted to almost US$10,000 million for the year . |
| 27 | Undiscouraged by its lack of welcome , the corpse returned upon the next tide to Looe Island , where , cut about by the rocks , the grisly spectacle finally came to rest well to the windward of the select Hannafore part of the town . |
| 28 | This raises the interesting possibility that Mancini 's insistence that Edward IV wanted his brother to be protector also derives from a version of events put about by the duke after he had seized the prince and was seeking recognition as protector . |
| 29 | Was it directed at the restaurants of Chichester or Glyndebourne ? — calling for two 16-oz. cans of spaghetti in tomato sauce , 9 oz. of plain flour and 6 oz. of shredded suet ( put about by the Atora Suet Bureau ) are also uncommon . |
| 30 | Pernicious tales put about by the likes of Rose Taillé and her layabout son . |