Example sentences of "[subord] [subord] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as she began to believe that men could be gentle , caring and sensitive , such men appeared as if by magic ! |
| 2 | Moonlight bathed her , as though by design . |
| 3 | Seconds later they were engulfed in a seething torrent of water that appeared as though by magic . |
| 4 | As though by magic virtually every chador cloak and hejab headdress had disappeared , the women having changed into smart dresses and tailored suits in the privacy of the toilets . |
| 5 | No storm mist shrouding the slopes , no rain , no lightning stabbing , no thunder rumbling , the clouds all swept away as though by magic , the sky blue , the mountains looking quite serene now , almost kindly in the late afternoon light . |
| 6 | The fatigue of the long traumatic night fell away from him , as though by magic . |
| 7 | Often as they talked he kept his gaze on her face , looking into her eyes , and as she stood with her hands on the handlebars of her bicycle his hand often covered hers as though by accident . |
| 8 | The weapon in Mr Cottle 's hand had become a long , loosely coiled spring , lit from within as though by moonlight . |
| 9 | This effect can vitiate scientific observation , as when seventeenth century experimenters , familiar with the concepts of post-Galilean mechanics but not of electrostatic attraction and repulsion , regularly reported observing chaff falling as though by gravitation , or mechanically rebounding from the electrified bodies which attracted them . |