Example sentences of "by [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll handle this by meself ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think I 'll be able to 'op back to the bedroom by meself , ’ said Dolly . |
| 3 | ‘ Am I goin' to be by meself ? ’ asked Dolly in disgust . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm goin' to be all by meself again ? ’ asked Dolly , her hair flooding the pillow with auburn . |
| 5 | And when 1 passed by thee and saw thee wallowing in thy blood , I said unto thee : in thy blood live … |
| 6 | And how did he come by thee ? ’ |
| 7 | As the work I do for Thee , and by Thee , |
| 8 | but not by thee my steps shall be , |
| 9 | Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge , as the Gods who all things know . |
| 10 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 11 | He was convinced he was being both watched and listened to ; by the Russians , if by no-one else . |
| 12 | The truly subservient prisoner is respected by no-one , staff or inmates . |
| 13 | She flattered herself this was done discreetly , and was noticed by no-one , though the yearning in her look as she gazed at him would be obvious to a child of five , and the staff made frequent jokes about her loving him with a love that made his life a burden . |
| 14 | Additionally , they feared the full development of a national health service , viewed by them as unacceptable socialism . |
| 15 | Therefore , informing consciences on the evil social consequences of divorce was seen by them to be of a similar standing to informing the consciences of catholic lay people on the sanctity and indissolubility of Christian marriage . |
| 16 | In 1978 , on the basis of their professional knowledge of schooling and civil administration , the organization succeeded in obtaining the necessary government permission to open in Dalkey a multi-denominational school governed principally by the parents , the mode of religious instruction to be determined by them . |
| 17 | I was very impressed by them , how to approach them . |
| 18 | Names , like words , in Hebrew are things ; they are not merely descriptive labellings , but possess a dynamic of their own which can be communicated to those touched by them . |
| 19 | Significantly , he adduced the work of the American poet Wallace Stevens at this point , a man torn between the profession of law and the poetic muse , whose view of lost faith and a ‘ disconnected ’ tradition imbued his poetry with a wistfulness and a challenge that was taken very seriously by Leonard and Layton ; or , perhaps , viewed by them as a satisfactory replacement . |
| 20 | Not merely welcomed among them , but escorted around the country by them to various literary and poetry events , and often presented to their confrères as their protégé . |
| 21 | A recollection of their work was given by Layton in an interview for the Canadian Theatre Revue in 1977 , in the wake of A Man Was Killed , the first play to be written by them , but tardily presented . |
| 22 | I felt revolted by them and began to sleep in the hall , dragging a pillow and a wool blanket off the bed and leaving the room to them , in the hope that they would understand my anger , that they would no longer stay till the early hours of the morning , stepping over me as I lay asleep , leaving overflowing ashtrays and empty glasses and cans and bottles strewn about the floor . |
| 23 | Has there ever been a tennis player that has written in to say ‘ thank you ’ to their fans who have stood by them through all their traumas and their losses , who have stood for hours in the rain or slept out in the streets to get a look at their idols ? |
| 24 | These muscles draw the arms to the sides , therefore all rowing exercises , pull-ups or pull-downs are performed by them . |
| 25 | People who were infected by them immediately became as men possessed ad out of their minds . |
| 26 | I see the whole chapter as a subtle but misconceived footnote to Crime and Punishment ; in these pages , instead of brushing past Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in his return upon the underground man , Dostoevsky has allowed himself to be obstructed by them , and the result is a Stavrogin who compounds Raskolnikov 's bracing himself to enter the police station ‘ as a man ’ and confess with Svidrigailov 's reaching out in all directions , including the far extremes of moral and physical debauchery , in the hope that something , it does n't matter what , will make him unbored . |
| 27 | That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ . |
| 28 | ( Pound had studied some of the same French poets , notably Laforgue and Rimbaud , but he had profited by them in a quite different way from Eliot , and he was averse to the central thrust of the symboliste endeavour , to which indeed the imagist or imagiste movement which he had sponsored had been intended as a challenging alternative . ) |
| 29 | Potential Labour voters are coming to accept that an increasingly confident ( but mercifully less cocky ) Neil Kinnock has rumbled the fundamentalists too , and is neither impressed nor cowed by them . |
| 30 | The people most affected by them — office workers and passers-by — have little or no influence on their design , and are dependent on the benevolence of the developer and on planning laws . |