Example sentences of "[adv] to [pers pn] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 2 | It was brought home to me by the death of a friend 's dog last week . |
| 3 | What an extraordinary position has been reached in some Christian theology , such that it is thought , at least at a subconscious level , that somehow Christ and Mary are a pair , Christ male and representative of men , and Mary female and representative of women , was brought home to me by the following incident . |
| 4 | It was through this most improbable passage of Scripture , taken home to her by the Spirit , that she in due course became a Christian . |
| 5 | This fact was abruptly brought home to him by the commanding voice ringing through the gloom of the overcast evening . |
| 6 | Nanna wants to have all the er plants picked out of the greenhouse and erm have them all in the trays and up to us by the end of May before they go away on holiday . |
| 7 | As such , it has effected significant changes in some of the Bills sent up to it by the Commons . |
| 8 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 9 | You could get up to it by the stairs to the roof . |
| 10 | His brevet ( his flying wings in other words ) was situated some two or three inches above the pocket and when this error was pointed out to him by the more die-hard RAF characters he pointed out that the space was to make room for the VC , the DSO and the DFC . |
| 11 | I mean , if it 's pointed out to us by the lord we we try |
| 12 | My inability to unbelieve in him hung on to me by the jaws , as I ascended the corporate ladder . |
| 13 | Thorough research conducted by Newcastle polytechnic has been passed on to me by the Rev. Paul Nicholson , who has done sterling work to highlight the problems of those on income support . |