Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] she by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board . |
| 2 | The Queen 's speech at the opening of parliament is of course written for her by the government of the day . |
| 3 | Another is a concerto written for her by the British composer Derek Bourgeois . |
| 4 | Nothing came for her by the first post . |
| 5 | She also became a celebrated beauty through the depictions made of her by the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron [ q.v. ] and the painters Brown , D. G. Rossetti , Burne-Jones , and Val Prinsep [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | On Dec. 31 , 1989 , Aquino announced sweeping Cabinet changes in an attempt to deal with some of the charges made against her by the rebel soldiers , with nine new appointees taking over key government posts [ see p. 37121 ] . |
| 7 | Like Hannah she is angry at the ideal presented to her by the advertising world , as she feels it has nothing to do with her , yet still has the power to make her feel dissatisfied . |
| 8 | JANET Broadbent with the marketing award certificate presented to her by The Catering Guild . |
| 9 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
| 10 | The photographer would be waiting for her by the exhibition stand in twenty minutes or so . |
| 11 | Which particular set of such properties are attributed to her by the utterance of ( 34 ) are at least in part dependent on the contexts of utterance : said by an admirer it may be a commendation , conveying the properties of toughness and resilience ; said by a detractor it may be taken as a denigration , conveying her lack of flexibility , emotional impassivity or belligerence . |
| 12 | And his ecstasy had soon become her ecstasy , an electrochemical fuel that had ignited in her , burning away all the taint of that earlier false frenzy enforced on her by the Harlequin man . |
| 13 | Cathy Carne had a letter handed to her by the lawyer . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , ’ she replied smilingly , and did n't need him to wait with her by the lift or to see her safely inside . |
| 15 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 16 | The visit to the bank by the wife after undue influence had been exercised upon her by the husband was purely a matter of formality of signing the document which had been retained at the bank and which was done without any kind of advice in the presence of a junior member of the staff . |
| 17 | He was driven towards her by the heat in his blood . |
| 18 | She had engaged a young girl , only fourteen years of age , called Maria , brought to her by the caretaker of the house , and vouched for as ‘ good and obedient ’ . |
| 19 | Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables . |
| 20 | Innocent that she was , for all the sophistication conferred on her by the great world in which she had once lived , she readily agreed to Rose 's suggestion , and when they had parted Rose took care to remind her of her promise . |
| 21 | Earlier she had played Juliet ; and there had been much adulation showered on her by the public and the newspapers . |
| 22 | She had the name ‘ Sarva Khepi ’ given to her by the villagers , which means ‘ The woman who loves all things ’ . |
| 23 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| 24 | After her Essex Ladies team-mate Jenny Stoute had rushed on the track to embrace her , Gunnell then embarked on one of the slowest laps of honour imaginable as , draped in the Union Jack given to her by the crowd , she stopped to receive hugs from the fans . |
| 25 | After her Essex Ladies team-mate Jenny Stoute had rushed on the track to embrace her , Gunnell then embarked on one of the slowest laps of honour imaginable as , draped in the Union Jack given to her by the crowd , she stopped to receive hugs from the fans . |
| 26 | Sabrina asked , holding up the one given to her by the stationmaster . |
| 27 | This is the story of how a woman made of iron emerged from the depths of a grocer 's shop in Grantham and , speaking with a strange tongue given to her by the God of Graven Images , Sir Gordon Reece , held a nation under her spell . |
| 28 | Draped across the carved wooden lid of a nearby chest were the clothes given to her by the Queen . |
| 29 | When they had passed under the Ponte di Rialto , with a disappointing view of the backs of its double row of shops , she checked the directions given to her by the hotel clerk , and , along with a jostling crowd of people , some tourists , some locals , disembarked at Sant'Angelo . |
| 30 | There are rules for deciding how much is taxable , and these should be explained to her by the insurance company with which she is dealing . |