Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] by [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all , Sly Spy is just about worth the four brass beer tokens asked for by your friendly computer shop . |
| 2 | Thirdly , the myth that ethnic minority elders inevitably prefer to be and always are looked after by their own is being exposed ( Grant , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | There are patients here looked after by their own G Ps especially on the medical side and of course they know their G Ps . |
| 4 | I know , er a gentlemen , like yourself , who 's looked after by his young son , by a younger son anyway , and he he 's given up his work to look after his father . |
| 5 | On his death Money left the place to his son Michel , who did not live there , but it was looked after by his step-daughter Blanche until her death in 1940 . |
| 6 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 7 | Many of their young men are going forward to train as priests , and at some time in the near future the people will be ministered to by their own men . |
| 8 | And all kinds of reasons are conventionally winked at by our good-natured policemen and traffic wardens . |
| 9 | It was looked at by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State and was available to the Court of Appeal when the appeal was turned down . |
| 10 | The visibility , lower than that of the drier climate of many parts of China , has caused the artist in Japan to be more concerned with the strength of outline than with the subtleties of depth sought for by his Chinese neighbour . |
| 11 | What he was not prepared for by his previous nursing experience was the lengths to which the staff in his ward had taken the system . |
| 12 | Deliberately , the colour has little force , but this is compensated for by its allusive subtlety . |
| 13 | This was compensated for by their self-laudatory claims such as : " We have our own team of analysts , and a good research department , etc . " |
| 14 | He lacked social graces and had no small talk but this , to some extent , was compensated for by his unfailing memory . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sure it was n't ; Garry is n't the brightest of men ; he 'd deceive himself into thinking I would n't try to trace him , and if it were n't for my sister I would n't bother ; the discrepancies in the accounts would be compensated for by his permanent absence from the firm . ’ |
| 16 | Biggest disappointment was ‘ The end of the story ’ , a fine Albert Moore which , while amply demonstrating his brilliance as a colourist , was done in by its overcleaned state and high reserve ( est. $500-$700,000 ) : all bidding , such as it was , stopped at $375,000 ( £250,000 ) . |
| 17 | There is real promise that the undoubted achievements of some primary schools in teaching science and the arts will be built upon by their secondary colleagues . |
| 18 | Ted , fortunately , was fluent in ( Belgian ) French because he had flown as a pilot for Sabena for many years and was , I believe , highly thought of by our French colleagues . |
| 19 | Harriet , being no fool , read between the lines and knew that Sidney had been got at by his stronger-minded and cynical other half . |
| 20 | Such an initiative would complement the United Nations arms register called for by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , and such an international responsibility is one that I believe Japan would willingly accept , which is why I commend it to my right hon. and hon. Friends . |
| 21 | The majority are cared for by their own families and friends , often at great emotional cost to themselves . |
| 22 | The vast majority are cared for by their own families and friends , often at enormous emotional cost . |
| 23 | The boys and girls are cared for by their own Class Teacher , with specialist teaching in Physical Education and Music . |
| 24 | So it 's nothing to do with by their own choice so I understand . |
| 25 | Andrewes ' qualities and weaknesses in public life have been commented upon by his later biographers . |
| 26 | But when they were made respectable , vouched for by his own father , when they were associated with his own parents , and with his own existence … it was quite different . |
| 27 | For ‘ safety ’ reasons , the people I mention will not be spoken of by their true names , but I can explain more about this when I come home on leave around April . |
| 28 | BT has gone a few steps further , and begun trials of its own telephone robot , capable of handling many of the routine tasks usually dealt with by its 25,000 human operators . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , evidence er , was dealt with by our assorted version parent . |
| 30 | As a result of the Prudential 's unique size and spread of interests , the work dealt with by our in-house department is of high quality and prestige . |