Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun sg] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was saved further embarrassment by the rustling approach through the fecundity of his garden of his wife , accompanied by two of the children . |
| 2 | In addition to the exceptional nature and size of his victory , it was considered a potential watershed in Haiti 's history , a view given further credence by the failure of a coup attempt in January 1991 which had aimed at preventing Aristide 's inauguration [ see p. 37955 ] . |
| 3 | This attitude to urban dialect seems to have been given further impetus by the view of Wyld ( 1927 ) that urban English can be described as the ‘ Modified Standard ’ of ‘ city vulgarians ’ . |
| 4 | He was spared further speculation by the descent of Miss Harker , candle aloft , like a vengeful ghost . |
| 5 | Laura Mancinelli 's Mozart 's Ghost ( 1986 ) combines two rather donnish mysteries : the protagonist is pursued by ‘ anonymous ’ telephone calls which consist of nothing but music by Mozart ; when she is spared further harassment by the entire Turin telephone system seizing up , she goes off in pursuit of the concealed manuscript of Plato 's last dialogue . |
| 6 | The bodies were discovered yesterday morning by the family 's nanny . |
| 7 | The web of diplomatic contacts which had developed in western and central Europe over the last 200 or more years was now being extended further east by the full incorporation in it for the first time of the great new emerging state of Russia : henceforth events in eastern Europe were to be far more significant in the calculations of statesmen in the west than ever in the past . |