Example sentences of "[verb] by [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several other writers were attracted by it in the 1960s and 1970s : Douglas Oliver , in The Harmless Building ( 1973 ) , for example ; Muriel Spark , at several stages in her fiction ; and Giles Gordon , who follows the second-person narrative of Michel Butor 's La Modification ( 1957 ) , making ‘ you ’ the protagonist of his Girl with red hair ( 1974 ) . |
| 2 | First of all , it seems that the housewife 's resentment of her long working hours is located by her in the context of a comparison between her own and her husband 's situation . |
| 3 | ‘ All moneys received by the receiver shall be applied by him in the following order of priority ; ( 1 ) In satisfaction of all costs charges and expenses of and incidental to the appointment of the receiver and the exercise of any of his powers and all outgoings paid by him and his remuneration . |
| 4 | The symbol is the one selected by you in the configuration file as ‘ USERACCESSLOGICAL ’ . |
| 5 | In this guise , the computer 's role was to deliver machine-readable information that would supplement that normally found by students in printed form or received by them in the shape of lectures and seminars . |
| 6 | … ( 5 ) The written record may , in any proceedings ( whether under the Act or otherwise ) be used as evidence against the bankrupt of any statement made by him in the course of his public examination . |
| 7 | More seriously , Judge Argyle was severely reprimanded by Lord Havers ‘ for a number of unfortunate remarks made by him in the course of a speech at Trent Polytechnic , Nottingham , on Friday , March 13 , 1987 ’ . |
| 8 | Every court having jurisdiction in bankruptcy matters may review , rescind or vary any order made by it in the exercise of its jurisdiction ( s 375(1) ) . |
| 9 | The Cuban Communists , who for the first six months of 1959 had made policy proclamations which were cautiously but unequivocally more radical than Castro 's , subsequently found that they were fast being outstripped by him in the proposal of anti-capitalist measures . |
| 10 | Residential workers significantly contribute to the psychological development of young people in their care when they stand by them in the face of the young person 's opposition or retreat , and when they continue to strive to know and understand them . |
| 11 | She brushed by him in the dark , and her closeness , brought a sudden tingling which raised the short hairs on his skin for a moment ; then she was gone , and light from the hallway spilled into the room from the half-open door . |
| 12 | Was she employed by you in the QW ? |
| 13 | ( This has been recovered by him in the price to the retailer of £690 . ) |
| 14 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 15 | A little later when local people formed themselves into vigilantees and eventually into a battalion of the UDA , he was asked to take charge of the extensive social work sponsored by it in the district . |
| 16 | ‘ It is not a seen gaze , but a gaze imagined by me in the field of the other ’ ( Lacan 1981 ) . |
| 17 | A white-faced Mathilda sped by me in the gallery but Benjamin was shouting for me so I decided not to accost her . |
| 18 | ‘ The Bank of England ( in this Act referred to as ‘ the Bank ’ ) shall have the powers conferred on it by this Act and the duty generally to supervise the institutions authorised by it in the exercise of those powers . |
| 19 | This is contained in section 1 , which provides that the Bank of England shall have the powers conferred on it by the Act , and also ‘ the duty generally to supervise the institutions authorised by it in the exercise of those powers . ’ |
| 20 | In this case the findings of the justices and their reasons , so far as concerns the making of the order for costs , were announced by them in the following terms : |
| 21 | Hers may be the problems of a lost or disgraced lover , of fears around childbirth or abortion , of whether or not her family will stand by her in the end , perhaps of a situation in which she has queered her own pitch for continuing fun , and above all , possibly , of the way she is seen by the others concerned . |
| 22 | People were squeezing by her in the general drift to get a look at him , and she let herself go with the crowd a little in order to see how he was doing . |
| 23 | In May 1269 Queen Eleanor , Edward and Edmund the king 's sons , and Guy de Lusignan , the king 's half-brother , persuaded Henry III to appoint his nephew Henry of Almain to be constable of Rockingham castle and warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , as a return for expenses incurred by him in the king 's service , and for debts owed by the king to him . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) In any proceedings to which this section applies the court by which the proceedings were so decided may , subject to subsections ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) below , make an order for the payment by the Board to the unassisted party of the whole or any part of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings . |
| 25 | But I am content to rest my conclusion in rejecting it on the simple ground , which closely reflects the reasoning I have already deployed in rejecting the board 's construction of section 18 , that the words in subsection ( 2 ) ‘ an order for payment … to the unassisted party … of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings ’ can only apply to costs incurred by the unassisted party in his capacity as such . |
| 26 | e ) Every member of the Executive Committee and its standing Sub-Committees and the holder of any office of the Society shall be entitled to be indemnified against all costs , charges , losses , expenses and liabilities incurred by them in the execution and discharge of their responsibilities relating to the Society . |
| 27 | We deny that we have been disdainful of patients : we were investigating a concern expressed by them in the most objective way we could . |
| 28 | Henrietta , tall for her age and spectacularly thin , stood by them in the bikini she had put on for the sunshine and the wand , hovering round the crowd , finally pointed at her . |
| 29 | obtained by him in the course of a business of a market maker in those securities in which he was engaged or employed , and |
| 30 | The deputy head took a similar view , saying that it was constructive , that good points had come out — for example , that relationships were good — and that it had been taken constructively by staff in general because all the things that had been criticized had already been criticized by them in the self-appraisal . |