Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 2 | Among their recommendations are : the need for regular reports on implementation of the Fifth Action Programme on the environment ; the rapid establishment of the European Environment Agency ; and early ratification of the Climate Change Convention agreed at UNCED , with the development of national strategies to implement it by the end of 1993 . |
| 3 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 4 | The words seized her by the throat . |
| 5 | Of course , he did n't mean it , but just for a moment the implied tenderness in his words took her by the throat . |
| 6 | The factory survey found that one quarter of Japan 's biggest factories used robots and that a second quarter had plans to install them by the end of 1982 . |
| 7 | He had been appalled , as had the rest of the court , at the emaciation of the four ambassadors sent them by the city , but he had not been surprised . |
| 8 | Amyas took her by the arm and helped her to her feet . |
| 9 | On the same day Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka said that she would firmly use the increased powers given her by the small constitution , including giving orders to ministers , which had not been possible before . |
| 10 | Taking advantage of the discretionary powers granted him by the tsar , he asked for a treaty guaranteeing Russia 's right to a protectorate over the Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 11 | The Quartet can be read as a ‘ simulacrum of simulation ’ in this sense : it reveals the simulated nature of the projections , speculations , and reconstructions fed us by the oral media and the role of story-telling in all so-called ‘ objective ’ compilations of factual information . |
| 12 | Four troopers had them by the arms and were hustling them out into the coach . |
| 13 | Your eyes narrow against the claws gripping you by the scruff of the neck until you let your hook of anger go . |
| 14 | Every time he felt himself sinking , Nails ' prehensile toes grasped him by the Adam 's apple and lifted his head clear of the water . |
| 15 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 16 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
| 17 | Mr Hikmatyar , whose strength springs largely from the favours shown him by the Americans and Pakistanis in the 1980s , is now ‘ prime minister-designate ’ of Afghanistan . |
| 18 | The Ministry policeman who checked his I/D had been another one of those patronising cretins who had obviously too soon forgotten the massive two fingers dealt them by the S.A.S. His raincoat was wringing wet , and he was drenched , when he stepped off the minibus outside H area . |
| 19 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |
| 20 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 21 | " The ceremonies taught us by the Chinese emperors ceased to be celebrated fourteen years ago in China itself when the revolution of Sun Yat-sen put an end to the Manchu dynasty . |
| 22 | Cafés sell it by the tumblerful . |
| 23 | This we did by making sure every request for spare parts , made on order slips , had been met by the delivery of these parts told us by the exact delivery slip . |