Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 2 | He took his vorpal sword in hand : Longtime the manxome foe he sought So rested he by the Tumtum tree , And stood awhile in thought . |
| 3 | He had released her from his embrace , his hands merely holding her by the upper arms , and she sagged against him , trembling too violently to stand unaided , her knees buckling . |
| 4 | He thought it about the stupidest remark he 'd ever made — and so did she by the look on her face . |
| 5 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |
| 6 | She took a couple of tentative steps but he reached out and swiftly held her by the shoulders . |
| 7 | Make sure that the surface is comfortable and not slippery At first , the dog may be reluctant to stay put , so restrain it by the collar . |
| 8 | It just caught me by the scruff of the neck and practically hammered my guts out . |
| 9 | Some people have already done it by the looks of things , only they have n't changed it . |
| 10 | That 's not all the way round , that 's just multiplying one by the other . |
| 11 | ‘ Just put them by the bed . |
| 12 | Just put it by the back door . |
| 13 | Cos he 's gon na just divide it by the number and it 's it 's |
| 14 | ‘ God has already shown him by the lightnings what I do think he already knew in his heart . |
| 15 | They are prone to the ‘ herd instinct ’ , and politicians can easily lead them by the nose . |
| 16 | Improvements in firms ' procedures were deemed necessary in many of the firms the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) visited , but in many cases firms were already implementing them by the time of our visits . |
| 17 | We shall best persuade it by the example that we set ourselves . |
| 18 | So in this particular example we 've got a single channel conductance of six picoamps , six times ten to the minus twelve amps , divided by forty millivolts , four times ten to the minus three volts , and just dividing one by the other we get a value of a hundred and fifty times ten to the minus twelve siemens which is the us unit of er conductance , note it has an I in it . |
| 19 | The path to salvation is eventually shown her by the unwitting Messiah figure Hussein , an East African poet who speaks in metaphors and proverbs . |
| 20 | It is amazingly powerful , er , please again always open it by the triggers . |
| 21 | He was still holding her by the scruff of the neck . |
| 22 | Still holding him by the ears , the Trunchbull lowered him back into his chair behind his desk . |
| 23 | Duvall was still holding him by the throat . |
| 24 | One of the aims of this appeal is more effectively to fund our secretariat , possibly strengthening it by the appointment of a short term full time development officer . |
| 25 | The pater gives her fifty pounds a year as a dress allowance and she has nearly always spent it by the end of the first month . |
| 26 | He was still clasping her by the shoulders and she tried to shake free . |
| 27 | It was one of those gems in a terrible situation that teaches you never ever to judge anybody by the cover . |
| 28 | They always play it by the bloody book . ’ |
| 29 | Other people 's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones ; she would see suddenly — with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism — the extent to which other people 's preoccupations differed from her own . |
| 30 | But I still see you by the bed that time . |