Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience was constantly moved to applause by the spectacle , and Colonel Fergusson would nudge his daughter heavily at some particularly felicitous aspect of the display . |
| 2 | personally inscribed to Core by the author . |
| 3 | But the Ragdoll , lacking these responses , could be literally loved to death by unthinking children . |
| 4 | It is a fitting setting to discover the marvellous local game , the world famous Aberdeen Angus beef , superb seafood from the nearby East Coast , and fine salmon straight from the Dee … all cooked to perfection by our master chef . |
| 5 | Thus , they are all particularly clearly in play at moments like ‘ heart has wings ’ ( bar 5 ) , where a rhythmic stretching-out makes the voice try to fly , while at the same time it is poignantly connected to earth by a descending glissando on the last note ; and the ‘ how the ghost of you clings ’ phrase , which is given a strikingly tremulous ‘ clings ’ . |
| 6 | The sky was a clear , pale dome , covered in the east by a flock of tiny clouds that were already turned to pink by the sun that was still concealed , that had not yet risen . |
| 7 | In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants . |
| 8 | The doubts of some pre-war Labour leaders that the civil service would actually co-operate with a radical Labour government were largely laid to rest by the experience of the Attlee government . |
| 9 | Nineteen of the 31 authorities who spent over £3,000 ( see Table 11 ) actually spent £5,000 or more , and it should be noted that this group of 19 library authorities accounted for 55% of the money directly allocated to training by our sample , while employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 10 | ‘ Anyway , all I could see were violet eyes and a wide smile , and , after a few weeks of being slowly driven to distraction by your lovely ghost following me around , I decided to come to England . |
| 11 | It must have been one of the old medieval roads into the city , now dosed to traffic by the concrete retaining wall of the ring boulevard . |
| 12 | Panning the camcorder , that is swinging it round through a horizontal arc , is a camera movement often used to excess by amateurs . |
| 13 | This was true in so far as RCM workers were frequently driven to distraction by what they saw as unreasonable demands by orthodox children and their elders . |
| 14 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 15 | The response of those engaged in the arduous labours which led to the conclusion of the Convention is no doubt not dissimilar to that of the scholar who writes a book on the doctrine of unconscionability in contract law and is then taken to task by a reviewer for his failure to cover breach and termination — in other words , for not writing a different book . |
| 16 | In the meantime , the injured driver and GAB workers were attended to by a first aider by GAB and then sent to hospital by ambulance . |
| 17 | Now , partly because of fears for their safety and partly because of increased affluence , many children are either taken to school by car or they travel by bus or train . |
| 18 | Tuesday , 23rd : After a brief meeting at the High Commission with the Education Adviser , I gave a second lecture on ‘ the Logic of Polite Conversation ’ at J.N.U. , and was afterwards invited to lunch by the English Department , in the company of the Vice-Chancellor and various members of staff . |
| 19 | This is an excellent example where both the overall and shorter phrase rhythms are explicitly brought to life by the dance design ( see page 68 ) . |
| 20 | A suitably pedagogic figure called Skuul puts the case for cause and effect which is speedily reduced to relativism by an opposing voice : ‘ You pursue essentials I ride with the random … |
| 21 | Used carefully , however , over an extended period , Indian patronage could permit a politician to capitalise upon feelings of gratitude aroused by acts of seemingly disinterested friendship several years earlier , acts which would in fact be quietly brought to mind by a shrewd politician 's regular enquiries about the activities of his young friend in India . |