Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun sg] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We tried to save money by building economically , but it has cost us more in the long run . |
| 2 | Many of their innovative ideas lost money and failed to win acceptance by customers . |
| 3 | The two rigs bringing up the rear , swung round in a complete circle , and reversed to sit side by side some thirty yards from the front door . |
| 4 | This planned to reduce expenditure by $S2,200 million ( US$180 million — US dollar conversions are made here at the unofficial rate US$1.00=£S11.4 ) . |
| 5 | Washington then agreed to allow transport by sea . |
| 6 | Wilby , a divorced father-of-three , from Barnsley , admitted obtaining money by deception and was given a 180-hour community service order . |
| 7 | American troops appeared to restore order by nightfall . |
| 8 | American troops appeared to restore order by nightfall . |
| 9 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 10 | The journalists ' reaction appeared to take management by surprise . |
| 11 | She admitted destroying property by fire and making hoax telephone calls and was conditionally discharged for one year . |
| 12 | She had a number of very enthusiastic friends who did the research and , and generally assisted her , but everybody gives her credit for , not only working in New York , but it actually was not Federal legislation , they had to work state by state . |
| 13 | Behind her the two seats were empty , a troublous reminder of where Eddie and Laura had sat side by side when the coach had first set off from Heathrow Airport … had first arrived at the eastern outskirts of Oxford . |
| 14 | Elaine Blond observed that he had committed suicide by stages . |
| 15 | The report was useful in pointing out the confused state of the Company 's knowledge of its charities , and certainly the generosity would have been impossible without rigorous financial control ( from 1810 to 1816 , for example , expenditure had exceeded income by £10,000 , largely because of the work on the Company 's almshouses at Acton ) . |
| 16 | He described their house , the large stable which had grown year by year under the assiduous management of his father , or ‘ second father ’ , as he hesitatingly described him. , |
| 17 | Richard Zanuck assigned the production and screenplay to Ernest Lehman , who had written North by Northwest and The Sound of Music . |
| 18 | The ruling was said to be partly based on a case brought in a British court by a Maze prisoner who had alleged maltreatment by prison officers . |
| 19 | In the end she had sold bit by bit anything she could lay her hands on . |
| 20 | On Oct. 22 Mohorita was recalled by deputies from the Federal Assembly Presidium , although the reason cited was that he had breached protocol by chewing gum during a speech to the Assembly on Sept. 13 by France 's President Mitterrand . |
| 21 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |
| 22 | Why now should they be prepared to recognise as Messiah precisely the imperial authority which , three centuries before , had crucified Jesus — and which continued to practise execution by crucifixion on rebels against the State ? |
| 23 | They had brought Holly by car from the Lefortovo gaol to the train while Muscovites still slept . |
| 24 | The UK floated sterling in June 1972 , largely because of her own balance of payments difficulties , and most other major economies had followed suit by March 1973 . |
| 25 | For six years , on battlefields and in sieges , they had fought side by side and Harper , as soon as he heard of the new war , had waited for a word from his old officer . |
| 26 | As Ho Chi Minh presented the case the people who had fought side by side with the Allies , as well as against the French for more than eighty years , were entitled to their independence . |
| 27 | When you had worked side by side ? |
| 28 | It was held that a jury could find that they had obtained money by deception , and not in return for chopping down the trees . |
| 29 | It was the fourth time during the campaign that Mr Major had faced ordeal by egg . |
| 30 | The Privy Council on 26 February authorised the Bank to refuse cash payments , and the country banks had to follow suit by tendering Bank of England notes in the stead of gold . |