Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
| 2 | She stood there beside him , acknowledging the marvellous presence of the terns , and as she did so the thought came to her that striped shirt , and pink tie , and Julia of the leather skirt , presumably passed them by five days a week without knowing that they did so . |
| 3 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
| 4 | I caught him by cute observation ; |
| 5 | However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing . |
| 6 | Lancelot Andrewes , who was Hooker 's contemporary and friend , outlived him by twenty-five years and is usually regarded as his intellectual successor in the history of the Church of England . |
| 7 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 8 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 9 | We sold the residual sixteen years , approx , to a client represented by Harvey Gough & partners , who soon afterwards resold it by private treaty to a small company whose name I have not yet discovered , with the rumoured intention that it would be turned into a private nursing home . |
| 10 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 11 | Seaton Burn made 92 for four , with John Graham 43 , but Hermitage pipped them by one run , Paul Mallabar top scoring with 41 . |
| 12 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 13 | Thus lie has no right to re-sell the goods other than that allowed him by later subsections of section 48 . |
| 14 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 15 | I may say that despite my reputation of being trigger-happy where libel writs are concerned , I restrained him by all sorts of expedients . |
| 16 | His wife 's name was Sarah ; she was five years his junior , and she predeceased him by ten months . |
| 17 | Enough of these huacas remain , however , for the biologist Tony Morrison to have plotted several ceques and recorded them by infra-red photography as narrow lines in the vegetation . |
| 18 | He called them by this name because , he said , they went ‘ floppy ’ when you shot them . |
| 19 | The Trunchbull simply grabbed me by one ear and rushed me to The Chokey at the double and threw me inside and locked the door . |
| 20 | I leaned closer to Quigley , who , in a kind of transport of enthusiasm , grabbed me by both ears and squeezed my head hard . |
| 21 | He walked over , grabbed me by both lapels and screamed , ‘ Tu comprends , toi , ou quoi ? ’ |
| 22 | In that she exercised the power of appointment and appointed her husband ( provided that he survived her by 30 days ) to receive the income from her father 's estate . |
| 23 | Ximena , who survived him by fifteen years , held Valencia for only short time . |
| 24 | His only wife , Esther Azevedo , survived him by eight months . |
| 25 | They seem to have curled their arms up from the mouth as five ribs and then connected them by more plates to form a sphere . |
| 26 | I found a felt-tip pen in the desk drawer and addressed the envelope to ‘ Mr F. MacLean ’ care of a pub I knew in Southwark where they knew me by that name . |
| 27 | It took me by complete surprise . |
| 28 | Cardiff seized him by both arms , preventing his escape . |
| 29 | richly into , for I knew him by these things . |
| 30 | Alex put it on her finger with a sure movement , took her by both hands , and kissed her closely on the mouth . |