Example sentences of "[vb past] by [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 2 | Not only were nobles who defected from the support of Otto of Brunswick punished by sentences of excommunication , such as Otto 's brother , Henry the count Palatine , and the duke of Brabant in 1204 – 5 , but also the ecclesiastical hierarchy who as temporal as well as spiritual princes might face revolt on their estates as well as censure from ecclesiastics within the diocese or province . |
| 3 | There have also been several periods of panic buying triggered by rumours of taxation or currency reforms . |
| 4 | Upon delivery of the original bill to SeaDocs , the shipper was to receive a code or test key equivalent to the personal identification numbers ( PIN ) provided by banks for use with automated teller machines . |
| 5 | He had taken a captured Italian Lancia lorry along on the trip , as he had heard that there was a roadhouse at Mersa Brega used by groups of officers for meetings . |
| 6 | It was not a cart-track but one used by men on foot only , perhaps by single horsemen , and it ran along the bank of the stream before turning and crossing by the log , then it seemed to wander off , more or less straight into the forest . |
| 7 | The latest figures collated by Women against Rape show that only one in twelve women who are raped report the offence to police . |
| 8 | The acceptance of the concept of mutual recognition was a major step in the process of removing NTBs caused by differences in rules and regulations . |
| 9 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 10 | ‘ Parts are not given , they are written and played by men of moment sir , ’ said the Governor quietly . ’ |
| 11 | There are some great set pieces — a brilliantly evoked highway robbery , with Macheath 's gang riding invisible horses and commandeering a stage coach suggested by just a table and a few boxes ; and a grotesque parade of whores , some of them played by men in drag , in which the ladies of the night emerge through a trap-door like beauty contestants from hell . |
| 12 | Jorvik is the Viking city uncovered by archaeologists beneath Coppergate , York . |
| 13 | Ibn Battuta describes arriving at this place through a succession of now-vanished gates and courtyards , each surrounded by cohorts of trumpeters and guards . |
| 14 | I 've seen pictures with him duck-shooting on Andros surrounded by girls in bikinis and all sorts . |
| 15 | One answer was that the riots in 1980 in Bristol followed by others in Toxteth , Moss Side and Handsworth in 1981 and Tottenham , Handsworth and Bristol in 1985 showed that young people could be a very real threat to the social order as well as just a symbolic one . |
| 16 | Rather , he was arguing that there is indeed a ‘ biotic ’ level to human behaviour , one constituted by instincts of survival and competition . |
| 17 | What makes Sanskrit unique is that this ancient Indian language of enlightenment was not ‘ thought up ’ but heard by yogis in meditation . |
| 18 | He must meet the Prime Minister of Denmark , that other sceptical EC country convulsed by troubles over Europe . |
| 19 | Mr Deputy Speaker I I 'm grateful to the honourable gentleman for posing the central question and I hope in the course of my remarks I will satisfy the house , if not all Labour members , that the settlement proposals are at is all to the good and delivered by councils throughout Wales and that they offer enough money er to avoid sacking essential staff , certainly the offer enough money to avoid sacking any teacher who is needed in the classroom . |
| 20 | The problems for North continued on Sunday when they lost by runs to Downpatrick at their home ground . |
| 21 | And it was a genuinely historic moment when the first tanks moved past the blocks of apartments in the Beirut suburbs , many of the buildings scorched and smashed by months of fighting . |
| 22 | His remarks are devastating for emerging British riders striving to follow the golden trail blazed by legends like Colonel Harry Llewellyn who won Britain 's first equestrian gold with ‘ Foxhunter ’ at Helsinki in l952 . |
| 23 | Several arson attacks occurred , with 10 people including six Vietnamese being injured in their homes in Halle in fires started by skinheads on Sept. 7 and two Yugoslavian children being badly burned in Hemsbach ( Baden-Wurttemberg ) on Sept. 11 . |
| 24 | Now of course er we 've sold the er chain of chemists in Canada who might have sold bottles of aspirin but , before we sold the chain , there was another enormous quantity of bottles of aspirin which was n't defined , it was something which was introduced after , long after we defined what we meant by outputs of aspirin . |
| 25 | When Dauberval defined what he meant by dances of character he undoubtedly had in mind some easily recognised characters of the commedia dell'arte , whose actors regularly played such roles as the absent-minded doctor or scientist , miser , termagant wife or widow and various clowns such as the sad Pierrot or zany clown . |
| 26 | Economic growth averaging some 3% per year is likely to the end of the century , despite current measures to curb the huge budget deficit and the probability of periodic banking crises as financial institutions , many of them over-extended by loans to energy producers , go to the wall . |
| 27 | The statues on the façade are by J. J. Bendl : his St Mary sits above the door , and above her is the Salvator Mundi flanked by Evangelists with SS Francis Xavier and Ignatius Loyola . |
| 28 | One conventional understanding of Earth 's primitive atmosphere , based on the famous Urey-Miller laboratory experiments of the 1950s , was that primitive gases such as hydrogen , ammonia , methane and water vapour , periodically energized by flashes of lightning , gave birth to the strange new combinations of CHON . |
| 29 | Pot up some Paperwhite narcissi now ( you can even grow them supported by pebbles with water in the base of the container ) . |
| 30 | Frederick himself showed this contempt , in writing and conversation , with an often brutal lack of restraint , especially as he became soured by decades of effort and struggle . |