Example sentences of "[vb past] it by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We placed it by the spot were she went in and out , and every day I moved her food nearer to the cage until , eventually , she had to go right in to eat . |
| 2 | But yesterday it was seen in Chaura and in Chhuma , running through the outskirts of the villages : and the day before , a dog like that had chased a sheep in Pere , and clutched it by the neck , shaking it from one side to the other until it died of shock . |
| 3 | I knew it by the way their eyes glowed green and yellow in the dark and because they always hopped in my direction in spite of how much I hated them . |
| 4 | The maydes came in to make the bed , and hearing a thing in a case cry Tick , Tick , Tick , presently concluded that it was his Devill , and took it by the string with the tongues , and threw it out of the windowe into the mote ( to drown the Devill ) . |
| 5 | And divided it by the number of samples taken to give us a mean average . |
| 6 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 7 | Maggie approached Godfrey and said over his shoulder , ‘ I made it by the pound cake method . |
| 8 | While he was doing this Maggie took a pan of boiling water from the cooker and laid it by the side of the sink . |
| 9 | So naturally I had to get it with and it was heavier th I do n't know how much it weighed , I I I got it by the way , in my barn in farm in Indiana , one of the last relics of Brothers . |
| 10 | You know , it was much too big , but I got a stand , you see , got it by the tractor . |
| 11 | Heather Allinson , 26 , of Barnard Castle , who glimpsed it by the roadside near Gainford , said it had enormous teeth . |
| 12 | Isabel refilled the beaker , then hoisted the pail and replaced it by the side of the bench . |
| 13 | The PSP abolished its central committee and replaced it by an assembly of guides , to be led by its secretary-general , Lt.-Col. Sharif Fayyad . |
| 14 | She picked up the sheet-white leg of her murdered boy and warmed it by the fire . |
| 15 | And I 've got , there was some left if you wanted it by the way ? |
| 16 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
| 17 | Cecilia could see that the man with the bear held it by a chain looped round its neck . |
| 18 | I am praised because I held it by the tail . ’ |