Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several other writers were attracted by it in the 1960s and 1970s : Douglas Oliver , in The Harmless Building ( 1973 ) , for example ; Muriel Spark , at several stages in her fiction ; and Giles Gordon , who follows the second-person narrative of Michel Butor 's La Modification ( 1957 ) , making ‘ you ’ the protagonist of his Girl with red hair ( 1974 ) . |
| 2 | First of all , it seems that the housewife 's resentment of her long working hours is located by her in the context of a comparison between her own and her husband 's situation . |
| 3 | The rise in the share of fixed investment , from 19 per cent of GDP in 1955 to 33 per cent in 1961 , was paralleled by one in the share of ( pre-tax ) gross profit incomes , up from 31 to 39 per cent . |
| 4 | I was saying , oh yeah erm Shrimpy like , we , me and Scott were playing snooker and I , I came in to see if like , either of you , anyone else wanted to play doubles and like , Swimp , Shrimpy was just sat by himself in the middle of the floor , cross-legged just sat there like a little pixie or something ! |
| 5 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 6 | ‘ It could have been added by someone in the scullery , ’ said James , rushing to the defence of Alfred . |
| 7 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 8 | ‘ All moneys received by the receiver shall be applied by him in the following order of priority ; ( 1 ) In satisfaction of all costs charges and expenses of and incidental to the appointment of the receiver and the exercise of any of his powers and all outgoings paid by him and his remuneration . |
| 9 | Yes , I suppose he is but I mean those two those pictures we bought were hundred and twenty and I mean they 're they 're only done by somebody in the village . |
| 10 | Have a look at that , I mean , it would have been better if Jemma was here , because I do n't want to criticise , I mean , I used Jemma 's because it was actually probably the best one that was done by anyone in the group . |
| 11 | I hope that it has n't been done by anybody in the town . |
| 12 | The symbol is the one selected by you in the configuration file as ‘ USERACCESSLOGICAL ’ . |
| 13 | It 's not known with any degree of certainty , erm , there was some indication by someone writing at the end of the last century , that it was written by someone in the time of the Queen Elizabeth , hence , perhaps it was God Save The Queen . |
| 14 | He will be sadly missed by everyone in the Brigade . ’ |
| 15 | … ( 5 ) The written record may , in any proceedings ( whether under the Act or otherwise ) be used as evidence against the bankrupt of any statement made by him in the course of his public examination . |
| 16 | More seriously , Judge Argyle was severely reprimanded by Lord Havers ‘ for a number of unfortunate remarks made by him in the course of a speech at Trent Polytechnic , Nottingham , on Friday , March 13 , 1987 ’ . |
| 17 | Every court having jurisdiction in bankruptcy matters may review , rescind or vary any order made by it in the exercise of its jurisdiction ( s 375(1) ) . |
| 18 | It does not come in an envelope and it could be seen by anyone in the office which may , in itself , help to achieve its purpose . |
| 19 | The Cuban Communists , who for the first six months of 1959 had made policy proclamations which were cautiously but unequivocally more radical than Castro 's , subsequently found that they were fast being outstripped by him in the proposal of anti-capitalist measures . |
| 20 | He was known to be a bad-tempered recluse , avoided by everyone in the area . |
| 21 | The hon. Member 's limited range of adjectives will have been noted by everyone in the House . |
| 22 | Was she employed by you in the QW ? |
| 23 | Thus in my planning for subsequent lessons , the person in the drama who might die of cancer was never played by anyone in the group . |
| 24 | In a haulage firm it is prudent to make sure that everyone knows who does in fact have permission to drive ; this avoids the problems which arise if a vehicle driven by someone in the firm without authority is involved in an accident . |
| 25 | ( This has been recovered by him in the price to the retailer of £690 . ) |
| 26 | S1 always stood out as a unit and these boys , who were always together , were known by everybody in the sample . |
| 27 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 28 | A little later when local people formed themselves into vigilantees and eventually into a battalion of the UDA , he was asked to take charge of the extensive social work sponsored by it in the district . |
| 29 | The previous day , she had demanded halts at least a dozen times , claiming they were being followed by something in the undergrowth , to the left of their narrow path . |
| 30 | ‘ It is not a seen gaze , but a gaze imagined by me in the field of the other ’ ( Lacan 1981 ) . |