Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there it lay , 300 miles to the north , utterly cut off from us by the hurricanes which — according to the local weather men — were raging back and forth nearby . |
| 2 | Nanna wants to have all the er plants picked out of the greenhouse and erm have them all in the trays and up to us by the end of May before they go away on holiday . |
| 3 | As such , it has effected significant changes in some of the Bills sent up to it by the Commons . |
| 4 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 5 | You could get up to it by the stairs to the roof . |
| 6 | The kind of tasks carried out for them by the support workers is similarly hard to classify . |
| 7 | A survey of 295 property inheritors carried out for it by the Housing Research Foundation confirmed that two-thirds of inheritors promptly sold the houses they were left , whereas 22% moved into them . |
| 8 | The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it . |
| 9 | While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding ! |
| 10 | They both gasped as the breath was knocked out of them by the impact . |
| 11 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 12 | Battalion after battalion decimated solely by the bombardment would be replaced in the line by others , until these too had all effectiveness as a fighting unit crushed out of them by the murderous shelling . |
| 13 | His brevet ( his flying wings in other words ) was situated some two or three inches above the pocket and when this error was pointed out to him by the more die-hard RAF characters he pointed out that the space was to make room for the VC , the DSO and the DFC . |
| 14 | I mean , if it 's pointed out to us by the lord we we try |
| 15 | My inability to unbelieve in him hung on to me by the jaws , as I ascended the corporate ladder . |
| 16 | Thorough research conducted by Newcastle polytechnic has been passed on to me by the Rev. Paul Nicholson , who has done sterling work to highlight the problems of those on income support . |