Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You left the cinema your hand in your pocket clutching a non-existent ‘ rod ’ , you went rat a tat tat Chicago piano machine gun style and did a James Cagney hoodlum staggering along the pavement with your hands to your chest until you collapsed into a doorway mown down by gangsters ' bullets crying for Pat O'Brien or Joan Blondell to take the message to ma . |
| 2 | There was a distinct possibility that it could sink without trace , weighed down by listeners ' indifference , or , of course , it might possibly cause a public outcry , disgusting not merely Tunbridge Wells . |
| 3 | There is a special commission which organizes the daily menu , using the prison food stocks , invariably rice and beans , together with additional food brought in by prisoners ' relatives and solidarity groups . |
| 4 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 5 | Clive Allen missed one great chance six minutes before half-time when his snap shot from inside the box , following a superb pass by Julian Dicks , was brilliantly tipped over by Bees ' keeper Graham Benstead . |
| 6 | Often this conclusion is backed up by scientists ' discoveries of fossilized dinosaur footprints . |
| 7 | They are sceptical that a few extra consultants or staff grade appointments will really reduce their hours and complain that the new deal was set up by doctors ' representatives not working in hard pressed specialties . |
| 8 | This would lead to a balance of payments crisis and devaluation , coupled with domestic inflation as wages were bid up by employers ' demand for labour . |
| 9 | It was decided to press ahead with Saturday 's show despite access to the main field being badly cut up by exhibitors ' vehicles having to be tractor- towed into position . |
| 10 | In truth , the profession in Britain is in thrall to a near monopoly employer ( the NHS ) in tandem with a regulatory quango ( the GMC ) and litigious ‘ consumers ’ egged on by citizens ' charters . |