Example sentences of "and [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wandered the savannah during the day , looking for food , and sometimes met and socialised by the lake with other groups of hominids . |
| 2 | This was why he was feared and tabooed as the totem , but this was also why he was periodically sacrificed and consumed by the clan brothers in rituals which re-enacted the primal trauma and the occasion of his first emergence as a psychological force of self-restraint . |
| 3 | The situation has improved in many ways , but it is not easy to overcome the problems created by natural obstacles and compounded by the legacy of centuries of neglect . |
| 4 | is being choked and polluted by the motor car , coming specially from large housing estates built on the wrong side of |
| 5 | The events of 1297 marked a new era in crown and church and in clergy-laity relations , one in which the endowments and incomes of the clergy were increasingly raided by the king and coveted by the laity to meet , above all , the soaring costs of warfare and diplomacy . |
| 6 | ’ … if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . ’ |
| 7 | 9 – ( 1 ) Where there is an agreement to sell goods on the terms that the price is to be fixed by the valuation of a third party , and he can not or does not make the valuation , the agreement is avoided ; but if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . |
| 8 | Once we see that the relationship between a set of explanatory principles and the more specific analyses offered by social scientists must be a reciprocal one we are able to benefit from the fact that , just as social scientific practice is moulded by existing views of explanation , so those views can be refined and altered by the impact of practice . |
| 9 | Many microorganisms enter the body via the respiratory tract and those who have colds , for example , should minimise the spray from their sneezing and coughing by the use of a paper tissue which can be disposed of safely after one use . |
| 10 | These will be collected and catalogued by the Institute , which will pass on to Merck any promising varieties . |
| 11 | In Incredible Era , a book on the corruption of the Harding years in the Twenties , historian Samuel Adams wrote , ‘ A president is measured , weighed and catalogued by the character of his chosen intimates . ’ |
| 12 | She felt depressed and frightened by the time the shop closed and she was able to go home . |
| 13 | These sections will be broken down and explained by the lecturer , and further understood in your reading . |
| 14 | The results-seen and heard by the majority of Teesside on TV , radio and the newspapers — proved the journalists had been genuinely impressed by the work of the laboratory . |
| 15 | The payment request or invoices from the nominated sub-contractor will be received and checked by the builder and passed to the client 's quantity surveyor at the time of the interim valuation . |
| 16 | This valuation will be undertaken by the storekeeper , assessed and verified by management and checked by the auditor . |
| 17 | It then had to be tested by training officers and checked by the IPG . |
| 18 | By dusk , though , each day of dignity , Clary would return to his base and sit by the cathedral , with his inseparable friend for comfort — the ‘ funny stuff ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Come and sit by the window with me , ’ she said . |
| 20 | Go and sit by the window . |
| 21 | A little fat nun had once cried in the heat of Egypt 's afternoon , in the accents of County Cork , that she wished she could take off her flesh and sit by the well in her bones . |
| 22 | Come and sit by the fire . |
| 23 | ‘ Come and sit by the fire and get warm , ’ he instructed , interrupting her thoughts . |
| 24 | Well I was n't married but I used to go in there and I used to come home er say in Winter if I come home for a w week or two , I go in there , and sit by the fire and have a yard . |
| 25 | I will make the most of being injured , and go down and sit by the pool for a while and chat to Carlos . ’ |
| 26 | They had no house of their own ; only married quarters supplied and furnished by the Army . |
| 27 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
| 28 | It implies a process of hiring and firing by the day or by the hour and a high level of job insecurity . |
| 29 | Yet another document published by Uzuncarsili is useful for establishing a terminus post quem for Molla Fenari 's return , namely the for Karamanoglu Ali Bey 's Ak medrese in Nigde , written and registered by the hakim of Nigde , Muhammad b . |
| 30 | One of the key findings was that for babies born outside marriage and registered by the mother alone — a total of 8% of all births in 1990 — the infant mortality rate was 13.1 ( per 1000 live births ) , 80% higher than that of babies born within marriage . |