Example sentences of "the [noun] by a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 2 | The siege , which ended with Keith Pringle being shot in the neck by a police marksman , was the latest incident involving firearms and has renewed calls for a clampdown on Britain 's gun laws . |
| 3 | Pringle , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot in the neck by a police marksman on Tuesday after 21-year-old Leanne Rees had been held at gunpoint for 47 hours . |
| 4 | In cold January weather a crowd of 2,000 , kept on the pavement by a police cordon , lined the streets to watch the cortège , draped in the imperial splendour of red and white , move from the Chapmans ' home in Haslemere Avenue to Hendon Parish Church . |
| 5 | He is accompanied in the cab by a police officer armed with binoculars , two cellphones and a radio who can spot vandals hundreds of yards ahead . |
| 6 | He is accompanied in the cab by a police officer armed with binoculars , two cellphones and a radio , able to spot vandals hundreds of yards ahead . |
| 7 | Yet section 4 seems to place severe limitations in some circumstances on the exploration by a children 's hearing of a child 's entire social background . |
| 8 | Pahdra was escorted from the pitch by a police poodle . |