Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the Judge , will compel him to learn it by heart . |
| 2 | He caught me by surprise and I sounded foolish . |
| 3 | I sometimes worried that he did n't have enough time to see his own music but it seems he has it by memory . |
| 4 | In the Concerto especially , both soloist and conductor take the work entirely seriously , and make a substantial case for it as one of the leading Concertos of its time — the days are leaving us at least when Gershwin 's ‘ serious ’ works ( those are n't my scare quotes ) were treated like the fortuitous good fortune of the upstart seven-year-old playing in big brother 's room , as if he composed them by accident . |
| 5 | ‘ He discovered it by chance about thirty years ago , when his yacht ran in for shelter from a storm . ’ |
| 6 | He surprised her by adding ‘ Have you always worked in the shops ? ’ |
| 7 | I love to watch him , because he 's intelligent and he has extraordinary drive and he takes us by surprise , but he is n't an intuitive actor , and we 're aware of how cleverly he 's playing the part . ‘ |
| 8 | He calls us by name , and his relationship to each one of us fits our own person uniquely . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) Titius left this legacy to his debtor , Seius : ‘ I give and bequeath to Seius ten denarii , and I also give him whatever he owed me by way of capital and interest . ’ |
| 10 | But then he took her by surprise . |
| 11 | He took it by train to Devonshire and walked many miles over the moors with it so that it would not be seen near Baskerville Hall . |
| 12 | ‘ He saw me by chance . |
| 13 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 14 | So we turned up and the fellow had the opportunity , therefore , of hearing his concerto played off by little Wolfgang as if he knew it by heart … |
| 15 | He rediscovered it by chance . |
| 16 | Thus it was argued that William had a legitimate title to the throne because he won it by right of conquest in a just war . |
| 17 | ‘ Yet what the Romans did to other nations , was in a great degree done by Cromwell to the Scots : he civilized them by conquest , and introduced by useful violence the arts of peace . ’ |
| 18 | It is significant that whenever Gloucester took a controversial step , such as seizing the prince or sending north for reinforcements , he justified it by reference to a Woodville plot to subvert the state . |
| 19 | It is significant that whenever Gloucester took a controversial step , such as seizing the prince or sending north for reinforcements , he justified it by reference to a Woodville plot to subvert the state . |