Example sentences of "i [vb base] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I would like to give you just one illustration to show what I mean by the disintegrating influence of a dynamic force . |
2 | This is an important part of what I intend by the transnational capitalist class ( TCC ) , but with two important differences . |
3 | Two hours later , I pass by the exact same spot on Michigan and East Walton and they 're still playing The Flintstones ! |
4 | Er suggested that the officers have a joint meeting and get together and actually ask them what transport to be given the figures er for night flights so that they could and so on , and I know by the recent customer complaints and I believe members attended the meeting of those four Councils so that I think that discuss that . |
5 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
6 | Er the idea was we 'd be able to sell it to people or give it to people depending on whether they had any money or not I suppose by the Green Party . |
7 | before so I lent them , so he 's gone in I go by the same time as him we both got ta sign them |
8 | " I swear by the Blessed Virgin that it fell into the sea . " |