Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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1 | I became slightly unnerved by the frequent reassurances I was given by fundholders that they would n't do anything to ‘ upset the applecart ’ or disadvantage their colleagues ' patients . |
2 | After all as I tramped around the hillside barns in the frosty air I was working up a better appetite for my turkey than all the millions lying in bed or slumped by the fire ; and this was aided by the innumerable aperitifs I received from the hospitable farmers . |
3 | ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara . |
4 | Rendered all the worse by the high hopes I once had , the desire to wrest from Mother Nature some of her deepest secrets , however dark the passage down which I might tread . |
5 | It was made to seem very radical by the academic lawyers I mentioned in Chapter I , who called themselves legal " realists . " |