Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 2 | Put the right clothes on someone and everyone judges them by their appearance . |
| 3 | Le Grand Meaulnes was short , and I had it by heart quite quickly . |
| 4 | An hour or so later , Roger honoured his cafe-culture principles and I compromised mine by patronising the plastic vulgarity of the deserted skiers ' day lodge . |
| 5 | ‘ I have a position to keep up , sonny , and I do it by leaving little messages so that people know I 'm on top of the situation . |
| 6 | But the squares I was n't sure what happens to them and I confused him by asking him . |
| 7 | The diet was too severe and I broke it by having eggs and fish . |
| 8 | Erm , I can never remember the name of it and I , I , and I forget it by the time I get home , but , the name of the castle that is . |
| 9 | Then panellists start wandering off without making excuses and someone tops everything by asking ‘ Crispin of Chainsaw ’ how he gets his guitar sound : ‘ Like , do you kick in your amp or do you use distortion pedals ? ’ |
| 10 | One if you 're increasing it by forty five percent if it was a hundred percent and you increase it by forty five hundred percent |
| 11 | The pillar box was mounted on a platform about 10ft above deck and you reached it by climbing up a ladder . |
| 12 | FrauenfeId is the capital of the canton of Thurgau , and you reach it by a road to the west , passing through Marstetten and Mulheim . |
| 13 | For though you and your ancestors got your property by murder and theft , and you keep it by the same power from us that have an equal right to the land with you by the righteous law of creation , yet we shall have no occasion of quarrelling … |
| 14 | ‘ And you show it by putting in for a transfer behind my back , ’ he roared , his face as black as thunder . |
| 15 | And you define yourself by the words you use , in my case words that seek to present bare facts . |
| 16 | The young men she rustled up as marriage candidates seemed to Algy to be all one person with different haircuts , well-born dullards on their way into industry who exclaimed ‘ I say , how jolly enterprising ! ’ when they heard that Algy was a scene painter , and who surprised her by still dancing foxtrots and rumbas that she thought extinct . |
| 17 | For this purpose they appointed to serve under them a staff of foresters , carrying bows and arrows , for whom they were personally responsible , and who maintained themselves by levying contributions from the forest inhabitants . |
| 18 | He found an empty first-class compartment , and she reached it by way of the corridor after the train had pulled out . |
| 19 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 20 | His wife 's name was Sarah ; she was five years his junior , and she predeceased him by ten months . |
| 21 | But I did get another tingle of excitement when I swam a shade too near a jagged reef , and she grabbed me by the shoulder to pull me away . |
| 22 | The nurse and the doctor left the room together for a moment and she grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him desperately , with an air-lock in her throat as though she were in a temper . |
| 23 | Here the lane ended , and she found herself by the Green , facing the tiny weather-beaten church . |
| 24 | Let me just give you a list of some of the things that , that God has provided for us in , by , and we receive it by faith . |
| 25 | And we increase it by ten perc Well let's say we increase it by It 's not out money is it , so let's really spend it and increase it by fifty percent every year . |
| 26 | It was a blisteringly hot day and we ended it by plunging , fully-clothed off the boiler-plate slabs into the clear blue waters of Scavaig . |
| 27 | And we proved it by cracking the manufacturers ' secret codes . |
| 28 | Erm , and as a result of that , we did , er , Chair , seek erm , urgency powers to give that commitment for the scheme and we did it by er , forgoing a scheme within the current year 's capital programme , and exchanging this . |
| 29 | in fact the local paper actually took photographs on that basis , and they grouped them by |
| 30 | ONE group of men turned the tide of the Gulf War against Saddam Hussein — and they did it by tying up thousands of Iraqi soldiers in a deadly , sophisticated and top secret game of cat and mouse in the desert . |