Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRAYERS were requested by Bishop Konstant for Tony Bland and everyone hurt by the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It takes only a few minutes down to the shore , and I stop by the pier where one or two herring gulls are sitting rather listlessly , and a couple of hooded crows are poking about on the beach . |
| 4 | Israel and I pushed by the startled and helpless usher and swaggered into the arena dressed in our Mau Mau uniforms . |
| 5 | And I think by the time we get |
| 6 | Sorry it was another long hard meeting but we are making good progress and I think by the end of our next one when we 've revised most of the procedures we 'll be well placed . |
| 7 | And I think by the time she 'd finished it would be half price , she 'd walk out with the thing half price , and she 'd say , well you know , it 's just , they make up prices and you go to another shop and it would be the half price marked , and you go into another shop it would be , you know , |
| 8 | And providing you are eligible and you reply by the closing date , your acceptance into the Personal Accident Plan is guaranteed . |
| 9 | I 'll hand them up to you from the bottom of the steps , and you stay by the cart . ’ |
| 10 | She had n't even noticed where they were , but now he was guiding her up some stone steps , and she realised by the background music that they were heading for Pepe 's . |
| 11 | Communication with Hull was maintained by horse-drawn vehicles , daily local carriers taking anything and everything needed by the villagers . |
| 12 | … The judges deputed to the benchers of the societies the task of giving lectures , and examining into the sufficiency of the candidates , and of calling them to the Bar , but they are still mere voluntary societies ; and they act by the authority which the judges have delegated to them . |
| 13 | Eventually the light was left behind and they walked by the glow of the snow itself . |
| 14 | Wycliffe took the sergeant to lunch at his hotel and they sat by the great window overlooking the sea , which still sparkled in the sun . |
| 15 | Twoflower helped the wizard to his feet and they crouched by the altar stone , watching the manic figure as it battled the questing arms . |
| 16 | The laws they followed belonged to Gemara and they swore by the Midrash and the Mishmeh Torah , an encyclopaedic religious code written by Maimonides eight centuries ago . |
| 17 | There was a wide area where the passage broadened out and he lingered by the steps until the raincoat came in sight . |
| 18 | She walked up and down for some time , looking and sniffing , but not touching , and he waited by the door in the shadows and watched her . |
| 19 | William of Malmesbury said King Edward ‘ clapped spurs to his horse , but one foot slipped and he dragged by the other through the wood , his blood leaving a trail until he was dead . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I sat on my bed and he sat by the door and we talked and I tried to persuade him to use his money to educate himself and he said he would but I did n't feel convinced . ’ |
| 21 | In one of the most touching passages , he recalled coming up to America on his emigrant ship in 1955 , his father and brother and he standing by the rail , feeling this sense of opportunity , this relief that the bad times were over , that a new world was out there waiting to be conquered . |
| 22 | Behind the old ogre of unemployment stands a new one ; and it goes by the suitably ugly name of de-industrialisation [ Blackaby , 1978 ] . |