Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she knew then that , plagued and plagued again by the same thought during her fretful waking night-time hours , she just could not leave it . |
| 2 | I 'll happily pay my forfeit and sit here by the fire while you play . ’ |
| 3 | As the discussion followed between the now cosseted intruder and the male members of the small walking party which had found its grail at the lakeside Hotel , Miss Skelton was deferred to by her father , complimented by her mother , patted and plumped by her friends and avoided only by the chaplain , the Reverend Nicholson , who , Hope judged , was in love with her but too poor to press , too honourable to hotly pursue any claim . |
| 4 | Now he 's hoping to be back on the golf course soon and singing again by the end of the year . |
| 5 | To all whom this epistle shall come , Greetings — Whereas we have been credibly informed by our well-beloved subject the right honourable Lord Clovelly , of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , and on behalf of our well-beloved subject Christopher Everard , Gentleman , that the said Christopher Everard hath lately discovered several Islands in the Hesperidean seas towards the continent of America , the one called Saint Thomas 's , alias Everhope ( though this be error ) , or in the native tongue Liamuiga , and another , as the savages of those parts name it , Oualie ; that we are further informed that these said Islands are possessed and inhabited only by the aforementioned savages and heathen people , and are not , nor at the time of the discovery were , in the possession or under the government of any Christian Prince , state or potentate , and thereupon the said Christopher Everard , being set forth and supplied on our shores for that purpose , made entry into the said Islands for and on behalf of our dear Father in heaven , and hath since with the consent and good liking of the natives made some beginning of a plantation and colony and likewise of an hopeful trade there , and hath caused divers of our subjects of this realm to remove themselves to the said Islands with purpose to proceed in so hopeful a work : KNOW THEREFORE that the said Lord Clovelly and Christopher Everard may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample maintenance and authority to effect the same , We do command the said Christopher Everard to be possessed of the said Islands and all our other loving subjects under him : And of our especial great and certain knowledge have given and granted unto the said Christopher Everard during our pleasure custody of the aforesaid Islands and of every creature , man , woman and child upon them together with full power and authority for us and in our name and as our Lieutenant to govern rule and order all . |
| 6 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 7 | The tradition of Anglo-Austrian co-operation against France , wearing thin in the time of Walpole and strained unbearably by the peace settlement of 1748 , was also submerged by the events of the 1750s . |
| 8 | Tinned meat from 1860 , cheap refrigerated meat from New Zealand from 1880 , fish , packed in ice and moved rapidly by the new railway system ; all became a cheap commonplace of working-class diet . |
| 9 | It is the more-educated people who most use complementary medicine , thus helping to dispel the idea that it is ‘ unscientific ’ and used only by the uncritical ; and about 10 per cent of clients going to complementary practitioners are referred by doctors or paramedics . |
| 10 | The size of the fee was set and reviewed periodically by the government , for whom it was a useful source of leverage in the informal manoeuvrings typical of government — broadcaster relations . |
| 11 | A couple of Hunters were captured and torn apart by the hysterical mob . |
| 12 | Children presenting with acute respiratory infections were referred to the district hospital for chest radiography , and severely ill children were admitted to hospital , where they were treated by standard protocols , and monitored daily by the study physician . |
| 13 | In practice , I suspect that ‘ contracts ’ are arrived at as much by religious and ideological persuasion as by rational discourse , and maintained more by the threat of social ostracism than by legal restraint . |
| 14 | The soundproofing between its three sections is excellent and helped enormously by the fact that the PA system drops sound down from the ceiling rather than pushing it out from the front . |
| 15 | The towering cliffs , rising to a vertical 350 feet below the lighthouse and to 800 feet in places to the east , are the highest in mainland Britain and are virgin , just as they were sculptured , and explored only by the countless seabirds to which they are home . |
| 16 | Clark had , however , made it clear that he did not wish to continue for a further term and , as a consequence of an Academic Board working party 's recommendation , a permanent post was created and filled externally by the appointment of the author . |
| 17 | It differs from the ordinary railway by using lightweight trains , calling at more convenient places and operating economically by the use of advanced technology now available for the custom-built rapid transit systems . |
| 18 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 19 | Gin was , after all , commercially produced and consumed only by the lower orders . |
| 20 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 21 | What we 're trying to say is that : if you can get your head round this week 's Prize X-Word , it 'll probably take you so long to finish that al you 're friends will have married and moved away by the time you 've finished it . |
| 22 | The brief silence seemed to stretch down the long room and hold fast by the pillars of the door , and every eye in the hall fixed greedily on the three at the high table . |
| 23 | Soon the cat appeared , and enchanted anew by the sight beneath the door of little legs running hither and thither , began expertly to grope . |
| 24 | Soaked in noxious-smelling slimy water , and watched only by the sightless eyes of rotting fish , Benny left the cavern . |
| 25 | Costing around FFr10 million and financed jointly by the Ministry of Culture and Paris City Hall , the renovation will start in 1994 and should last two years . |
| 26 | In the case of ‘ case-hardened ’ plywood the edges of the tubes are bent over and turned inwards by the hot plattens of the press which makes the plywood , so that the glue is prevented from penetrating and the joint has no strength ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 27 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 28 | Popov , 63 , had been nominated by President Zhelyu Zhelev with the endorsement of the participants in all-party negotiations on forming a government , and approved overwhelmingly by the GNA as Premier on Dec. 7 . |
| 29 | The EPO 's approach has been followed and approved subsequently by the English courts . |
| 30 | This means the boats , equipment , operating methods , safety standards and staff are examined and approved annually by the highest UK National Authority . |