Example sentences of "by [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 2 | He 's an expert on the buildings history and if the building is bought up and say , converted to offices , would like one or 2 rooms put by so he can set up a museum of psychiatry . |
| 3 | ‘ At about 6am they said I should eat something and if nothing had happened by 8am they 'd ask a doctor to break my waters . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |
| 5 | You 'd thought by now they would have sorted it out . |
| 6 | Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on . |
| 7 | As you are getting used to it by now we shall start with Gauss 's law . |
| 8 | They knew by now we 'd think they 'd run out . |
| 9 | By now we could have six more . |
| 10 | By now you 'll have decided what to eat on Christmas and Boxing Day . |
| 11 | By now you 'll have got well used to your new job , I expect . |
| 12 | By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor — no matter what the problems or obstacles . |
| 13 | By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading . |
| 14 | There are no standard procedures , in fact , by now you will have realised that the ‘ flying fantasies ’ are unique to their creators and , although some sell theirs on a commercial basis , it is a case that , if you want to make one , then you have to devise your own creation . |
| 15 | By now you will have gathered that our famous range of 3,000 carpet options is just part of the Allied home furnishing collection . |
| 16 | By now you will have a good picture of the basic background , and armed with this knowledge you should feel confident enough to contemplate buying a rug . |
| 17 | By now you will have become an old hand at completing charts , logging your daily weight and entering any adverse reactions and symptoms you may have experienced . |
| 18 | Do n't you think by now you can face it ? |
| 19 | I hope that by now you can begin to appreciate the delicacy of discrimination and the moral fervour which I have sought to bring to my work and that you will hold these qualities in your mind when the grossness , vulgarity and immorality of gossip or criticism begins to corrode the lucid purity of my text . |
| 20 | By now you should have a clearer picture of your current size and shape . |
| 21 | By now you should have discovered whether you are predominantly left or right-brained , thought about developing your creativity and learned about the influences on your mind and how to quieten it . |
| 22 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 23 | By now you should have an idea of the talk tactics that you and others use to play status . |
| 24 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 25 | By now you should have a fairly good idea of the possible use of a book . |
| 26 | By now you 'd 'ave forgotten you ever had' er . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He owns us , the studios from which we broadcast and the building they 're in , although by now he must have recovered whatever his original investment was several times over . |
| 28 | It was his misfortune to envisage every such encounter as a matter of life and death , though by now he should have been used to anticlimax , and to the survival and tenacity of both parties to fight another day . |
| 29 | By now it must have been obvious to the Romans that the power and authority of the Druids was in the ascendancy and that sooner or later their inimical influence had to be removed . |
| 30 | By now it must have been obvious to her host that she had put him down as a direct descendant of Casanova , Don Juan or Jack the Ripper — or possibly a combination of all three . |