Example sentences of "he [verb] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , he lived by the church bells of London and occasionally a sundial , as did almost everyone else there . |
| 2 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 3 | As he passed by the city 's Queen 's Bridge a bullet ricocheted off a nearby wall as the Scottish internationalist dived for cover . |
| 4 | He sits by a globe with his back to the police station , looking south towards the Cabo de Hornos Hotel , towards the low hills of Tierra del Fuego and the unseen coast of the distant Antarctic . |
| 5 | Though he sits by the gate of Shiloh , in his blindness watching the road , he is nearly the last in the town to hear the news . |
| 6 | He sits by the door and I read in my chair , and we 're like two people who 've been married years . |
| 7 | He sits by the hour with three or four words on his typing paper and listens to the noise from the room of a neighbour . |
| 8 | Does he know by the way ? ’ |
| 9 | He stands by the decision of his predecessor , Mr Douglas Hurd , that there is no need for further investigation . |
| 10 | When everyone has found their places he stands by the microphone at the top table , hammers on the table with a gavel , and announces loudly , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , Pray SILENCE for the Reverend John Smith , who will now say grace . ’ |
| 11 | He stopped by the gate and waited as she limped towards him in the darkness . |
| 12 | He stopped by the door . |
| 13 | He stopped by the bike , taking his helmet out of one of the panniers on the back , and then swung his leg over the seat , straddling the machine easily . |
| 14 | You know that he stopped by the villa every day asking what he could do for me , offering lifts , bringing books , staying to talk . |
| 15 | He stopped by the pedestrian crossing which led over Rosebery Avenue to the square , red-brick building of the Air Gallery . |
| 16 | He stopped by the hospital on his way to a tennis match . ’ |
| 17 | " Quiss she began quietly , He shook his head , kicked the small chair he had been sitting on , and marched off across the squeaking , grating glass floor , heading for his own apartments , Before he left the games room for the short corridor which led to his rooms , he stopped by the side wall of the room , where more conventional paper and cardboard books lined the slate fabric of the castle — the masons ' lame attempt at insulation . |
| 18 | He knelt by the bed and put his arms round her . |
| 19 | He knelt by the fireplace . |
| 20 | He knelt by the body . |
| 21 | Almost against his own will , he knelt by the gap , and peered in . |
| 22 | But he lingered by the window , inhibiting her from winding it up . |
| 23 | Usually he lingered by the stream to throw in stones , but today he did n't stop . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ I reassured her , ‘ if he came by the money legally , they ca n't take it away from you . ’ |
| 25 | I asked Gennaro how he came by the letter and he merely said that he knew the right people to approach . |
| 26 | He parked by the entrance as a steward came up to them , signalling them to park elsewhere . |
| 27 | A driver is sensitive to minute shifts in the pressures on his hand and in the rhythm of the engine , with an intensity of concentration which when tiring he sustains by an effort of will ; but most of the time he does not ponder alternatives , apply principles , or make decisions , his hands are as though moving of themselves . |
| 28 | The fact that the accused gave no thought to the risk of someone being deceived does not square with the requirement that he obtained by a deception . |
| 29 | ‘ He walked by the tree shade of sunny winking leaves , and towards him came the wife of Mr David Shehee MP . |
| 30 | A student at Lashan Gliding Centre was badly hurt once when the glider lifted off the ground and came down on top of him as he walked by the nose . |