Example sentences of "they [vb past] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They passed by a series of layered rocks . |
| 2 | He was a realpolitiker , believing nation-states were the prime actors in world affairs and that they operated by the logic of the balance of power . |
| 3 | They stopped by a body as yet unidentified . |
| 4 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 5 | They changed by the minute as the clouds crossed them ; the clouds themselves , impenetrable mass or the wispiest of vapours . |
| 6 | We have ourselves observed and documented many such cases in our studies of local politics in Kensington and Chelsea , and Croydon , where relatively powerless groups of underprivileged people were frequently ignored by councillors when they played by the rules of the game , and were vilified when they did not . |
| 7 | LITTLE did they know as they lazed by the pool that the roof was about to fall in . |
| 8 | In Somerset , for example , they showed by the evidence of Domesday that Dulverton and Winford were of the ‘ ancient demesne ’ of the Crown of England , and therefore ought to remain in Exmoor Forest , according to the provisions of the Charter . |
| 9 | Even within the bounds of their overwhelming devotion to Gothic they showed by the end of the century an openness to new styles which other denominations were not as quick to learn . |
| 10 | Like Dorothy , Helen and Edward used swabs of mouldering grey stockinette ; they festered by the sink and were known as dead rabbits . |
| 11 | ‘ The deal they escaped by the skin of their teeth was SMS , ’ Forster says . |
| 12 | From the time of James 's second Indulgence , most Whigs and Nonconformists had come out against the suspending power , on the promise that if they stuck by the Church , they would be given some measure of toleration . |
| 13 | The Christian neglect of the gods , indeed the propensity of the more militant to hiss in disapproval as they walked by a temple , offended polytheists , who feared that heaven would not be propitious : floods , plagues , famines , earthquakes were sent by angry spirit-powers who had not been placated with the customary offerings . |
| 14 | Eventually the light was left behind and they walked by the glow of the snow itself . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After dark , they worked by the light of the city 's fires and by candles the ten remaining nurses held for them . |
| 17 | ENGLAND 'S India cricket tour nightmare was complete today when they lost by an innings and 15 runs in the third and final Test in Bombay . |
| 18 | As in Calcutta — where England were beaten by eight wickets — and Madras , where they lost by an innings and 22 runs , the English batsmen had no answers to the spin bowling . |
| 19 | There was no Tube then to Pimlico , and they proceeded by a series of tacks to Victoria . |
| 20 | We asked men and women what they understood by the oppression of women , what changes the new society would bring for them and what they hoped to contribute to that new society . |
| 21 | In particular , responsibilities had not been adequately defined , and , although the Ships ' Masters had raised concerns , the lack of any appropriate feedback system meant they fell by the wayside . |
| 22 | ‘ Everything 's more forward here , ’ she noticed , as they went by a line of horse-chestnut trees that were leafy and about a month in advance of those in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 23 | They went by the sea route ; the night was clear and calm . |
| 24 | They went by the title of ‘ The Proprietors of the Invention for raising Water by Fire ’ , and no one could build an engine without their licence . |
| 25 | The easiest course was to leave the car , which they did by the end doors , and they were still walking in single file through the train when it came into Hammersmith . |
| 26 | Swindon were already on their way to the winners enclosure … when David Mitchell almost got a second … they won by the length of the pitch … |
| 27 | On the way in , they paused by the grave of Eugen of Savoy , buried at the west end of the south aisle chapel . |
| 28 | They paused by the bench they had left earlier , with one revolution of the court complete . |
| 29 | ‘ Il Foro Romano , ’ Nicolo said as they shot by a clutch of tumbled white marble ruins . |
| 30 | Maybe they left by the tunnel he was on about … well , maybe Brett coulda gotten out that way too … ’ |