Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 2 | Within this regime , as it already existed by the end of the Civil War , the salient features were the prominent , but in no sense governing role of the FET ; the restoration of the Catholic Church to a position of monopoly in education and of powerful cultural influence ; the ruthless repression of all forms of opposition ; and above all , the unassailable position and total dominance of Franco himself . |
| 3 | That night , when he awoke in the full certainty that someone else was in the room , he reached for it , where it usually lay by his headrest ; but he had barely moved before he felt its point at his throat . |
| 4 | It also resolved by 49 votes to 46 to set stringent limits on the amount of outside income senators could receive , including the proceeds from individual investment portfolios . |
| 5 | Here it probably happened by sailing into the steep wave resulting in a sudden loss of speed . |
| 6 | It then fell by stages to its present level . |
| 7 | It actually grew by 1.5% . |
| 8 | Indeed , by the middle of that year critics were saying that the cuts imposed at the time of the IMF crisis may have been too harsh , and that fixed investment in manufacturing capacity needed to be stepped up , even though it actually rose by 8 per cent in 1978 . |