Example sentences of "by [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , since there was but one way in , by that way he must go . |
| 2 | Fired up by that ambition he turned the Supper on end , and began to squeeze burnt umber directly on to the canvas , spreading it with a palette knife until the scene beneath was completely obscured . |
| 3 | A misrepresentation by the accused that the law was such and such when it was in fact different , and by that misrepresentation he obtained property , will lead to a conviction of obtaining property by deception . |
| 4 | Reduced by that process he fell back into the void , the shrieking loneliness of the proud ego . |
| 5 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
| 6 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 7 | By that time he had left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade . |
| 8 | By that time he was sharing a flat at 46 Belsize Square , Hampstead , with Pamela Chrimes , and was making ‘ a gorgeous carpet ’ . |
| 9 | Two or three years later he might suddenly be appointed a full-time magistrate , even though by that time he had probably forgotten all of the law which he had learnt . |
| 10 | By that time he had been twice smitten . |
| 11 | By that time he had opened the door at the end of the car . |
| 12 | Viktor was twelve when the war ended and by that time he had forgotten how to cry . |
| 13 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 14 | By that time he had found a very individual voice . |
| 15 | When steel began to supersede iron in the 1880s he developed the Brymbo ironworks into the largest steelworks in north Wales , and by that time he had also acquired a number of important collieries and other industrial concerns . |
| 16 | By that time he 'd upped and gone . |
| 17 | By that time he could have arranged to be called away . |
| 18 | By that time he had not only set in motion all the police retinue that attends on sudden and unexplained death , but also attended their ministrations throughout , seen the body examined , photographed , cased in its plastic shell and removed by ambulance to the forensic laboratory , delegated certain necessary duties , placated the police doctor and the pathologist , come to terms with the inevitable grief and rage which do not reach the headlines , and made dispositions within his own mind for the retribution which is so often aborted . |
| 19 | By that time he 'd turned her head so much with tales of the big city and the life they could have there , she 'd have followed him anywhere . |
| 20 | Er the most interesting case erm , I remember was a chap who erm having completed his course erm joined the R A F and erm he was missing at Dieppe when they had the rather abortive attempt at landing at Dieppe during the war and er , but he was never erm posted as as erm having died and erm it was years afterwards , it was in the nineteen fifties in fact before we could get the Department of Education to agree to the loan being written off because erm obviously he was , by that time he had to be assumed as |
| 21 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 22 | In fact then he by that time he was living in Leeds , so he had to pay for the cost of removal from my store to Leeds . |
| 23 | By professional training he had the diplomat 's sense of nuances . |
| 24 | By careful arrangement he had been lured away while preparations were made . |
| 25 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 26 | By this act he performed fealty . |
| 27 | And — ’ with a grateful glance at Benedict , who was standing by , mute , moved as he had not expected to be by this reunion he had brought about ‘ — thanks to this intelligent and resourceful young man , it is over now . ’ |
| 28 | Excited by this discovery he announces a novel and profound moral principle , a new addendum to the catalogue of human rights . |
| 29 | By this period he was seriously addicted to the tranquillizer , nembutal , and there seem to have been a number of objects to which he attached his fears — lifts and large animals among them . |
| 30 | Lenin 's attitude , in so far as it is discernible , will be looked at in a moment , but by this time he was more cut off through illness from daily supervision of affairs . |