Example sentences of "by [pron] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge , as the Gods who all things know . |
| 2 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 3 | It is the experience of listening to the responses or readings which have been triggered by them which has led me to question the nature of the arguments usually put forward by antiracists to explain racism . |
| 4 | If a council crossed an upper threshold implied by them it ran the risk of being capped . |
| 5 | Cos it really has been extremely well managed , extremely well run , er not by me I 've just received the ballot papers . |
| 6 | Yeah , I said it 's due to go off now , I said , half past three and we waited and waited and he said well it 's ten to four by me he said and I have n't heard one . |
| 7 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 8 | His tragic loss was shared with his wife Sally and daughter Katie by everyone who knew him . |
| 9 | ‘ The respect in which he was held by everyone who knew him was reflected in the very large numbers that attended . ’ |
| 10 | This year , that concern can be put into words by everyone who takes part . |
| 11 | Despite his many diocesan commitments Father Conlin remained above all a pastoral priest , with an abiding concern for people as individuals , even if this was often hidden by his mischievous sense of humour , it was always recognised by everyone who met him . |
| 12 | Strongly stereotypical Creole features should be salient and positively valued as a symbol of identity , so we would expect these particular features of Creole to be accommodated to by everyone who attempts to engage in " chattin' Patois " . |
| 13 | Several of the big bream waters I fish respond best to maggots , but this is only because maggots are continually thrown in by everyone who fishes there . |
| 14 | It was generally believed that if services were made available free to all , then they would be used by everyone who needed them . |
| 15 | The advantages : far greater connectivity and portability of application between systems , and information and resources that can be shared by everyone who needs them and has authorisation to access them . |
| 16 | What to do in a democratic society with the errant or aberrant citizen of genius — this question , fumbled at or glossed over by everyone who has written on Pound 's case ( jurists and psychiatrists , as well as biographers and critics ) , is here posed more starkly , and explored more searchingly , then ever before . |
| 17 | She was respected by everyone she worked with and was brilliant at the job . |
| 18 | Stephen O'Brien is a remarkable man , liked and respected by everyone he comes into contact with . |
| 19 | The Apostle Paul writing to the believers in Rome said ‘ We also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement . ’ |
| 20 | Anne Plantagenet , meanwhile , had divorced Exeter and married Thomas St Leger , by whom she had a daughter , also called Anne . |
| 21 | , Thomas ( 1860–1900 ) , physicist , was born 23 May 1860 in Ballyhagan , Kilmore , county Armagh , Ireland , the youngest of three sons , the eldest of whom died young ( there were no daughters ) , of Abraham Dawson Preston , a gentleman farmer of Mulladry , Kilmore , and his wife Anne , daughter of John Hall , quartermaster , and widow of John Ritchie , by whom she had a daughter . |
| 22 | Her husband , by whom she had two sons , was chaplain of All Souls and lecturer in modern history at several undergraduate colleges . |
| 23 | Anne Plantagenet , meanwhile , had divorced Exeter and married Thomas St Leger , by whom she had a daughter , also called Anne . |
| 24 | Her death comes just one month after she split from her second husband by whom she had a daughter less than a year ago . |
| 25 | The rape of virgins is a crime imputed by a woman to the man by whom she says she has been forcibly ravished against the king 's peace . |
| 26 | For the next 15 years she was to lead an undistinguished life of secluded domesticity until her marriage to a middle-aged magistrate , by whom she bore three children . |
| 27 | In 1914 he was living with Angelina Beloff , a Russian engraver several years his senior by whom he had a child . |
| 28 | When a mail robber was run to earth there — he was living with his sister by whom he had three little boys — the local paper was bombarded with letters from the outraged citizens of our suburban town complaining on both counts : the threat to property and the affront to public morals . |
| 29 | The husband had an extra-marital relationship with another woman by whom he had had a child in September 1985 . |
| 30 | He was to marry Josephine Fricker , of Toronto , in 1935 , by whom he had a son , Christopher . |