Example sentences of "by [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first nine were reissued earlier and were welcomed by me last October . |
| 2 | So , by my twentieth gig I was playing the Rainbow in Finsbury Park with Cozy , supporting Suzi Quatro , and was more than a bit nervous . |
| 3 | This same point about the divisibility of roles which are ordinarily assumed to be interchangeable is further exemplified by my second example which is another piece of classic ethnography . |
| 4 | By my second meeting , I was up to 20 words . |
| 5 | Many readers must have been shocked , and therefore some delighted , by my first description of legal pragmatism in Chapter 3 . |
| 6 | pair call me by my first name too as if |
| 7 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |
| 8 | By my first weekend at the Centre I was that very dangerous creature , one worse than a missionary , a convert . |
| 9 | And McGrindle , very matter of fact though drunk as usual : I have sixteen children , seven by my first marriage , four by my second , my second wife had two of her own , that makes thirteen , and three from my third , sixteen , and I am proud to say I have been able to give them all a good education and every chance in life without ever compromising my integrity . |
| 10 | Two by my first marriage . |
| 11 | But I suppose I 'm prejudiced by my first sight of her , a passion-killer if ever there was one . |
| 12 | But if there had been any doubt in my mind it would have been immediately resolved by my first breath of the crisp , tangy air . |
| 13 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 14 | I think that 's , that 's , that 's , that 's covered by my first point . |
| 15 | ‘ Both by my first husband . |
| 16 | By my first week in-country ( my third on mefloquine ) I had reduced sensation in my legs , was waking up with a start from severe nightmares which subjectively had lasted for hours ( in reality for only 15 min ) , and occasionally wondering what it would be like to jump the eight floors from my hotel room . |
| 17 | I was at sea as an officer in the Navy by my seventeenth birthday . |
| 18 | ‘ By my third year people in the lab used to joke ‘ Pountaine 's in , it must be Tuesday ’ ‘ , he remembers . |
| 19 | In truth , the first word I ever spoke was ‘ Granpa ’ , the second ‘ farthing ’ , and I could repeat his whole sales patter word for word by my third birthday . |
| 20 | Then by my sixteenth birthday , I 'd already had the baby . |
| 21 | She mostly calls me by my last name . |
| 22 | By its fifth birthday Playboy was beating Hefner 's old employer , Esquire , with a circulation of 850,000 . |
| 23 | The typical climber develops a thick strong stem which , although pliable enough when young to be bent and trained to a support , becomes woody and rigid by its second year . |
| 24 | There are thus ( 1÷φ possible samples each defined by its first member and all equally likely if the starting member is chosen by selecting a random integer from the range 1 , 2 , … , ( 1÷φ ) . |
| 25 | As far as the 1975 election is concerned VUPP had a greater proportion of seats than was warranted by its first preference vote for two reasons . |
| 26 | In any case a company formed under the Companies Act has a considerable power of altering the objects stated in the Memorandum of Association which is signed by its first members at the formation of the company , subject to the power of the holders of fifteen per cent of its shares or debentures to apply to the court to cancel an alteration . |
| 27 | When it was first recorded it was known as the Fox , named by its first owner who was a furrier . |
| 28 | Introduced to Britain by the Romans and to North America by its first settlers , it has long been used all round the Mediterranean bowl , and continues to be used there today . |
| 29 | In 1957 its circulation rose from four thousand to twenty thousand by its fourth issue . |
| 30 | However , it gradually fell into disuse and was finally abandoned by its last users , the public notaries , in the sixteenth century . |