Example sentences of "by [pron] you [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it is n't interesting to be courted by someone you know . ’ |
| 2 | It was n't very fair to feel betrayed by someone you loved , someone very close to you , simply because they 'd had the misfortune to die suddenly … |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant feeling to find out you 've been taken for a ride by someone you trusted . ’ |
| 4 | You you more or less guessed I suppose it would somehow get get to be known by somebody you know . |
| 5 | In fact , college teachers are probably more interested in the reasoning by which you reach your answer than they are in the substantive answer itself . |
| 6 | Metabolism is the process by which you take in food , use it and convert it into energy and heat , er several days , so there were several days after the baby 's born when it 's really very much at risk of getting cold injury . |
| 7 | ( c ) A draft timetable ( which can be amended later ) showing the dates by which you hope to progress your project from now until the date of submission . |
| 8 | That 's the formula by way — way — by which you get yourself nearer to disaster . |
| 9 | Perhaps you think that Boy does not sound too beautiful to you , by which you mean he does not sound your type . |
| 10 | When he came back he looked very grave and said , " Great king , I know well what sorry news it will be to you , but the cause of your sickness is those very lettuces by which you set such store . " |
| 11 | Yes , you can rely on the various methods by which you draw a shape on a chart and it tells you automatically how many stitches and rows you need but for those machines that are not so sophisticated you are left with simple maths . |
| 12 | It is up to you to choose the definition by which you wish to live your life . |
| 13 | The amount by which you change the drift allowance should not exceed 2° to 5° at any one time . |
| 14 | The law relating to covenants is quite complex but basically a covenant is a legally-binding document by which you transfer some of your income to a charity for a stated period . |
| 15 | You can not see a mother relating to her child , only the behaviour by which you infer the state of that relationship . |
| 16 | And this rent reduction , interest rate reduction together with the kind of settling accounts procedure which presumably will come out of this is the means by which you mobilize the masses and once you 've got them mobilized , you can then move on to land reform . |
| 17 | All attempts to please him in any other way are mere mockery , and insults to the things by which you endeavour to do so . |
| 18 | . And erm she goes oh sh he knows your reputation , I mean he not , maybe not by face but erm but he 'll know you , you know , just , he 'll know your reputation or by who you hang around with , I went I 've never done |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm puzzled by something you 've turned up , ’ he said . |
| 20 | I am trailing them along the line of their tea-breaks and their modest working lunches of packet soup followed by something you eat with mustard . |
| 21 | Are there any ways in which you react now to conflict situations which have been affected or constrained by something you have learned from the past ? |
| 22 | ‘ The last thing you ever thought about was being confronted by anyone you 'd offended . |
| 23 | What so you can pace , be paced by it you mean ? |
| 24 | Oh at least you , you know stuck by what you thought . |
| 25 | So tonight the wraps are off and I think you 'll agreeably surprised by what you hear ! |
| 26 | Has that assessment been confirmed by what you 've found ? |
| 27 | anything inside your brackets multiplied by what you 've got outside just the way you would have two times brackets three add six close brackets . |
| 28 | But it 's self employed and you did n't want to be self employed by what you 've just told me . |
| 29 | Erm and then any domestic policy which affects the outside , so that 's a projection of domestic interests erm into the outside world , so I 'll show you what I 've written down and it 's influenced by what you 've got in that book by Clarke , I 'm afraid it falls off the end a bit , foreign policy is a government activity concerned with relations between the state and other actors in the international arena , that should be . |
| 30 | Yet the final equation of what you can afford to spend on a new car is likely to be influenced by what you get for the old one . |