Example sentences of "by [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This information will be considered by ourselves at the key features review and due diligence stages . |
| 2 | If they 'd murdered four thousand Danuese but said three thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine had been killed by ourselves in the Danuese Civil War , then it meant they had killed only one . |
| 3 | Despite a lengthy conversation with the chaplain , Paine could not be persuaded to attend divine worship and consequently he was placed in a room by himself during the time of the service . |
| 4 | So he swept the paths and repaired the fences and at lunchtime most days would go and sit by himself on the benches , watching the people watching the animals , and sometimes looking at his old friend the golden eagle , who was growing old with him . |
| 5 | Dickon plays by himself on the moors for hours , with the wild birds , and the sheep , and the other animals . ’ |
| 6 | The lessee in a lease — the defendant so covenanted in this case — covenants in effect that he or his assignee will perform the covenants and observe the conditions contained in it ; and when , as in the present instance , the defendant sets up no performance by himself of the covenants sued on , his defence must be either that his assignee has performed them or that his assignee is in some way as between himself and the lessor absolved from performance . |
| 7 | Sir Henry agreed to help in this way , and to go by himself to the Stapletons that evening . |
| 8 | Dexter tapped his feet in time to the music and eyed a handsome youth leaning by himself against the bar . |
| 9 | He never shared their meals , eating by himself in the parlour with Miss Evans waiting on him , but sometimes he would come into the kitchen while they were having their tea and say , ‘ Well , Caroline , it 's a fine day for the race , is n't it ? ’ |
| 10 | Keith goes for the goal line , looks around , he 's all by himself in the end zone and he does his patented wiggle , the ancient dance of triumph and sex , all hips and contained muscle and bursting joy , forget the penalty , celebrating his touchdown and his run and his body , and little Jimmy Grady from the fourth year is standing on the path looking at him . |
| 11 | I was saying , oh yeah erm Shrimpy like , we , me and Scott were playing snooker and I , I came in to see if like , either of you , anyone else wanted to play doubles and like , Swimp , Shrimpy was just sat by himself in the middle of the floor , cross-legged just sat there like a little pixie or something ! |
| 12 | Many of those involved had reached the conclusion that the philanthropic provision of youth services was inadequate by itself for the task of tackling the economic , social , and what were coming to be regarded as educational problems concerning working-class adolescents . |
| 13 | Japanese company Dit Co Ltd was showing some preliminary versions of two products developed by itself in the network field — software yet unnamed that enables a Unix machine to be used as a Macintosh back-up device over a TCP-IP network , and an FTP protocol engine which is ready for use in Macintosh applications . |
| 14 | Once upon a time there was a white cloud which drifted all by itself in the clear blue sky . |
| 15 | This is , in fact , not used very much by itself in the variety of English being described here , where questions are usually grammatically marked . |
| 16 | Mary-Claude 's pregnancy had been troublesome from the start , even without the stress of a month 's separation and having to cope by herself with the move back from Cyprus , and Coleman was exhausted from a gruelling month of detailed debriefings by a stream of DIA officers and analysts at an assortment of Ramada Inns in the Baltimore/Washington area . |
| 17 | She loved to walk by herself on the wild lonely moors , with her dog Keeper running by her side . |
| 18 | But when Jasmine was born they put Joan in a room by herself at the hospital so she could n't see other fathers cuddling their first-born as Bobby would have done . |
| 19 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 20 | The final cost of the garden was $5 million , almost entirely financed by herself through the sale of those deceptively decorated polyester sculptures , perfume and furniture . |
| 21 | Her English teacher found her crying by herself over the job of rearranging the drama cupboard . |
| 22 | Sitting by herself in the kitchen with coffee , looking at the golden forsythia she was aglow with health , energy , accomplishment . |
| 23 | So sometimes she would sit out a dance or two by herself in the outhouse , by the Gironde , by the Garonne , in the Haut-Médoc , the Graves , Entre-Deux-Mers . |
| 24 | However , Victoria 's weekly bath was a ritual , a ceremonial , absorbing all Aunt Margaret 's attention and taking up a great deal of time , and Melanie was by herself in the kitchen , which was warm and smug and complacent since its work was finished for the day . |
| 25 | She hated their untidy house and noisy children , and preferred playing by herself in the garden . |
| 26 | So Rosalba dipped the hook , looped the stitch , drew out the thread , and laughed all by herself in the cool dark room . |
| 27 | She sat by herself in the dining room and looked at me over Anne 's head . |
| 28 | Drinking Irish whisky by herself in the Ladies ' Cloakroom ? " |
| 29 | Then they secured a base at Bo'ness and are very proud of the fact that they have reconstructed the branch line by themselves without the aid of massive outside funding . |
| 30 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |