Example sentences of "by which [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 2 | The idea of citizenship itself had a special status during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods as politicians , philosophers , educationalists , and social scientists were continually calling for a revival of the concept , by which they had in mind a form of social organization stressing harmony , duty , service , self-realization , rationality , and morally good behaviour . |
| 3 | The Scots were meanwhile retreating along the same route by which they had advanced , but to a very different reception . |
| 4 | It would be better , they decided , to retrace their steps and find the door by which they had left . |
| 5 | At this point , it would have been pleasant to record a series of strategies by which they had been facilitated . |
| 6 | Russians made repeated attempts to break through the encircling enemy — only and always to be driven back by the murderous fire of Francois 's 1st Corps , which barred the line of retreat along the route by which they had earlier advanced . |
| 7 | He stopped almost opposite the hole by which they had come up , and Hazel joined him . |
| 8 | Indeed , the slope was no more than gentle for some way back along the line by which they had come ; but he had been preoccupied with the idea of danger in the open and had not noticed the change . |
| 9 | As they passed between the two pillars along the path by which they had entered , the Wheel cleared with plenty of room to spare . |
| 10 | Maurice took it without a word and , after a moment , shambled off up the path by which they had come . |
| 11 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 12 | He joined her in the kitchen , and she saw that the descriptions which had reached her through the field telegraph and by which she had recognised him , were accurate . |
| 13 | Ardent supporters and a number of ministers applauded her resolve , stressing the narrowness of the margin by which she had failed to achieve an outright win ( blaming the complicated election rules for the stalemate ) , and expressed full confidence in victory in the second ballot . |
| 14 | Her humble beginnings , the magical means by which she had come to share her half-sister 's privileged life and had later by the queen-dowager 's design taken her place , had been part of some pre-ordained plan . |
| 15 | The mother by this time had not acted upon the terms of the ‘ settlement , ’ as it had been termed , by which she had undertaken to commence divorce proceedings . |
| 16 | She thrust the exercise book into a coat pocket and scrambled to the window by which she had entered . |
| 17 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 18 | But the door by which she had entered was not the only way out . |
| 19 | A building society challenged the validity of transitional provisions in the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 by which it had to pay to the revenue on specified quarterly dates the tax in respect of dividends and interest it had paid to its members . |
| 20 | Titch steered close in to the point and Wycliffe could see the broad path of the Wheel and the mound of turves by which it had been shot into the air before its final plunge into the sea . |
| 21 | There was no one there , only the little door by which I had entered . |
| 22 | At length these bitter fruits of sin , and a sense of dependency on his providence for the averting those dreadful consequences with which others were imminently threatened , brought me to the repentance and gave me a victory over those guilty passions by which I had been so long enslaved . |
| 23 | My best course would have been to follow the track to the village , strike the road , and then to go along the road until I met the track by which I had come from the shore . |
| 24 | The 21-year-old was spending her first night at Sussex University , near Brighton , when she was woken at about 4am by a man who turned on the bedroom light , held a knife to her throat and raped her , before escaping through the open window by which he had entered . |
| 25 | But sixteen days later , on 18 February 1756 , Miller quickly wrote to apologise for giving the wrong name of the ship by which he had sent seeds , roses and cedar cones , and also to thank Bartram for his letter of 9 December in which he mentioned he would like the Norway Maple . |
| 26 | Scrambling to his feet , he took the case and hung it by its handle on to a support-post of the fence , then quickly climbed back over , lifted down the case , and hurried back across the glade and down the path by which he had come , finally disappearing into the trees . |
| 27 | Since I did n't know Jackie in his racing years , I can only speak of his character as I 've known it since I975 , a period by which he had already become obsessed with driver safety and a real force in improving conditions for drivers . |
| 28 | Of course , on any theory , the ceremony by which he had been invested conformed to no canonical rules of election or investiture , and it is astonishing — or rather , it would be astonishing in anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of Canon Law — that among all his other objections , Anselm never mentioned the defective procedure as a reason for refusing the office . |
| 29 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 30 | I slipped in by the cemetery gate , as I left , and he went up through the trees to the path by which he had made his way to join me . |