Example sentences of "by [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " 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 | He is a god by whose dealings one lives , the father and mother of all men , alone by himself without an equal . " |
| 5 | ‘ I suddenly feel old , Dexter , ’ she shouted , paddling through the crowd towards Eddy Russell , who sat by himself on a huge mahogany settle on the right of the door . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Dickon plays by himself on the moors for hours , with the wild birds , and the sheep , and the other animals . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His collections , put together painstakingly by himself over a long lifetime , and including large quantities of newscuttings , ephemera , overlapping narrative autobiography and correspondence , came to the British Museum ( as it then was ) through his family . |
| 10 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 11 | Sir Henry agreed to help in this way , and to go by himself to the Stapletons that evening . |
| 12 | Dexter tapped his feet in time to the music and eyed a handsome youth leaning by himself against the bar . |
| 13 | This is the one-off SB–307B NC19904 which was built in 1938 for Howard Hughes for his attempt on the round-the-world record ( then held by himself in a Lockheed 14 ! ) . |
| 14 | Presently , as he sat by himself in a remote corner of the banqueting hall , he noticed on the wall beside him an ascending column of white ants ; as they reached the ceiling they spread their wings and slowly drifted down in a delicate living veil . |
| 15 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 16 | He was sure that her withdrawal meant nothing except that she was happy and occupied but he felt oddly lonely , as if she had deliberately left him by himself in an empty room . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | The error here is to isolate doubt from faith and unbelief and consider it strictly by itself as a mere mechanism of human knowing . |
| 21 | If presence was inadequate by itself as a strategy to extend the Kingdom in the ministry of Christ , it is even more deficient when left to his stumbling followers . |
| 22 | Use the accessory adaptor by itself with a wallpaper scraper and your Steamatic can also help take the hard work out of wallpaper stripping . |
| 23 | The little tree stood by itself on a table in the centre of the room . |
| 24 | However , the existence of a certain level of common values is no indication by itself of a ground for peace . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Once upon a time there was a white cloud which drifted all by itself in the clear blue sky . |
| 28 | This is , in fact , not used very much by itself in the variety of English being described here , where questions are usually grammatically marked . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She loved to walk by herself on the wild lonely moors , with her dog Keeper running by her side . |