Example sentences of "by [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little by little you will start to release any unnecessary tension that may have been stored unknowingly for many years . |
| 2 | But little by little he would piece it all together . |
| 3 | He 's an expert on the buildings history and if the building is bought up and say , converted to offices , would like one or 2 rooms put by so he can set up a museum of psychiatry . |
| 4 | ‘ At about 6am they said I should eat something and if nothing had happened by 8am they 'd ask a doctor to break my waters . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been saving for a while now , ’ Yanto began , ‘ and by tonight I shall have a hundred and fifty . |
| 6 | If he 's in police custody as he may well be by now they 'll never let her see him , ’ Hugo said . |
| 7 | You 'd thought by now they would have sorted it out . |
| 8 | Still , to look on the bright side : if they had been together all this time , by now they might already be a dull settled couple , instead of which the long separation had preserved the thrill of courtship in their marriage , with letters passing between them constantly . |
| 9 | It came in a stone mug , deliciously cold and wiping out in one mouthful the heat of the morning and the traces of last night 's headache ( he wondered briefly how the Engineer regiment was getting on in its battle positions ; by now they should be dug in and pausing for sips of lukewarm water or barely warmer tea . |
| 10 | Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on . |
| 11 | And Alexander McGlashan of Eastertyre — you know them all , and they know you , and by now they will be expecting us . |
| 12 | By now they will not be eating , so all the food you threw in and did n't bother to remove ‘ in case they got hungry ’ , will be rotting down and raising the ammonia level . |
| 13 | By now they will be digging worms on some damp football pitch in Rottingdean . |
| 14 | For by now they must be in Matthew . |
| 15 | As you are getting used to it by now we shall start with Gauss 's law . |
| 16 | They knew by now we 'd think they 'd run out . |
| 17 | After ten minutes I heard the camera motor stop as the film ran out , but the director , knowing by now we could n't use a foot of it , let the old boy run on until he had finished . |
| 18 | By now we could have six more . |
| 19 | By now you 'll have decided what to eat on Christmas and Boxing Day . |
| 20 | By now you 'll be out and about all the time on your scooter but , just in case the second Thursday of the month should dawn wet and windy again , I have chosen yours as this month 's Star Letter . |
| 21 | By now you 'll have got well used to your new job , I expect . |
| 22 | By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor — no matter what the problems or obstacles . |
| 23 | By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading . |
| 24 | By now you will be screaming that you 've been conned . |
| 25 | I am certain that by now you will be able to see a significant improvement to your body . |
| 26 | There are no standard procedures , in fact , by now you will have realised that the ‘ flying fantasies ’ are unique to their creators and , although some sell theirs on a commercial basis , it is a case that , if you want to make one , then you have to devise your own creation . |
| 27 | By now you will no doubt have mastered the method of crossing the sets of stitches and may feel like adding more cables to a garment . |
| 28 | By now you will have gathered that our famous range of 3,000 carpet options is just part of the Allied home furnishing collection . |
| 29 | By now you will have a good picture of the basic background , and armed with this knowledge you should feel confident enough to contemplate buying a rug . |
| 30 | By now you will be quite sure that we are " crackers " — " elegant works of art " indeed . |