Example sentences of "and [vb base] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd go to the SS Great Britain and sit by the breezy river , and I 'd compose my stupid self and compose my story so that I could tell lies confidently instead of giving myself away . |
| 2 | Come and sit by the fire . |
| 3 | A little fat nun had once cried in the heat of Egypt 's afternoon , in the accents of County Cork , that she wished she could take off her flesh and sit by the well in her bones . |
| 4 | ‘ Come and sit by the fire and get warm , ’ he instructed , interrupting her thoughts . |
| 5 | Well I was n't married but I used to go in there and I used to come home er say in Winter if I come home for a w week or two , I go in there , and sit by the fire and have a yard . |
| 6 | ‘ Come and sit by the window with me , ’ she said . |
| 7 | I will make the most of being injured , and go down and sit by the pool for a while and chat to Carlos . ’ |
| 8 | By dusk , though , each day of dignity , Clary would return to his base and sit by the cathedral , with his inseparable friend for comfort — the ‘ funny stuff ’ . |
| 9 | Go and sit by the window . |
| 10 | The centre , if there is one , is in effect granted its limited powers and influence by the members of the group , the states . |
| 11 | This commitment , and the overall pacifist , pro-feminist , libertarian , green and non-exploitative ethos we espouse has generally led to our expressed opinions on the Pembroke Ranges issue being greeted with scepticism and distrust by the climbing establishment . |
| 12 | In the Masters he blew his chances by pushing an over-clubbed second shot into the crowd to take a bogey-five on the last hole and lose by a stroke to Jack Nicklaus after leading going into the last round . |
| 13 | There are important differences between a review by the prosecution and review by a process of police investigation analogous to scientific verification . |
| 14 | This decision was received with disappointment and regret by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 15 | It is quite wrong to posit a pathological process , as Aristotle does with his theory of katharsis , whereby the audience is purged of pity and fear by the solemn events of the play . |
| 16 | I take the point Chairman , and , and suggest by the criticism we will try and get more explicit detail in the future . |
| 17 | When I 'm really unhappy I eat chocolate and raw bacon and sleep by the fridge . ’ |
| 18 | Heath has proposed an alternative ‘ fullerene-road ’ scheme in which fullerenes are formed in the size range of 30–40 carbon atoms and grow by the addition of small carbon radicals . |
| 19 | And yet ‘ Southyork ’ is still guarded by 16 police — costing the local taxpayers £350,000 a year — and kept spick and span by a full team of servants . |
| 20 | NOVELISTS WHO HIDE themselves away for months or years usually emerge from their seclusion nervously clutching a manuscript , hand it over to their publishers , and wait by the phone for some kind of reaction . |
| 21 | We we used to have lots , they used to go my father used to put er a a bird a bird trap er bird second time to catch and we used to pluck them and and them and roast by the fire you know . |
| 22 | A film depicting a universal message of love and hope by the Dutch TV company IKON won the second prize . |
| 23 | In 1980 the parochial church council decided to drop the blessing service because of lack of finance and support by the boat owners . |
| 24 | ‘ They live dangerously and some get caught and die by the law . |
| 25 | knows that loads and loads of people go out there and smoke by the you know |
| 26 | They represent the transfer of energy from place to place , respectively transfer by the mean motion and transfer by the turbulence itself . |
| 27 | She let him help her back up the slope , round the other side of the danger area , and demonstrate by the skeletal walls where the various rooms of the baths lay , and their impressive extent . |
| 28 | The time that an individual has ( literally , his time budget ) is a valuable commodity , and travel by a faster mode of transport can allow more time and leisure to enjoy services once reached . |
| 29 | Answer : Boycott Gatwick and travel by the snow train . |
| 30 | Only five or six farms were involved in this tragedy ; but for a few minutes at least we traverse fields brought into being by the high-handed action of a fifteenth-century squire , and pass by the mounds where the hamlet of Holyoak once stood . |