Example sentences of "they [vb past] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth . |
| 2 | Indeed , so violent was their hatred for one another that , in a much-quoted scene , they actually came to blows when they met by chance on the railway platform at Mukden . |
| 3 | They met by accident , several hours later , in one of the bright , high-ceilinged corridors leading to the gardens . |
| 4 | Ian Barnes , Jessie 's cousin , had also gone to Social Services that day and they met by accident . |
| 5 | The kings were not simply put on their thrones by churchmen ; they were heirs and successors of barbarian chiefs ; they ruled by force and fear not by ideals ; the fact of politics not the ideals of churchmen were the stuff of their lives . |
| 6 | KILLERS : The Krays when they ruled by fear |
| 7 | Pursued there and besieged , they fled by night to raise a loyal army , but found it pitiful in numbers . |
| 8 | That the outlaws had not in fact appeared was due to the violence of the storm and to the message which that very evening they received by smoke signal . |
| 9 | They came by road , they came by water , and the arrival of the railway much later added to Rorschach 's significance . |
| 10 | The cattle landed at Holyhead , Birkenhead and Fishguard ; and they came by rail to Norwich . |
| 11 | They came by coach , car and on foot from all corners of the country , and from France with a team from Faverolles once again supporting the event . |
| 12 | They came by road , they came by water , and the arrival of the railway much later added to Rorschach 's significance . |
| 13 | After living in London for a while the couple spent a few days in Bournemouth and on St Swithun 's Day 1875 they came by steamer to Swanage . |
| 14 | They ate by candlelight , with highlights from Turandot playing , but received no visitors of any sort . |
| 15 | They ate by candlelight ( ‘ Electricity , my dear , is so cruel , ’ Lionel told Mrs Beeley ) , and from where she sat throughout the meal she could feel his gaze , steady , as if he took the image of her inwards . |
| 16 | They appealed by way of case stated , submitting that the patient was not ‘ unlawfully at large ’ and the police officers were not entitled to use reasonable force to enter the premises and were not acting in the execution of their duty . |
| 17 | In 1416 the French made a serious attempt to regain Harfleur , which they blockaded by land and sea . |
| 18 | They started by brainstorming sights and sounds , and produced two lists , shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 19 | Then in the 18th century , either the choir was awful or the weather was awful , er nobody 's too sure which , but they then settled for just seeing the one thing they knew by memory which was this Eucharistic hymn : Todaym Parchym that they sang in the hall every night as a grace , and that 's how it 's gone on . |
| 20 | They went by train . |
| 21 | they went by train , yes . |
| 22 | they went by train . |
| 23 | On the Shankhill Road they saw by accident a person whom Joan had talked with during the WLAA campaign for legal justice . |
| 24 | Older people were much more likely than the young to be unable to describe what they meant by health . |
| 25 | What they had by way of this was largely impressionistic , qualitative and suggestive rather than confirmatory . |
| 26 | She wondered why they slept by day and travelled by night and decided to ask them when they woke up . |
| 27 | However , his Lordship considered the second submission , that a contract had been created in respect of the provision of and payment for the valuation report , to be well-founded , because the declaration in question consisted of an offer by the society to provide a copy of the report to the pursuers in exchange for payment , which they accepted by signing and returning the form . |
| 28 | Ben and Elizabeth found themselves doing what many others did in a similar predicament — rather than wait for banns to be read , they married by licence . |
| 29 | They travelled by sea and by land to distant countries in search of aromatics and artefacts . |
| 30 | They travelled by ferry , and among the places that they visited were Paris , Lille and Bruges . |