Example sentences of "had [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make matters worse it was generally believed that the spirit of the child would remain in the body of the mother , and so for three days after the actual birth the mother had to sit by a wood and bamboo fire and sweat out the child 's spirit so that the child should be completed and the mother freed from what was now an alien spirit inside her . |
| 2 | Ibn Fayoud had stopped by a Jaguar XJS . |
| 3 | But 1961 social class II fertility was almost as high as that of class III , while that of IV and V — semi-skilled and unskilled workers — had fallen by a tenth or more . |
| 4 | There was much disenchantment with the policies of the past ; he had won by a landslide in the Electoral College ; his party controlled the Senate ; he had run ahead of quite a few southern Democrats in the House and he was clearly an exceptional performer on television . |
| 5 | It had n't , and the horse he would have put money on had won by a length , and he was twelve-and-six out of pocket . |
| 6 | Aristide , a left-wing Roman Catholic priest , had won by a landslide in the presidential elections on Dec. 16 . |
| 7 | In the 1990 general election the UMNO candidate in Bayu had won by a majority of 5,774 . |
| 8 | Tourism authorities responded quickly to reports of the attack by issuing assurances that policing of Dublin streets had increased significantly during the past year and that crime against tourists had dropped by a third . |
| 9 | He was also working for the Department of Archaeology and the Museum and , greatest profit of all , teaching English to the daughter of a rich immigrant Hungarian Jewish family who paid him , for just two lessons a week , more money than his poor father had earned by a hard week 's slog in the docks . |
| 10 | But if the two of them had come by a windfall of some sort , she was n't going to ask questions about it . |
| 11 | Rafael Eitan resigned as Minister of Agriculture on Dec. 24 in protest at Likud 's opposition to proposals for the direct election of the Prime Minister ; the Likud central committee had voted by a large majority on Dec. 23 against the direct election of the Prime Minister . |
| 12 | It was reported on April 7 that Lithuania 's Supreme Council had voted by a majority of 70 to suspend the mandate of Deputy Virgilijus Cepaitis . |
| 13 | The club 's board had voted by a majority to remove Venables as chief executive , and Sir Donald said he did not believe it would be ‘ right or sensible ’ for him to make an order overriding that . |
| 14 | And Stena Sealink claimed that the total market had grown by a mammoth 39pc over the first four months of 1993 compared with the previous year . |
| 15 | A study of the Ecuadorian censuses for 1954 and 1974 estimated that production on the smaller units had grown by an average of 2.7 per cent per year during the period , but on the larger units , growth was at the rate of 1.2 per cent . |
| 16 | Analysis of long-term temperature records from 120 sites in the northern hemisphere found that desertified areas had warmed by an average of 1.23 degrees centigrade . |
| 17 | By the end of the inquiry the Board admitted that this had risen by a further 10 per cent . |
| 18 | That 's the end of the game , that 's the end of it because on on erm once h Holland needed to lose right , they had to lose , Holland , and er Poland needed to beat Holland and England had to win by a seven goal majority I E seven nil or eight one , seven one would n't have been enough even if Holland had lost |
| 19 | His little-boy mask had slipped by a fraction , a sure sign of the energies that had been taken from him in the past hour , and someone else was looking out — someone much harder , more calculating . |
| 20 | And then the moment had passed , and tall and tanned and fit in the sunshine she had walked down the green street with the gardens either side of her , and had known by an instinctive glance that her mother still lived there , that nothing had changed . |
| 21 | If , instead , he had replied by a whole sentence — say — ‘ Mr Smith 's away this week , gone up North to see his old mother ’ this would have been understood whereas a proper name ( Edinburgh ) out of the blue and with no helpful context is n't easy ! |
| 22 | Until the Sheffield incident , the MoD had abided by an agreement with Exocet 's French manufacturers that the British would not open up the missile 's guidance section . |
| 23 | It was officially reported that 36,000 possible offenders had surrendered by a Nov. 10 deadline imposed in August by the Supreme People 's Procuratorate . |
| 24 | Tony and I embarked on a consideration of Child Benefit but before many minutes had gone by a note was sent in informing us that Peter Carrington had resigned . |
| 25 | In 1985 their consumption was roughly the same as in 1973 , even though real GNP had increased by a third . |
| 26 | Thus , since relative incidence ( new cases of known opioid use ) reached 356 during 1985–6 , this suggests that prevalence had increased by a further 95 individuals . |
| 27 | A survey in 1992 showed that chough numbers had increased by a third since the previous survey 10 years earlier ; 1,247 pairs were counted , compared with 950 pairs in 1982 . |
| 28 | She was breathing quickly , and I realized she had run by a quicker way to get ahead of me . |
| 29 | With the wars of this century , it had shrunk by a third . |