Example sentences of "[pers pn] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 2 | Can I can I just raise a question er to r to clarify the point before I answer your question that I are am I are we to assume that in response to Mr , erm it 's on the record that there 's a er a request to add , clear expression of local preference I by local planning authorities ? |
| 3 | Keswick ; ore which was his by ancient right . |
| 4 | If , on the other hand , Henry II wished to maintain that the Vexin belonged of old to Normandy and was therefore his by hereditary right , it was safer not to confuse the issue by marrying Alice to one of his sons . |
| 5 | ‘ I wo n't embarrass you by probing , ’ she said kindly . |
| 6 | At this point , the group , already developing the skill of asking ‘ answerable questions ’ from a position of expertise to be shared , ask for further information on the basis of what Mr E had told them : ‘ You mentioned how he can surprise you by occasional good work . |
| 7 | The BBC switches it on for you by remote control smart card technology and training material is sent through the post . ’ |
| 8 | So what they normally do is they also give you by continuous intravenous drip They f have to feed you by this tube , |
| 9 | Try to recall three ideas put to you by various people during the last week . |
| 10 | Think instead of five hundred pounds — in cash — sent to you by special delivery every week . |
| 11 | We have received copies of the letters of objection and petition sent to you by local residents . |
| 12 | Outdoor shops are just sports shops , but instead of a seedy man with a moustache selling you nylon football strips and tennis balls , outdoor shops stock only merchandise connected with hill-walking , climbing , skiing and sometimes canoeing , all of which will be offered to you by rosy-cheeked young sales people in fleecy tops . |
| 13 | In many cases some of the work has been done for you by previous scholars ; so , for example there is a book called Allusions in Ulysses ( which lists allusions made in James Joyce 's novel Ulysses ) . |
| 14 | How , he asks , ‘ come we by general terms , or where find we those general natures they are supposed to stand for ? ’ |
| 15 | A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues of Ightham , were also granted to him by papal indult . |
| 16 | Louis the Pious had done all he could to oust him by encouraging opponents in the region . |
| 17 | SALMAN RUSHDIE made a dramatic television appeal yesterday for a meeting with the Prime Minister to fortify his campaign to end the fatwa sentence of death imposed on him by Iranian fundamentalists . |
| 18 | While Smailovic in Sarajevo plays the Adagio specially written for him by Edinburgh-based composer Nigel Osborne , he will be joined by American cellist Evelyn Elsing at the Capitol in Washington DC , Florian Kitt at the Red Cross Depot in Vienna and music student Diana Isaacs in Edinburgh . |
| 19 | His apprehension arose not out of a fear that she would ruin him by extravagant expenditure but from a neurotic anxiety that if she knew how much money he had put away , she might feel free to leave him . |
| 20 | The perception of social advantage in general abstention from collective bargaining is too remote from the circumstances of the individual worker for him ever to support through the ballot box a general prohibition on trade unions , let alone to abstain privately from their immediate protection in a world where there is no reason to expect other workers to confer a reciprocal advantage on him by similar abstention . |
| 21 | On July 16 Havel read out a 1968 letter found in Moscow and sent to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin , inviting Warsaw Pact forces into Prague . |
| 22 | On July 16 Havel read out a 1968 letter found in Moscow and sent to him by Russian President Boris Yeltsin , inviting Warsaw Pact forces into Prague . |
| 23 | which drew heavily not only on Sharp 's papers but accounts and memories of him by fellow abolitionists . |
| 24 | He claimed that he was the victim of a " Stalinist " campaign to oust him by fellow NSF members who had used information on him obtained from Securitate files to publish smears in the NSF-controlled media . |
| 25 | James Watt had thought about moving steam engines , having had the idea suggested to him by various people . |
| 26 | Part of his speed-of-reflex training as a kung-fu master had been to evade , or divert with forearm blocks , spears flung at him by other trainees in the martial arts school . |
| 27 | His faltering authority was demonstrated in December when an extensive Cabinet reshuffle was forced upon him by factional leaders . |
| 28 | On Aug. 11 McCarthy delivered to Pérez de Cuéllar the letter given him by Islamic Jihad . |
| 29 | Dyer was eventually censured by a committee of inquiry , but substantial sums were raised for him by public subscription and he was adulated in the press , the House of Commons , and — especially — the House of Lords . |
| 30 | They said one MP was in tears , such was the pressure put on him by Tory whips . |