Example sentences of "he [vb -s] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both cases this is a real emergency , because in the event of a cable break the pilot does not have time to realise what is wrong , and he may well stall and spin if he flies by attitude and tries to turn without checking the actual speed . |
| 2 | … he goes by the carved shafts at cross-roads , pours oil on them from his flask , falls on his knees , makes an obeisance , and only then moves on . |
| 3 | He goes by bus . " |
| 4 | So if it was me walking his dog as he goes by he said we 'll see what , he said we 're rebuilding a new bungalow on the insurance claim . |
| 5 | Though he sits by the gate of Shiloh , in his blindness watching the road , he is nearly the last in the town to hear the news . |
| 6 | The mother 's death is portrayed in a macabre scene where Walter is unsure whether she has died , or even what death is , and allows the corpse to rot for a few days while he sits by her side . |
| 7 | He sits by the hour with three or four words on his typing paper and listens to the noise from the room of a neighbour . |
| 8 | He sits by a globe with his back to the police station , looking south towards the Cabo de Hornos Hotel , towards the low hills of Tierra del Fuego and the unseen coast of the distant Antarctic . |
| 9 | He sits by the door and I read in my chair , and we 're like two people who 've been married years . |
| 10 | To a farm worker , for example , a community centre represents the antithesis of what he understands by ‘ community ’ . |
| 11 | He wins by being fair to his people and resisting any selfish and unfair demands on their part . |
| 12 | he holds by virtue of being connected with the first company ; |
| 13 | Indeed , he concludes by suggesting : |
| 14 | His fifth point consists of four main practical applications and he concludes by answering twenty arguments against conversion . |
| 15 | He concludes by suggesting that the relationship between research , policy and practice concerning offenders is often not either an equal nor an easy one and that it is not characterized by consistency . |
| 16 | He concludes by suggesting that membership of the group that accepts children with disabilities as full members of the human tribe , is open to all . |
| 17 | On this , his first solo offerings , the humble Professor demonstrates that he has by no means mellowed . |
| 18 | We have given it up , partly because we can not afford all the exercise tests and partly because we believe that once you know the patient has got ischaemic heart disease , which he has by definition if he has had an infarct , that the exercise test on a beta blocker is as useful prognostically . |
| 19 | ‘ Any party who seeks to charge an accounting party with an amount beyond that which he has by his account admitted to have received or who alleges that any item in his account is erroneous in respect of amount or in any other respect must give him notice thereof stating , so far as he is able , the amount sought to be charged with brief particulars thereof or , as the case may be , the grounds for alleging that the item is erroneous . |
| 20 | Perhaps the contributor to the " Glasgow Geography " in 1825 writing of the Scottish peasant was correct when he said , " By the time he has reached the age of ten years , he has by heart , as it is called , the whole Catechism , the metrical version of the Psalms , and is pretty well versed in the Bible … and by the time he arrives at the years of maturity , to the " big ha' Bible once his father 's pride , and the Westminster Confession of Faith , he has added Pool , Henry 's Commentary , Gillespie 's Aaron 's Rod Blossoming , the Faithful Contendings of the Church of Scotland , Boston 's Fourfold State , and if he can afford them the works of Jonathan Edwards . " |
| 21 | A further gloss on this quieter side of his character appears during Johnson 's own reflection in ( rather than upon ) Montrose — where he comments that he has by now had an opportunity to compare Scotland 's beggars with others he has seen . |
| 22 | has children which he has by his first wife , in my view and in the view of the great majority of people in this country |
| 23 | He stands by what he said , and , sadly , many of his criticisms are still valid : the team have still not bought a video camera despite a large injection of cash from the Sports Council and no one could say that the preparation training for the world championships — one weekend in the Kendal Judo Club — has been anything but derisory . |
| 24 | He stands by the decision of his predecessor , Mr Douglas Hurd , that there is no need for further investigation . |
| 25 | Ontario 's Attorney-General , Roy McMurtry , says he stands by the CDC report and Digoxin expert , Alois Hastreiter of the University of Illinois says post-mortem levels found in some of the patients were ‘ far too high to be explained by any naturally occurring substance ’ . |
| 26 | He stands by what he says . |
| 27 | When everyone has found their places he stands by the microphone at the top table , hammers on the table with a gavel , and announces loudly , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , Pray SILENCE for the Reverend John Smith , who will now say grace . ’ |
| 28 | Subject , however , to the help of the court in these various ways , the basic principle underlying the preparation and presentation of a party 's case in the High Court in England is that it is for that party to obtain and present the evidence which he needs by his own means , provided always that such means are lawful in the country in which they are used . |
| 29 | In the afternoon he starts by sleeping , then takes over the kitchen and insists on preparing extravagant five-course meals . |
| 30 | He starts by looking at DRG 's pension fund surplus , which he says is worth £25m . |