Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [pron] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 2 | He now proposed that the fundamental gut decision of whether the paper should be tabloid or broadsheet be tested by market research , until he was finally talked out of it by another newly recruited professional — Clive Thornton , lately of Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 3 | ‘ At this hour I imagine she 's fast asleep in bed — unless , like me , she 's been ripped out of it by some hooligan ! ’ |
| 4 | NCR Corp has finally abandoned the traditional mainframe business , driven out of it by another company that is hanging on in there by its fingernails . |
| 5 | The prince , who took his force into Wales from Chester in good tight order , and at every mile ensured his lines behind him , was on his guard against his own instinctive enthusiasm as well as against Welsh armies , and knew enough about them by this time to feel no surprise that he should probe ever more deeply and carefully into North Wales , and never touch hands with anything more than a darting patrol , gone almost as soon as sighted . |
| 6 | The argument put forward by the lowlanders , that they were being flooded out by water sent down to them by those living higher up the hill , was naturally resisted by the latter . |
| 7 | At the centre of this joyous court life stood the figure of Eleanor , " dominating all around her by that intellectual radiance , that love of literature and fine language which was her hall-mark " . |
| 8 | Or so I thought , until I read this week that Prince Charles , who was held up to my by that selfsame grandmother as a paragon , has apparently gone the way of the rest of our post-war generation . |