Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [conj] [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opened his eyes , his consciousness hazed and slowed by the kif he had smoked , and focused with difficulty on the watch on the bedside table . |
| 2 | If you withdraw money using your card in a currency other than sterling , your account , will be debited in sterling and the conversion into sterling will be at a rate of exchange decided or authorised by the Bank . |
| 3 | ‘ The Yugoslav Army has never fired on the people , ’ Col Budimir Mladenovic said when confronted by an angry Muslim villager who held in his hands the remains of an Army issue mortar shell . |
| 4 | Thus ‘ abstract ’ is opposed to ‘ concrete ’ , ‘ explicit ’ to ‘ implicit ’ , ‘ elaborated code ’ to ‘ restricted code ’ , ‘ extensional structure ’ to ‘ in tensional structure ’ , and these types are taken to be related to differing kinds of social experience mediated or formed by a literate organization of reality , on the one hand , and an oral organization of reality , on the other . |
| 5 | Antoine Bloye is not simply the story of the life of a father recounted and explained by a communist narrator for the edification of a son . |
| 6 | A junk-shop , where a withered , pale woman sat and knitted by a paraffin stove among broken old things — pitchers , candlesticks , a few books , a sagging chair , a limping table , a chipped enamel bread-bin full of cracked saucers . |
| 7 | ‘ A 20th century Paladin ’ , cried US News World Report , a magazine that seldom let itself get too excited ; ‘ He stands alone as the sacrificed knight in the Iran-arms gambit , a true believer steeled and scarred by a lifetime of have-gun-will-travel missions . ’ |
| 8 | One must remember that Galileo was part of the Renaissance , the centuries-long ferment accelerated and intensified by the invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century . |
| 9 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
| 10 | Fuchs went to jail leaving behind him a world shocked and horrified by the prospect of atomic warfare . |
| 11 | There were those , again , in Germany as elsewhere , for whom the terms " Hellas " and " liberty " were axiomatically linked : a link symptomatized and strengthened by the warm interest taken by many German writers in the Greek struggle for independence , whose fruition followed in the wake of the French Revolution . |