Example sentences of "[vb infin] by the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was I gave my mum a lift because I , and d' ya know by the time he gets better |
| 2 | However , we can see by the diagram it is not just a straight shot from the eyeball into the security judgement . |
| 3 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 4 | He drew in his breath with elation , but he could see by the way she bit her lip that she had n't intended to let the confession slip . |
| 5 | I also thinking about what we 're going to do is we would end up sounding like a Foster and Allen song anyway you know not deliberately but I think you know by the time we 'd have have by the time we do the way we 'd be able to do it it would sound like Foster and Allen . |
| 6 | Besides , works can gain by the company they keep in a museum collection , a landscape being in a group of works of similar date and intentions , or a portrait seen among contemporaries . |
| 7 | well but the important thing is she 's engaged to be married I would reckon by the time she 's about twenty-six she 'll be looking for time out to have a family but by that time hopefully she 's and when she 's thirty-two or thirty-three can come back into the business and say I 've got a and the door opens that much more easily |
| 8 | What did Selkirk mean by the phrase he could ‘ count the days ’ ? |
| 9 | However , questions about the meaning of sentences , such as ’ Who did he mean by the woman he saw last night ? ’ can usually only be answered with reference to facts about the world , i.e. , the specific denotation . |
| 10 | I am not very sure what 's wrong with her but I can tell by the way they start discussing the weather when I come into the room that it must be Women 's Trouble . |
| 11 | I can tell by the way she looks at them . |
| 12 | Kate had liked it : you could tell by the way she fingered the material , by the way she looked at herself in the mirror with her chin lifted just a little higher than usual . |
| 13 | She is upset by the anger in my voice , I can tell by the way she rattles my cup . |
| 14 | You can tell by the way she falls upon these offerings . |
| 15 | Saturday Night Fever ‘ You can tell by the way I use my walk , I 'm a woman 's man . ’ |
| 16 | You could n't tell by the way he performed . |
| 17 | She could tell by the way he ground out his cigarette on the floor . |
| 18 | and you can tell by the speed they 're travelling what sp speed the wind is . |
| 19 | He might be seen returning , and it was needful he should come by the way he would have taken to Longner . |
| 20 | I could hardly breathe by the time I got there ; my chest felt as if it was bursting and my throat was clenched tight and my legs were quivering again . |
| 21 | Yes you 'd probably gauge by the price I would think . |
| 22 | Those inmates classed as illiterate were obliged to take a compulsory form of basic education , with the aim that they would at least be able to read and write by the time they were released . |
| 23 | Half nine it finishes so we 're supposed to be back by tennish I should think by the time we 're finished . |
| 24 | Mm it 'll be about five to half past when he leaves I should think by the time he 's cleared up . |
| 25 | The wreaths sold well , fetching prices over three pounds each , a figure that will double by the time they reach the shops . |