Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nairobi , Cynthia Osterman , of Care , said that she had heard by satellite telephone that four US vehicles were burned but no-one was injured . |
| 2 | In Nairobi , Cynthia Osterman , of Care , said that she had heard by satellite telephone that four US vehicles were burned but no-one was injured . |
| 3 | There was no doorman at the hotel where Iris Sunderby had stayed , but the woman at reception confirmed that she had left by car shortly after eight on Sunday morning . |
| 4 | By spreading power across a wider spectrum it would also make it less likely that any one region , such as Scotland , would find itself being governed by a party that it had rejected by huge margins at the polls . |
| 5 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |
| 6 | Precisely when and in what circumstances Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands is not entirely clear , though both Ibn Hajar and Taskopruzade assert that he had returned by the time he went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 . |
| 7 | When the British civil servant Sir Robert Armstrong struggled in the Spycatcher trial to deny that he had lied by claiming that he had been ‘ economical with the truth ’ he met with well-earned derision . |
| 8 | There was a minor , uninfluential theme in his posthumous reputation that he had come by abnormally horny knees from long hours in prayer . |
| 9 | On 8 December he told his ministers that he had blundered by treating the election as a referendum and would not make the same mistake again . |