Example sentences of "and [verb] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wandered the savannah during the day , looking for food , and sometimes met and socialised by the lake with other groups of hominids . |
| 2 | This was why he was feared and tabooed as the totem , but this was also why he was periodically sacrificed and consumed by the clan brothers in rituals which re-enacted the primal trauma and the occasion of his first emergence as a psychological force of self-restraint . |
| 3 | The situation has improved in many ways , but it is not easy to overcome the problems created by natural obstacles and compounded by the legacy of centuries of neglect . |
| 4 | Speech recognition , on the other hand , as featured in science fiction and typified by the HAL computer in 2001 — A Space Odyssey is unlikely to appear for many years yet , if ever . |
| 5 | He engages with a sense of Being eternally present , not driven and limited by the demands of time . |
| 6 | is being choked and polluted by the motor car , coming specially from large housing estates built on the wrong side of |
| 7 | As with so many of Stockman 's ambitions , this one did not come close to full realization ; nevertheless , in the early months of Reagan 's first term , the legislature was repeatedly upstaged and out-manoeuvred by the White House . |
| 8 | The events of 1297 marked a new era in crown and church and in clergy-laity relations , one in which the endowments and incomes of the clergy were increasingly raided by the king and coveted by the laity to meet , above all , the soaring costs of warfare and diplomacy . |
| 9 | ’ … if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . ’ |
| 10 | 9 – ( 1 ) Where there is an agreement to sell goods on the terms that the price is to be fixed by the valuation of a third party , and he can not or does not make the valuation , the agreement is avoided ; but if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . |
| 11 | Once we see that the relationship between a set of explanatory principles and the more specific analyses offered by social scientists must be a reciprocal one we are able to benefit from the fact that , just as social scientific practice is moulded by existing views of explanation , so those views can be refined and altered by the impact of practice . |
| 12 | Many microorganisms enter the body via the respiratory tract and those who have colds , for example , should minimise the spray from their sneezing and coughing by the use of a paper tissue which can be disposed of safely after one use . |
| 13 | These will be collected and catalogued by the Institute , which will pass on to Merck any promising varieties . |
| 14 | In Incredible Era , a book on the corruption of the Harding years in the Twenties , historian Samuel Adams wrote , ‘ A president is measured , weighed and catalogued by the character of his chosen intimates . ’ |
| 15 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 16 | She felt depressed and frightened by the time the shop closed and she was able to go home . |
| 17 | These sections will be broken down and explained by the lecturer , and further understood in your reading . |
| 18 | Any other convenient location may be selected by the Arbitrators and arranged by the HCIMA secretariat . |
| 19 | The results-seen and heard by the majority of Teesside on TV , radio and the newspapers — proved the journalists had been genuinely impressed by the work of the laboratory . |
| 20 | I gave a short address with one foot on each side of the peace-line [ a sleeping policeman — concrete ] basing my theme on the marvellous passage in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke — the song of the angels , seen and heard by the shepherds , ‘ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill to all people ’ . |
| 21 | Their work is supervised by the Manager and checked by the Contracts Manager on his routine visits . |
| 22 | The payment request or invoices from the nominated sub-contractor will be received and checked by the builder and passed to the client 's quantity surveyor at the time of the interim valuation . |
| 23 | This valuation will be undertaken by the storekeeper , assessed and verified by management and checked by the auditor . |
| 24 | It then had to be tested by training officers and checked by the IPG . |
| 25 | By dusk , though , each day of dignity , Clary would return to his base and sit by the cathedral , with his inseparable friend for comfort — the ‘ funny stuff ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Come and sit by the window with me , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Go and sit by the window . |
| 28 | A little fat nun had once cried in the heat of Egypt 's afternoon , in the accents of County Cork , that she wished she could take off her flesh and sit by the well in her bones . |
| 29 | Come and sit by the fire . |
| 30 | ‘ Come and sit by the fire and get warm , ’ he instructed , interrupting her thoughts . |