Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he replies : ( " Lady , I am not here by a trick ! |
| 2 | ‘ At twenty miles a day we should reach Tam by February thirteenth , and if you 're not there by then , Geoff , we 'll be there without you . ’ |
| 3 | And because Pooh has learned this correlation , just as he 's learned that bees correlate with honey , Eeyore can tell Pooh that thistles are off simply by sighing , without using any language at all . |
| 4 | But I feel that the policy practised in the Scottish Courts of accepting a doctrine of diminished or impaired responsibility should be encouraged in order that murders which are clearly partly by accident , impulse or temporary madness or passion should be treated differently from those crimes which constitute a deliberate war against society . |
| 5 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 6 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 7 | He 'll be all right by then . |
| 8 | ‘ It might be all right by the jetty , ’ she argued , running down the path . |
| 9 | ‘ If I do n't see another girl until I 'm twenty , that 'll be all right by me , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll be all right by the time we come to Luxembourg next week , ’ she said confidently to Franz and Willi at supper that night . |
| 11 | In Protestant countries the morality of sexual restraint and fidelity was supposed to be binding on both sexes , but the very fact that it was felt to be so even by those who broke it , led them not so much into hypocrisy as into personal torment . |
| 12 | ‘ Believe it or not , I 'm not here by choice . ’ |
| 13 | Be practical and efficient and everything that I 'm not really by nature . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't ask me , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I 'm just 'ere by accident . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm usually away by the second try . |
| 16 | The terrace faced south and got the full sun , so it was too hot to be out there by day , but in the evenings and at night it was wonderful . |
| 17 | We will be back here by nightfall . |
| 18 | The deadly chemicals which first drove the animals away have now been banned and it 's hoped they could be back here by the end of the century . |
| 19 | And then I want you to meet , I want you to be back here by quarter to four . |
| 20 | Samantha might be back home by the early hours of Monday morning . |
| 21 | Young patients can arrive for surgery in the morning … and be back home by mid-afternoon . |
| 22 | He 'll be back there by now . |
| 23 | To be here today by definition means to have survived , whether as dung beetle , mushroom , or human . |
| 24 | This latter line is also statistically significant ; the points on the line are most unlikely to be there purely by chance . |
| 25 | and I mean it used to be the fact , oh god well we 've got to sort of have dinner at twelve o'clock , we 've got to be round there by four . |
| 26 | It is all too easy for someone in a position of influence to think they are there simply by virtue of their own ability . |
| 27 | If we were not away by sunset , there would not be another appropriate departure date for more than a month . |
| 28 | They insisted their four colleges have a spirit which was ‘ practical rather than academical ’ although it was agreed that the 254 places provided in the colleges were not enough by the end of the century . |
| 29 | Although the local fishing waters were not directly by the oil spills , the director of the Bahrain fisheries institute , Jassem Ahmed al-Qaseer , said that the possibility that the deaths were in some way linked to pollution was high . |
| 30 | You must however consider that , except for 3 day London only departures , arrival at your hotel will be around 11.30pm ( Continental time being usually ahead by 1 hour ) when the hotel restaurant may be closed . |