Example sentences of "they [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth . |
| 2 | Indeed , so violent was their hatred for one another that , in a much-quoted scene , they actually came to blows when they met by chance on the railway platform at Mukden . |
| 3 | They met by accident , several hours later , in one of the bright , high-ceilinged corridors leading to the gardens . |
| 4 | Ian Barnes , Jessie 's cousin , had also gone to Social Services that day and they met by accident . |
| 5 | The kings were not simply put on their thrones by churchmen ; they were heirs and successors of barbarian chiefs ; they ruled by force and fear not by ideals ; the fact of politics not the ideals of churchmen were the stuff of their lives . |
| 6 | KILLERS : The Krays when they ruled by fear |
| 7 | there 's rugby at Stow on the wold on Sunday … teague … hastings … andrew … skinner lots of big names lining up in a charity celebrity match they land by helicopter at lunchtime … |
| 8 | Ethologists never have been able to make up their minds about what they mean by communication and signalling . |
| 9 | What they mean by nonsexist here is neutral or gender inclusive language . |
| 10 | The muddle that these two uses of the word cause is in part Marx 's and Engels 's fault because when they are talking about society based on communal property , that is , before false consciousness arises , they mean by ideology the total process of cognition including language , political ideas , social rules , etc. , but when they are talking of class society where false consciousness is present they seem to mean by ideology something much more restricted : moral , political , and religious ideas and values . |
| 11 | But of course what they mean by involvement varies from one teacher to another , erm and there are certain limits which most teachers feel that they should put on parental involvement . |
| 12 | In any case , such activity would be unlikely to distract the hounds because they hunt by scent . |
| 13 | Or , with a continuing conviction that others will never meet their needs , they may have to get what they want by stealth or theft ; they learn that only self can look after self . |
| 14 | Certainly anything they send by radio or by microwave circuit within their country can be intercepted . |
| 15 | Pursued there and besieged , they fled by night to raise a loyal army , but found it pitiful in numbers . |
| 16 | Knot and dunlin collect them , as well as worms and insect larvae , by probing and ploughing through the mud with their bills and detecting the morsels they seek by touch . |
| 17 | That the outlaws had not in fact appeared was due to the violence of the storm and to the message which that very evening they received by smoke signal . |
| 18 | From this source they spread by exchange networks as far as north Poland and the Ile-de-France over a radius as the crow flies of more than 1700 km . |
| 19 | They came by road , they came by water , and the arrival of the railway much later added to Rorschach 's significance . |
| 20 | The cattle landed at Holyhead , Birkenhead and Fishguard ; and they came by rail to Norwich . |
| 21 | They came by coach , car and on foot from all corners of the country , and from France with a team from Faverolles once again supporting the event . |
| 22 | They came by road , they came by water , and the arrival of the railway much later added to Rorschach 's significance . |
| 23 | After living in London for a while the couple spent a few days in Bournemouth and on St Swithun 's Day 1875 they came by steamer to Swanage . |
| 24 | They ate by candlelight , with highlights from Turandot playing , but received no visitors of any sort . |
| 25 | They ate by candlelight ( ‘ Electricity , my dear , is so cruel , ’ Lionel told Mrs Beeley ) , and from where she sat throughout the meal she could feel his gaze , steady , as if he took the image of her inwards . |
| 26 | They appealed by way of case stated , submitting that the patient was not ‘ unlawfully at large ’ and the police officers were not entitled to use reasonable force to enter the premises and were not acting in the execution of their duty . |
| 27 | WHEELCHAIR passengers do not have an easy time when they travel by rail . |
| 28 | When they visit their friends they travel by back alleys from house to house . |
| 29 | MANY PLACES OF INTEREST on and around the Three Peaks can only be reached on foot after many miles of walking over rough ground , but visitors to Leck Fell are favoured by a quiet moorland road that takes them to their objective precisely and , if they travel by car , without effort . |
| 30 | Children who travel to school by bus or coach are 20 times less likely to be injured in an accident than when they travel by car . |