Example sentences of "[pron] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also very important from the adults ' point of view that erm it does n't matter if you are a so called single parent , which , I by the way , am , or whether you are within erm a couple but actually in in fact you 're , you 're a single parent because you 're getting no support . |
| 2 | And the thing is , by the time I by the time I chased her I was so I do n't know , do n't even know where the photo is now . |
| 3 | Never judge someone by the way they look . |
| 4 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 5 | Dryden 's sister Elsie Donnelly said yesterday : ‘ The family was given the option of taking it down ourselves by the council . ’ |
| 6 | We soon reached an Inn at a place called Hardraw , and descending from our vehicles , after warming ourselves by the cottage fire we walked up the brook side to take a view of a third waterfall … |
| 7 | We found ourselves by the gloomy canal that runs through the north of the park . |
| 8 | ‘ We certainly surprised a lot of people and I think we may even have surprised ourselves by the progress we had made in a relatively short time . ’ |
| 9 | We also reveal much about ourselves by the way we dress and by our hair styles . |
| 10 | We judge ourselves by the time from call-out to getting the problem fixed which is an average of 63 minutes , ’ he said . |
| 11 | How are yours by the way ? |
| 12 | Watkinson was helped with his by the Kuwait crisis of 1961 . |
| 13 | The common duty of care does not impose on an occupier any obligation to a visitor in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by the visitor … |
| 14 | " The common duty of care does not impose upon an occupier any obligation willingly accepted as his by the visitor . " |
| 15 | The most recent recipient was the Sultan of Brunei who was presented with his by the Chancellor Lord Jenkins . |
| 16 | The story that is told is a story which never ends — and which risks losing shape and momentum — because it is a story told of himself by a living author , an author who has yet to end , whose isolate 's imaginative fury lives on to tell another tale , some more of his own story . |
| 17 | In many cases , as where the persons entitled are not of age , or not yet in existence , or not to be found , an executor or administrator will have to retain the property in his hands for a considerable time , though he may sometimes relieve himself by a payment or transfer into court , and in any case he can obtain the direction of the courts when doubts arise as to the proper course which he should take . |
| 18 | I got the impression that he was extremely alarmed about his own position and was determined to eliminate any risk for himself by a massive change of Government . |
| 19 | David was warming himself by a fire in the centre of the hut ; he was almost nude and had never worn anything other than a coarse blanket which was slightly tied round him to cover his back . |
| 20 | Otto 's brother-in-law King Athelstan appears to have called himself by a variety of high sounding titles , emperor ( if any of the documents are genuine ) and basileus , the Greek word for king and part of the official title of the Byzantine emperor ( though it is not clear whether the English realized this ) . |
| 21 | Pain in shooting down a Do215 ; Rippon also shot down a Ju87 , while Sgt. McDougal was seen to get another of these , but was then shot down himself by a Bf109 . |
| 22 | Soon he is befriended by the kindly German ‘ Doc ’ ( Armin Mueller-Stahl ) who is interned in the local prison And we see him taught to box and fend fro himself by a likeable petty thief ( Morgan Freeman ) . |
| 23 | Bald planned to follow it with other county surveys of similar quality , but this ambition was frustrated when the Ordnance Survey was directed to produced its own map of Ireland in 1824 , and henceforth he devoted his energies to civil engineering , a profession for which he further equipped himself by a period of renewed study and foreign travel . |
| 24 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 25 | ‘ Among those unable to be with us today , ’ continued the colonel , ‘ is a young man who followed Lieutenant Harvey into the enemy trenches and then killed four , perhaps five German soldiers before later stalking and shooting another , finally killing a German officer before being tragically killed himself by a stray bullet when only yards from the safety of his own trenches . ’ |
| 26 | By the afternoon of the 7th , to the accompaniment of barrages enveloping the whole sector that seemed to reach a crescendo of fury , the Germans captured the whole of the Bois des Corbeaux ; including the wounded Colonel of the 211th , saved no doubt from savage disgrace himself by a spirited last-ditch defence . |
| 27 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 28 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |
| 29 | Developer conferences these days seem to harbour a deep-seated resentment of Microsoft and , unfortunately , Allchin is not the most charismatic senior executive that Microsoft could have fielded — frankly he killed himself by an overlong demo ( and let us not forget that Gates himself is probably the only competitor to Jobs ’ title of demo king ) that crashed a couple of times . |
| 30 | Recording a verdict that he killed himself by an overdose Liverpool coroner Roy Barter said : ‘ He had been complaining of anxiety and obviously felt vulnerable before Christmas . ’ |