Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] by the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never judge someone by the way they look . |
| 2 | Erm , I can never remember the name of it and I , I , and I forget it by the time I get home , but , the name of the castle that is . |
| 3 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 4 | EVERYWHERE YOU GO , PEOPLE JUDGE YOU BY THE WAY YOU LOOK |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Do n't worry if you ca n't do it if you ca n't any of these any of these exercises that I give you by the way it 's not like homework it 's just for you to play with them to get the do them at your own pace . |
| 7 | Yeah but you see the thing is that if I come and meet you by the time you no point . |
| 8 | You 'll believe it by the time you leave here — ’ |
| 9 | Well I think if that was me I 'd have that done now in case you do n't like it by the time you you get married and that could be growing again . |
| 10 | At times he felt tender and protective towards her , but sometimes he surprised himself by the hatred he felt for her , because she was healthy and free and had no need of him . |
| 11 | I 'll suspect get it by the time they go |
| 12 | she 's doing everything by the book I think , so |
| 13 | And her suppliant 's face , round and even in this twilight , thickly flushed in the hectic way that he had seen before , repulsed him and made him take her by the arm she had raised and move it like a detached limb back to her side . |
| 14 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 15 | They hugged each other , and then taking me by the hand we went into the street and made our way home . |
| 16 | I 'll be with you in a few minutes , ’ and he whipped up his coat from among a stack of luggage and instruments lying in the hall , and taking her by the arm he hurried her through the kitchen . |
| 17 | In fact — and this is going to blow your socks off if you 've never thought about it before — God works out how much we love him by the way we treat other people ( including teachers ) . |
| 18 | So in this particular example we 've got a single channel conductance of six picoamps , six times ten to the minus twelve amps , divided by forty millivolts , four times ten to the minus three volts , and just dividing one by the other we get a value of a hundred and fifty times ten to the minus twelve siemens which is the us unit of er conductance , note it has an I in it . |
| 19 | Er had they by the time you were still at school come on to that new erm er system where you speak a lot more ? |
| 20 | Gabriel irritated him by the way she could get something nearly right but not quite . |
| 21 | Other people 's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones ; she would see suddenly — with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism — the extent to which other people 's preoccupations differed from her own . |
| 22 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 23 | I should 've learnt everything by the time I was thirty , not wait until I was in me forties . |
| 24 | She 'd overcome it by the time she was eighteen but it still surfaced when she got excited about something . ’ |