Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |
| 2 | probably , a bar with nuts and raisins called raisin natural bar I 'm sorry about loo loosing the keys mum , mum tt the noise has gone the noise has come back by the way |
| 3 | He suggests that this has come about by the make-up of the international selectors , two of them coming from Belfast , two from Dublin and only one from the North-West and Munster . |
| 4 | He suggests that this has come about by the make-up of the international selectors , two of them coming from Belfast , two from Dublin and only one from the North-West and Munster . |
| 5 | A third source of opportunity has opened up by the increased willingness of many firms to contemplate non-traditional forms of investment ( NFI ) , also in their marginal territories . |
| 6 | Conditions are expected to settle down by the middle of next week . |
| 7 | To the east the Mediterranean Fleet had also come under air attack during 8th. from Rhodes-based Axis aircraft , and heavy air fighting had ensued with six of the attackers being claimed shot down by the defending Fulmars from the carrier ‘ Formidable ’ . |
| 8 | Small clients handled roughly from what sounded like a hectic dealing room got turned on by the apparent professionalism of it all , and often allowed themselves to be persuaded into buying almost worthless over the counter ( OTC ) shares . |
| 9 | He got phoned up by the other players ? |
| 10 | Masha merely felt put down by the hauteur she felt , even if not intended . ) |
| 11 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 12 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 13 | If only his head did not ache so badly that thought seemed driven out by the throbbing . |
| 14 | They would not cruelly ridicule the child but I think she would feel left out by the time the girls were ‘ settling in ’ , as she would not fit in ; girls have more subtle yet often more hurtful ways of rejecting one another and this would be felt by the outsider before long . |
| 15 | Absent fathers are being made to pay up by the new Child Support Agency to cut the government 's benefits bill . |
| 16 | I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying . |
| 17 | Waldron Buffaloes had played a marathon the night before , finally got squeezed out by the L.A. boys . |
| 18 | Next , her long red hair was pulled so hard she felt as if it was going to come out by the roots . |
| 19 | MacKinnon 's further suggestion that the social life of the orang-utan could resemble that of early arboreal ape ancestors and to antedate the more terrestrial adaptations of the chimpanzee and gorilla seem borne out by the most recent studies . |
| 20 | Got hosed out by the council this morning . |
| 21 | And first , there was a long interruption to normal service at Prime Minister 's Question Time when two Tory backbenchers threw themselves in front of the House and got mown down by the Opposition roaring with ridicule . |
| 22 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 23 | They got called up by the Cabinet Office . |
| 24 | She became bogged down by the very size of the country , the lengthy supply lines , her inability to have her army spread thickly on the ground , the increasingly effective guerilla warfare waged by the Chinese communists , as well as by debilitating rivalries within the Japanese army itself . |
| 25 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 26 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 27 | The caption said ‘ Even the best white water rafters in the world get caught out by the fierce rapids of the River Coruh . ’ |
| 28 | Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful … |
| 29 | From now on we shall not hang around our side of the Front , waiting for the foe and getting shot down by the French artillery . |
| 30 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |