Example sentences of "[pers pn] by the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christian went on to tell the gipsies of the award made to him by the enclosure commissioners , but he was interrupted abruptly by Boz , who said , ‘ There 's no water in Faws Grove . ’ |
| 2 | Half of the marriage service fee ( £19.50 ) goes to the clergyman but this will be deducted from the salary paid to him by the Church Commissioners . |
| 3 | He shifted under her , sliding her away so that she was still bound to him by the steel bands of his arms , but was now lying by his side . |
| 4 | Mr Williamson 's pointed to other factors which have been taken into account , the local requirements as a as a advised to him by the district councils , but he has n't mentioned the Secretary of State 's advice in R P G two that North Yorkshire should take account of the strategic guidance for West Yorkshire in that calculation . |
| 5 | He paused when he saw her by the iron railings that separated mown lawn from pasture . |
| 6 | In drawing up his list of inhabitants of Corfe Castle in 1794 , the compiler justified his efforts by claiming that it would not only help the overseers keep in touch with actual and potential needs , but would " enable the magistrates to form an opinion on the propriety of applications for parochial relief on the one hand , and of the refusal of it by the parish officers on the other " . |
| 7 | The kind of tasks carried out for them by the support workers is similarly hard to classify . |
| 8 | Because innkeepers are under specific duties imposed upon them by the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 and at common law , they in return have certain rights which they may exercise over and above those which proprietors who are not innkeepers may exercise . |
| 9 | Although , in principle , the communities of interest are allowed to raise in ‘ contributions ’ only the amounts agreed by the delegates from their member ‘ organizations or associated labour ’ , in practice , such organizations have little option but to agree with proposals presented to them by the community managers . |
| 10 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |
| 11 | The day before the Sale it was calculated that we had 640 of our ‘ regulation ’ boxes ( given to us by the china shops ) filled with about 26,000 books – all sorted and priced by then . |