Example sentences of "they have [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 2 | Central South saw what they 'd achieved by 1991 , and now we 've been back to check on progress . |
| 3 | When they said goodbye they 'd embraced by the front door , a taxi waiting on the road outside . |
| 4 | ‘ We could see what looked like a range of hills from our window but they 'd gone by the morning — nothing left but huge ripples as if a great tide had come up and washed them away . |
| 5 | What 's interesting also growing cos the election employee representation is something which trade unionists are beginning to face as a result of initiative they 'd taken by U K employers . |
| 6 | People can ‘ change their luck ’ , and can in a way say ‘ No ’ to divine Providence , though of course if they do they have to stand by the consequences of their decision . |
| 7 | They 've economised by reducing it for the handout . |
| 8 | Should think they 've moved by now . |
| 9 | and they 've started by trashing shops |
| 10 | Registers will roll until elections are announced and then when elections are announced it will be the closing date for that particular election and polling cards will immediately be issued with massive publicity around them so that people who do n't get polling cards , discover that they 're not on registers and will still have time because they 've qualified by the qualifying date to get themselves entered onto registers within a week of the election taking place . |
| 11 | My responsibilities vanished but I think they suspected that if I were sacked there would be a public fuss so they had to proceed by stealth . |
| 12 | They had chatted by his front gate before retiring . |
| 13 | No one had ever seen a bride or groom walk to their wedding ; even the very poor found a car for that day and in the old days they had gone by trap or sidecar . |
| 14 | They had shopped round Belfast and she had teased her with the idea that this Parr was very rich , they had gone by train to Dublin and she had claimed he was ‘ hand in glove ’ with government circles there . |
| 15 | In the 1370s the English , lacking good leadership and the necessary commitment of men and money to defend a long frontier ( available money might have been better spent on defence than on more popular campaigns through France ) , soon lost the ground which they had gained by treaty . |
| 16 | When I queried this difference at the check-out I was told they had to go by the ‘ scan ’ price . |
| 17 | Well they could n't let me in , they had to go by the door . |
| 18 | The 1935 Seventh Comintern Congress and its emphasis on united-front tactics ( stemming from the Soviet leadership 's need to build alliances to counter threats from Germany and Japan ) gave the Communist parties some chance to regain the ground they had lost by their isolationist , class-against-class policies of the early 1930s . |
| 19 | After several years during which agricultural surpluses had been substantially reduced , they had risen by the end of 1990 and stood at : cereals — 18,000,000 tonnes ; beef — 700,000 tonnes ; butter — 278,000 tonnes ; skimmed milk powder — 335,000 tonnes ; wine — 8,000,000 hectolitres ; and tobacco — 30,000 tonnes . |
| 20 | They had travelled by car . |
| 21 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |
| 22 | They had travelled by train to Peking , via Russia and Outer Mongolia ! |
| 23 | The men said they had survived by eating seabirds , fish and seaweed , in addition to a limited supply of stores , which included apples and kiwi fruit , mouldy rice , tinned soft drinks and a small amount of fresh water . |
| 24 | The papal curia acted much as the curia regis and the cardinals became primarily officers of state and administrators who could be used as ambassadors or legates — a position they had reached by the early years of the twelfth century . |
| 25 | In 1602 they were thrown down from the walls of Geneva which they had assaulted by surprise . |
| 26 | The French bank originally heard about the headhunters they had employed by word-of-mouth contact , and BICC had based their choice — perhaps more dangerously — on a review of headhunting firms ' own literature . |
| 27 | All except Lord Keith also held that the GLC was under a fiduciary duty to its ratepayers which they had breached by the scheme , Lord Diplock particularly emphasizing the loss of rate support grant , and that they had acted thriftlessly . |
| 28 | The defendants owed the deceased a duty of care which they had breached by failing to examine him . |
| 29 | Improve your mood and counteract stress : Ask anyone who exercises regularly and they will tell you that they always feel exhilarated at the end of a session — even if they had begun by feeling that they were not in the mood for exercise and had almost forced themselves to continue . |
| 30 | As a class they had disappeared by the time of the Domesday survey . |