Example sentences of "she [vb past] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She strolled by some quite lovely nineteenth-century architecture — charming four-storeyed buildings of white , of yellow , of yellow and white , and red-roofed , green-roofed , immaculately lawned — and down to her hotel . |
| 2 | If she thought by this means she might bend me to her will , she was as mistaken as you are now . |
| 3 | As she said goodnight to them in turn she managed by some technique of charm or pure personality to convey to each of them that they were important to her in their own light . |
| 4 | He put the candle-holder down on it , then turned towards her , and before she could stop him he gave her a kiss so gentle that it hardly registered , and she stared at him , wide-eyed , put her hand to where he had saluted her , and said huskily , ‘ No , ’ although what she meant by that neither he nor she knew . |
| 5 | Franca , now gathered into Marcus 's attempt , was saying in her mind , Oh let it be all right , let it be all right , not sure what she meant by this , whether that Marcus should revive Patrick , or whether simply that Marcus should ‘ get away ’ without some positive disgrace , some catastrophe or shameful happening . |
| 6 | I did n't understand what she meant by this but she smiled and asked if I would like to go to the ‘ flicks ’ the following Saturday . |
| 7 | ‘ But on the whole I 'm an autodidact , ’ said Constance , fairly confident that Clarissa would n't have a clue what she meant by this . |
| 8 | Lucien had no idea what she meant by this . |
| 9 | I could n't work out what she meant by this . |
| 10 | He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first . |
| 11 | However , she had by that time passed her eightieth birthday . |
| 12 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |