Example sentences of "[pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stenton ( Oxford , 3rd edition 1971 ) has , on pp.731–4 , a ‘ Key to Anglo-Saxon Place Names ’ ; Historical Interpretation : I by J.J. Bagley ( Penguin Books 1965 ) has , on pp.265–73 , a ‘ Glossary of Archaic and Technical Words ’ , and this is useful for compound terms . |
| 2 | It 's also very important from the adults ' point of view that erm it does n't matter if you are a so called single parent , which , I by the way , am , or whether you are within erm a couple but actually in in fact you 're , you 're a single parent because you 're getting no support . |
| 3 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 4 | Can I can I just raise a question er to r to clarify the point before I answer your question that I are am I are we to assume that in response to Mr , erm it 's on the record that there 's a er a request to add , clear expression of local preference I by local planning authorities ? |
| 5 | I by then . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , you might not have , my dear , ’ he added unfuriatingly , and apparently impervious to the effect he was having , ‘ though I by no means concede that point . |
| 7 | It 's all round here so the less I by here , all the and all muscles had all gone and they 're all pressing on a , on a nerve and that 's what 's causing the problem and she said that that was what . |
| 8 | And the thing is , by the time I by the time I chased her I was so I do n't know , do n't even know where the photo is now . |
| 9 | Yer 've no right judging 'er by Patrick . |
| 10 | ‘ Er weddin' dress 'ad been run up for 'er by Mrs Stuart that 'ad only just give up 'er job workin' for a dressmaker in Shoreditch . |
| 11 | On balance it is easier to reach someone by telephoning them than by trying to see them . |
| 12 | ‘ If I could n't see the funny side of life , I think I would have murdered someone by now ! ’ says Mel . |
| 13 | Never judge someone by the way they look . |
| 14 | We never hurt someone by being honest and genuine . |
| 15 | Dentan , for example , describes the Semai concept of persusah — to make difficulty or unhappiness for someone by meddling in his affairs — and notes that the prescribed response to such interference is withdrawal or passivity ( 1968 : 63 ) . |
| 16 | That is , when we inform someone by means of language we retrieve a message from our model of reality and by means of the encoding and decoding of language transfer it to the addressee , who then fits it into his own model of reality . |
| 17 | The Secte Rouge should have found us someone by then . ’ |
| 18 | The body does become less efficient as we grow older , and it 's a comfort to have someone by our side who recognises this . |
| 19 | The procurator-fiscal insisted on pressing the more serious charge of killing someone by dangerous driving , while being drunk . |
| 20 | Or so I thought , until I read this week that Prince Charles , who was held up to my by that selfsame grandmother as a paragon , has apparently gone the way of the rest of our post-war generation . |
| 21 | I still re-read and enjoy Beyond a Boundary , finding something new , often appreciating a passage that had passed my by earlier . |
| 22 | What I did n't know was that this species , again in marked contrast to the Mbuna norm , is a precocious spawner , and one morning I discovered my by now 1.5″ female brooding . |
| 23 | They let the people in you know ooh my by time we set off I er it were like Christmas . |
| 24 | Some of you er may take it amiss if I were to describe you as veterans but my by contrast , this is my first annual public meeting and not just as chairman . |
| 25 | Mother mother b mother brought me back by the the by my by my hair . |
| 26 | For example , if we have raised our body temperature by exercise or effort then cooling ourselves by taking a cold shower , a swim , or a cold drink makes us more comfortable . |
| 27 | In our culture , which sets such a high premium on self-enrichment ( in every sense ) , the robust , emotive and expressive aspects of soul act as a sort of therapy , helping us to ‘ liberate ’ ourselves by getting back in touch with ourselves , opening up , unblocking , becoming more functional and therefore ( it runs ) more ‘ free ’ . |
| 28 | Mrs Browning was still pale and shaky as we settled ourselves by the fire ( and what the moon saw , or what it might have seen if its beams could have penetrated the closely-drawn curtains supplemented by plastic sheeting to foil the poison gas , might have seemed a little unusual ; but who can tell what strange sights are enclosed within the cheerful light of a curtained window ? ) . |
| 29 | Dryden 's sister Elsie Donnelly said yesterday : ‘ The family was given the option of taking it down ourselves by the council . ’ |
| 30 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |