Example sentences of "by it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formed by the past , a person is also deformed by it . ’ |
| 2 | A split appears to be spoken of in the conversation from which I have just quoted : formed by the past , he is also deformed by it . |
| 3 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 4 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 5 | ‘ Finally , if you have any problems , my door is always open , so do n't be put off by it . ’ |
| 6 | The move was really just a change for change 's sake — I was simply bored to tears by it all . |
| 7 | You are to come now. , He concentrated on positioning his shoulder so that it was in a cave formed by a fold of the stiff , harsh blanket , untouched by it . |
| 8 | Aware of the distances we had covered , aware too of the reason for our travels — this book and our interest in his deeper self — though far from eager , indeed , ‘ alarmed ’ by it , he nevertheless agreed to meet — a moment of dual appraisal . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , he was touched by it , as references to his people , his blood , military words , rank and weapons all show in his earlier poetry . |
| 10 | ‘ I could get anyone under the spell , ’ he says , adding that he had hypnotised their maid ( as Breavman had in The Favourite Game ) and feared that he had driven her insane by it ! |
| 11 | On which he makes two statements : first , that we are unmoved by it ; second , that it is a tragedy , especially to the eight-year-old son . |
| 12 | But he was honest enough to say that he was ‘ fascinated ’ by it too ; as he was by all forms of physical violence . |
| 13 | He feels something ; is inspired by it ; his mind takes off ; his periods flow — and afterwards he has difficulty in recalling their point of origination , even their exact meaning ( like Browning , see below ) . |
| 14 | Indeed , they could be offended by it . |
| 15 | The phrase ‘ the holism of the mental ’ is used in a number of ways ; but I hope the reader now understands what I intend by it . |
| 16 | According to Aristotle , perceiving an object is the result of being acted upon by it : objects of perception , acting via a medium of perception , causally affect the perceiver 's sensory apparatus . |
| 17 | In fact , I think that we all get affected by it through prolonged exposure . |
| 18 | They had been hurt by it and have had to seriously think about how to make themselves better . |
| 19 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , many pet owners are now requesting acupuncture — often because they have been treated successfully by it themselves . |
| 21 | It is my experience that many students of English Literature with good A-level results dislike poetry , or at least feel baffled by it , and can go through a three-year degree course without this attitude being radically changed . |
| 22 | Yet he never retracted this avowal ; nor — given what he meant by it — did he need to . |
| 23 | He accepts it happened and he is appalled by it , ’ he said . |
| 24 | When I read the Epoch literature I am always convinced by it . |
| 25 | It was Mr Carway who discovered that the holding in Laforza 's parent company , the Jersey-registered AIUK , was only under option to Eagle , not directly owned by it . |
| 26 | It must have been something out of the ordinary because even a player of his vast experience was affected by it . |
| 27 | Paragraph 5 referred simply to enforcement of a judgment or order against a person who , under the rule , was bound by it . |
| 28 | It is a policy that has signally failed to persuade either the financial markets or the rest of the European Community , mainly because neither Mrs Thatcher nor Mr Lawson shows any serious sign of being persuaded by it . |
| 29 | By it , a pleasant lily-covered loch . |
| 30 | He was so worried by it that he took it , and his own doubts about faith , to his father . |