How to use "by" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "by" in popular movie and book plots

  • mr Bascombe, owner of the mill, happens by along with a policeman, and offers to escort Julie to her home, but she refuses and is fired.  - Carousel (musical)
  • Laura, saddened by the loss of a potential friend, longs for a companion.  - Carmilla
  • The Bene Gesserit still find themselves questioning the Golden Path of humanity set by the God Emperor Leto II.  - Chapterhouse: Dune
  • Lying dormant in the future, Robo is found and repaired by Lucca, and joins the group out of gratitude.  - Chrono Trigger
  • Long ago, Mu Bai's master was murdered by Jade Fox (Cheng Pei-pei), a woman who sought to learn Wudang skills.  - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • On a surveillance mission to the seedy East End, a disguised Bruce is propositioned by teenaged prostitute Holly Robinson.  - Batman: Year One
  • Woodrue and Isley argue over the use of the drug and Woodrue kills her by overturning a shelf of various toxins.  - Batman & Robin (film)
  • His crib floats to an abandoned zoo and is found by a flock of penguins who raise him as one of their own.  - Batman Returns
  • The city is located on a seacoast and is surrounded by a vast desert wasteland.  - The Big O
  • While at school one day, she is approached by a man who calls himself Merrick (Donald Sutherland).  - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)
  • In Los Angeles in November 2019, ex-police officer Rick Deckard is detained by officer Gaff and brought to his former supervisor, Bryant.  - Blade Runner
  • Black militiamen under a white leader ransack the Cameron house; the Cameron women are rescued by Confederate soldiers who rout the militia.  - The Birth of a Nation
  • Cora appears carried in a litter by her backup singers, and admits that she can accept anything except unpopularity (“Me and My Town”).  - Anyone Can Whistle
  • The expedition's facility, High Lab, is gradually compromised by a dormant superintelligence within the archive later known as the Blight.  - A Fire Upon the Deep
  • In the town of Oran, thousands of rats, initially unnoticed by the populace, begin to die in the streets.  - The Plague
  • Jones and his men are making an attempt to recapture the farm, aided by several other farmers who are terrified of similar animal revolts.  - Animal Farm

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