Although =por= here precedes an infinitive, it should not be confused with =por= in cases like estoy impaciente por entrar.
Don Estaban was dead; and of him she spoke with deep and affectionate feeling; betraying besides that her own lot was rendered almost a friendless one by the bereavement.
Affecting to have changed my original intention of investing a great capital in the mines of Mexico, and resolved instead to return to Europe, I consulted Don Estaban as to the safest hands in which to deposit my money.
Then probably you know Don Estaban Olares," said I.
Don Estaban himself appeared to sympathize sincerely with my sorrow, and evinced the warmest sense of gratitude for the past.
This sentence reads as follows in the original: 'A los lados serbian de alfombras unas pieles de tigres y leones, y mantas hechas de plumas de aguila real, en donde asimismo estaban por su orden cantidad de braceletes, y grevas de oro.
Don Felix d'Estaban replied that he had seen him that day two hours before sunset.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estaban" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
