Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 2 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 3 | The bagman-fox , now on home ground , had delayed them by running up a long culvert . |
| 4 | that was taught me by my grandmother , Annie Scanlon . |
| 5 | It is equally clear that some directors have privately expressed fears that , given the crudeness with which the 1993–4 budget trends will have been constructed , severe cash shortages could affect them by September . |
| 6 | Mr Aznar has tried to combat them by promising ‘ rational change ’ , pledging to keep , for example , Spain 's restrictive abortion law . |
| 7 | His cord trousers are still rolled down round his ankles and get in the way and we have to stop and turn him over and pull the trousers back up , fastening them by one button . |
| 8 | After pushing our boats over into the water , we then righted them by putting all our weight on the centreboards where they poked out of the bottom of the boat . |
| 9 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 10 | He made them by scattering his droppings over the sky and this is why the grass and the trees grow so thick on the world . |
| 11 | That 's for the We actually calculated them by using the unit quantity |
| 12 | This would involve identifying those who could satisfy criteria or competence and reliability , and encouraging them by removing some of the administrative restrictions now applying . |
| 13 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
| 14 | Nicandra led them by all the ways she had known and disregarded since childhood . |
| 15 | Louis XIV and his admirals had , meanwhile , after the Battle of La Hogue , licensed numerous ‘ corsairs ’ to make a nuisance of themselves in the Channel and North Sea , some of whom , actually held naval rank and had guns — up to 50 or 60 in the larger ships — lent them by the French navy . |
| 16 | Another shows the converse , a humanoid god standing between two daemons : he is mastering them by grasping their tongues . |
| 17 | In practice , almost any useful algorithm incorporates aspects of both approaches , but for the moment , we shall explain them by emphasising their differences . |
| 18 | However , a great many books that , if one were tabulating them by content , would perhaps have to be called why-dun-its still have in them considerable elements of other sub-genres . |
| 19 | Hermite responded with a profuse apology for the oversight , and suggested that Smith could help the Academy out of an embarrassing position by rewriting his earlier papers in French , complete with full proofs , and submitting them by I June in accordance with the competition rules . |
| 20 | In the first place , I always threatened the orchestra that if they played too loudly I would simply lower them by ten centimetres ; and if they continued , then by the end of the first act they would be in the dungeon . |
| 21 | They remain hidden until it is threatened , when it displays them by turning itself upside-down . |
| 22 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 23 | Some foul glutinous thing got me by the legs and ankles . |
| 24 | He was pulling him , trying to get him off me — he threw him — he just threw him at the bed — I knew he was all right , he were screaming but I could n't — they were both screaming , Cathy and Gary both , and he got me by the throat . |
| 25 | By conceding on the timetable , O'Neill gifted the Republicans an important advantage , helping them by drastically curtailing the protracted and damaging interplay of pluralist forces that would have otherwise taken place over the budget . |
| 26 | Shrewd yet naïve , tough yet appearing to be tottering on the verge of senility , tirelessly interested in people , helping them by stealth , histrionic in the highest degree , quick to spot the comic and to mock the pompous , the processor of a gargantuan ego that was directed almost entirely to good ends , he was one of the most remarkable dons of his day . |
| 27 | He took a calculator from his wallet , added up the marks and divided them by 8 . |
| 28 | Engineers were dominated by craft unionism which divided them by organization and levels of skill even within the newly created Amalgamated Engineering Union . |
| 29 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 30 | They could still manage Abends , wenn wir schlafen gehen , taught them by the nuns as a party piece , and then , indeed , they sounded like angels , though angels without much grasp of the words after the second line . |