Example sentences of "[verb] by [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its efficacy could then be assessed by substituting it for the dictionary definitions in the overlap program . |
| 2 | She intended to plead her own nervousness and her desire not to be destined for public exhibition and planned to finish by thanking him for the compliment of his request and wishing him well in finding a more practised model . |
| 3 | If the craving returned , I could cope by contemplating it for an hour or two , until it went away . |
| 4 | They 've economised by reducing it for the handout . |
| 5 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |