Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun sg] by [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was embarrassing to ask the punters at York Arts Centre to join in my comedy song by chanting the line ‘ fuck the system ’ , given that a fair few of them were over 60 . |
| 2 | Commercial Union began to cope with the temporary loss of its headquarters building by making the maximum use of available space elsewhere . |
| 3 | Agencies fighting for business , adding value to their clients business by improving the accountability of the media spend , the research into the creative solution , future planning of how markets will react to new products , economic changes , demographic shifts . |
| 4 | Dandavate began his budget speech by outlining the grave economic situation inherited by the new National Front government when it came to power in late 1989 , which included a " strained " balance-of-payments position , low foreign exchange reserves and low foodgrain stocks . |
| 5 | Mad Eric has personalised his scum top by wearing the collar standing up and ironing down the front corners to make it look like a cravat — he now looks like Victorian Dad out of Viz. Berk . |
| 6 | Professor Cox and his team compromise by stressing the value of knowledge and grammatical discipline , while recommending that these should be achieved through experience with words rather than through the study of grammatical terms in isolation . ’ |
| 7 | Parker , Oakland 's starting pitcher , had gone a full eight innings before George Bell finally broke his hit-left streak by depositing the ball over the left-field fence . |
| 8 | As a trivial example , one student may have scored five out of ten on his arithmetic test by answering the five additions correctly and the five subtractions incorrectly while his/her friend is given the same score for precisely the converse performance ! |
| 9 | When Howell picks him up at dawn on a deserted Texan highway he immediately makes his intentions plain by scaring the boy witless . |
| 10 | With VOR you will have to centre your L/R needle by rotating the OBS scale in order to know your QDM to the beacon . |
| 11 | Cut off two , inch long pieces of gummed tape and , moistening no more than one-quarter of an inch on each strip , stick them on the top edge of your cartridge paper by holding the brown paper hinges and give it a good shake . |
| 12 | Aerobic walking will help change your body composition by increasing the amount of muscle tissue compared with fat tissue . |
| 13 | Reverse your back position by pushing the spine downwards in a curve . |
| 14 | It will show how a knowledge of the rules can be used to help your tournament training by outlining the following : |
| 15 | It also accentuates the value of your rank bonus by reducing the overall number of casualties caused . |
| 16 | as we could , as I was talking to our group yesterday well , now that is the one game they set out to make a , your partner unconscious by shaking the brain inside the skull and that 's what exactly what they 're doing . |
| 17 | — mark this as your starting point by resetting the counter to 000 ; |