Example sentences of "do [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I expressed my appreciation of the honour he had done me by inviting me to his coronation , he replied that as the eldest son of his trusted friend , to whom he owed so much , it was proper that I should be present . |
| 2 | In Euripides 's play Orestes ( 408 BC ) , Apollo says The gods by means of Helen 's loveliness embroiled Troy and Hellas , causing death thereby , that they might lighten Mother Earth of the outrage done her by man 's excessive population . |
| 3 | For the past 25 years leading businesses have done everything by the book . |
| 4 | You have done everything by the book and your water is spot on , but green water is truly a natural part of maturation and nothing to worry about in itself . |
| 5 | The present government has done something by designating 40 per cent of the territory as country parkland where plants and animals are supposed to be protected . |
| 6 | Oh , Jay , I 'd have thought she 'd have done it by now , if she was going to . |
| 7 | The Handmaid 's Tale is director Volker Schlondorff 's first American feature , and he 's done it by the book . |
| 8 | He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support . |
| 9 | Lorton had insisted that they both took part in the burglary , when he could easily have done it by himself |
| 10 | If it was going to harm our sales it would have done it by now . |
| 11 | a contracting business , and he 's done it by the skin of his teeth . |
| 12 | You know what whatever the situation is we we done it by then , but er we we do they they are guaranteeing to supply us with an office and telephone facility for up to three weeks . |
| 13 | I do n't think it 's , I do n't think it 's an essential office motion , otherwise Cornwall would have done it by now . |
| 14 | He 'd done it by making her question herself , she realised . |
| 15 | Some people have already done it by the looks of things , only they have n't changed it . |
| 16 | Martin mentioned that he , he 'd done it by post and you , you ex explored as to why . |
| 17 | This stupid Lee at the moment for his exam , he 's meant to have done it by Christmas and he has n't done it for C D T , and he , they had to just choose something erm to make that actually sort of works , so Lee could n't , I mean they did crane 's and things like that and he could n't , the thing he came up with and he 's teacher was a , a go erm , what was it Dave , a goalie stand in his goal |
| 18 | we would of done it by ourself sorted out . |
| 19 | At the moment we have done it by chance when jobs have come up , there is n't one here for Jeff . |
| 20 | They 've done it by an alteration in the way local government finance works , so that the cost of providing new council housing and the cost of maintaining existing council housing has to be met entirely from the rent paid by existing council tenants , and erm a certain amount of Government subsidy . |
| 21 | by then , we 'll have done it by then , but |
| 22 | Adjusting VR2 gives a symmetrical waveform and you can do it by ear by reducing the frequency so that only harmonics can be heard . |
| 23 | You can do it by scrubbing the Navy . |
| 24 | ‘ I shall do it by the dollop like I always do . ’ |
| 25 | I see I could do it by degrees ; it only blistered my hand in two places . |
| 26 | You can do it by more intensive refining of crude oil . |
| 27 | So then it 's just a matter of waiting to get a good take , and if you do n't do it by take three , you do n't have any business doing it . |
| 28 | He was told he could n't do it by his forceful parents . ’ |
| 29 | Its good reception encouraged Boyle to set pen to paper , publishing his results in June 1663 , at which time he observed , ‘ Nor is it only by dissection of various animals that the naturalist may promote the anatomist 's knowledge , but perhaps he may do it by devising ways to make the dead bodies of man and other animals keep longer than naturally they would do . ’ |
| 30 | Ten years after the Gunpowder Plot he still cried from the pulpit , ‘ Would they do it by fire ? |