Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children are not allowed to touch the fish with the paper and try to move it along by hitting it on the floor to create a draught . |
| 2 | Now that is a humiliating experience , so you get through by turning it into a joke . |
| 3 | At the same time , inspect and clean the gutters and rainwater gullies , emptying them of leaves and silt — finish off by flushing them with a bucket of warm water . |
| 4 | We 'd better start off by telling you about the two brothers who run the Minoa , Yanni and Nico who run the bar and enjoy a joke . |
| 5 | And he employs a zig-zag training sprint which involves a series of passes before the player finishes off by flinging himself at a rugby tackle bag ! |
| 6 | So when he followed up by pointing us towards the touchline , I got the shock of my life . |
| 7 | In this way , the original small nucleus of people grows by adding people to it in stages , much as a snowball can be built up by rolling it along the snow on the ground ( e.g. Plant 1975 ; Mars 1982 ) . |
| 8 | He sounded depressed by the thought , but then cheered himself up by asking me for a beer . |
| 9 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |
| 10 | We tested this out by taking it around the office and the people in the office thought it was a bit boring we er thought it was great for the youngsters who probably like it so er erm and the merchandise we 've actually , we 've made up certain things , T-shirts and , and , and wacky items that again er relate to , to young people so that they get into the , the , the theme of the thing and the , the whole year carries forward on a , on a certain colour theme and , and , and so on , so er we 've done our best as sailing coaches not only learning to be marketeers again the money , where 's the money come from ? |
| 11 | The present value of those future flows should then be worked out by discounting them with an interest rate equivalent to the firm 's cost of capital , the weighted average of its cost of borrowing and of equity . |
| 12 | This was borne out by observing him in the classroom , where he was sitting quietly working , in contrast with the much less controlled behaviour of other children in this small group . |
| 13 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 14 | Its owners move themselves about by protruding it from the shell and rippling its undersurface . |