Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Movement came to her aid by sending her on a secretarial course and finding her a part-time job with a City accountant . |
| 2 | Which reminds me that some bright sparks got the five ducks which our Mess has acquired very drunk the other day by feeding them on a pap of bread and over-ripe grapes . |
| 3 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 4 | Ferguson may be stupidly obstructing his development by playing him on the right , where he does not cross the ball so well : - ) Kev . |
| 5 | He also hopes to exploit the Burke 's name by reproducing it on the labels of clarets , burgundies and champagnes . |
| 6 | This article explains how you can rapidly increase your finds rate by putting yourself on the saddle of an imaginary bicycle and travelling back in time to the turn-of-the-century . |
| 7 | Apparently , you almost scared the band off the idea of a musical career by lecturing them on the evils of the business side of the industry … |
| 8 | The workshops mentioned later in the chapter may provide a hub for the self-directed learning by basing them on the problem(s) . |
| 9 | The argument I have advanced aims to shake a widespread and intuitive adherence to individualism by putting it on a par with its holist rival . |
| 10 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 11 | He claimed he had taken the measurements of Eclipse during life , and wished to satisfy his curiosity by trying them on the dead subject . |