Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please spare my copies in future by sending them in a pale pink envelope with flowers on . |
| 2 | It is fun to create a pretty effect by sowing them in a narrow band , weaving between the brassicas like ribbon . |
| 3 | Remove stubborn caramelised turkey grease from the roasting tray by filling it with a solution of biological washing powder . |
| 4 | Brin Weare fooled the enemy by disguising himself as a priest . |
| 5 | Brin Weare fooled the enemy by disguising himself as a priest . |
| 6 | The Movement came to her aid by sending her on a secretarial course and finding her a part-time job with a City accountant . |
| 7 | Valerie cut short further interior monologue by gracing him with a smile and saying , ‘ I just brought Lesley-Jane some home-made soup for the interval . |
| 8 | Right : Protect your outdoor pool from the rigours of winter by enclosing it in a Norwegian log chalet . |
| 9 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |
| 10 | In both cases these are intellectuals talking about their own work by linking it with a process continually taking place at a popular level and in everyday life . |
| 11 | There , the missing gene will be added to the marrow by infecting it with a genetically altered virus . |
| 12 | In several respects , though , the fate of Black Fury had confirmed basic Warner Bros notions and they continued to pick up ideas for movies from the daily papers , they went on believing that social melodrama could be profitable , and they had been given further evidence that Muni could win acclaim by projecting himself as a hard-done-by but eventually triumphant saint . |
| 13 | Teachers can help to develop the ideas of any child by providing them with a new range of experiences . |
| 14 | The plant can be anchored to the bottom by tying it to a piece of wood , roots or rock . |
| 15 | Never make a hole in the ice by hitting it with a blunt instrument as this will kill or concuss the fish . |
| 16 | The body responds to an alumina implant by surrounding it with a fibrous capsule which can be several micrometres thick . |
| 17 | Discs has also sponsored a women 's football team by supplying them with a kit partly drawn from Billy Bragg 's Red Star Belgrade promotional shirts . |
| 18 | He degrades the nobility of the place by turning it into a weekend retreat ; the human beings firmly under his sway — the Damsels , and the Artist — do not question his purpose , and he announces that his achievement will last for ever : |
| 19 | To take but one other example from an experimental approach common in the late 1960s and early 1970s , suppose one trains a mouse by putting it onto a small shelf in the wall of a cage with a grid flour which can be electrified . |
| 20 | That June , Duran clamped Leonard 's artistry by drawing him into a slugging match in Montreal and inflicting on the American what was to be his only defeat in 37 contests . |
| 21 | There he examined the insect 's every move by prodding it with a twig . |
| 22 | Positive form can be introduced into any polygon or polyhedron by regarding it as a closed skin subjected to internal expansion . |
| 23 | He it was who first , among moderns at all events , conceived this method of organizing the infinite complexity of appearance by referring it to a geometrical scaffolding . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Romano-British potters , especially those at Colchester and in the Nene Valley , produced their figures by the barbotine method of applying thick slip to the surface of the vessel by squeezing it from a funnel , very similar to the modern technique of decorating and icing a cake . |
| 26 | A HOSPITAL technician killed his heavily pregnant wife by hanging her from a garage roof beam , it was alleged in court yesterday . |
| 27 | Create a dramatic impact with green flooring by complementing it with a red or pink rug |
| 28 | To achieve more precise control over the response and quantify it , the researchers immobilized the slug by pinning it to a stage and standardizing the tactile stimulus by using a jet of water delivered with a water-pick . |
| 29 | In the past , freemasons have labelled and slandered the Christian God by reducing him to a miniature deity . |
| 30 | Aston 's Newport Pagnell works is like a room at the Science Museum : on a given day in any given corner , two men will be shaping a bonnet-lid by rocking it through a hand-press ; in another , a third-generation Astonian will be hand-beating an aluminium ( Astons have always been aluminium ) wing . |