Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] [pron] in [art] " 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 | Right : Protect your outdoor pool from the rigours of winter by enclosing it in a Norwegian log chalet . |
| 4 | For myself I do not care , but I do not want armed retainers terrifying my household by arresting me in the dead of night . ’ |
| 5 | The theory is that if the players can not be persuaded to give the public value for money , they must be forced into a slow trot by hitting them in the most vulnerable area — their back pockets . |
| 6 | It is not an easy thing to get rid of a body by dumping it in the sea , except from a boat , Of course it is less of a problem if you have access to a pier or a jetty , but most such places are public and liable to be overlooked , even at night . |
| 7 | Inevitably , since there are only twelve tissue salt preparations , an attempt was made with varying degrees of success to enlarge their scope by mixing them in an effort to cover other symptomatologies . |
| 8 | Clive also attended , visibly gleeful that he had spared the school any undesirable publicity by unloading me in the nick of time . |
| 9 | P'raps 'e knew 'e was in the wrong by provokin' me in the first place . |
| 10 | It was later announced that General Oufkir had committed suicide by shooting himself in the head — three times . |
| 11 | But whereas organisms can prevent a lethal build-up of iron by wrapping it in a protein called ferritin , no such defence exists against aluminium . |
| 12 | Future Perfect aims to help people approaching or over the age of 50 deal with the transition from their main career by pointing them in the direction of new opportunities . |
| 13 | For example , you can form a curve in a stalk by positioning it in the required shape and then securing it with tiny pieces of tape for the first couple of days of pressing . |
| 14 | Control mint by planting it in a large pot with drainage holes . |
| 15 | Example The topic " Islamic elements in Byron 's poetry " could be given greater interest and significance by placing it in a more general discussion of " foreignness " in British Romantic texts . |
| 16 | Use the examples as a model by learning them in every key . |
| 17 | A BRUTE punished his four-year-old step-daughter by spinning her in a tumble-drier , a court heard yesterday . |
| 18 | The African lungfish copes with the dry heat of summer by interring itself in the mud . |
| 19 | Notebooks in hand , they listened beside her hospital bed as she told of how her attacker stripped her , tied her hands behind her back , and turned her into a human rag doll by dumping her in a city rubbish skip . |
| 20 | I will become a functioning member by involving myself in a specific area of regular Christian service within my church . |
| 21 | Initially , schools were only to have one microcomputer , so there was an argument for making the microcomputer available to the whole school by placing it in the school library . |
| 22 | It was these northern gentry who became the model for those who sought to save the influence of the nobility by involving it in a movement for reform and economic progress . |
| 23 | The hot Cyprus autumn moved from one week to the next , and Zacco prepared for his forthcoming triumph by installing himself in the moated citadel built by his great-grandfather at Sigouri , ten miles west of the besieged Famagusta . |
| 24 | SHOCKED Colin Creasey saved a kitchen fitter 's severed thumb by keeping it in a pack of frozen peas . |
| 25 | Experts now solve the problem by placing them in a separate order which , they believe , branched off a very long time ago and did not lead to more advanced forms . |
| 26 | In deciding where we should go we have to transfer ‘ ownership ’ of the direction by involving everyone in the decision . |
| 27 | Giving reasons , therefore , raises our thoughts and actions from the here and now and from their singularity by placing them in the context of a wider perspective or tradition . |
| 28 | Dry each foot by wrapping it in a towel and squeezing all over . |
| 29 | As a result she is not allowed by her mother to supplement the family income by helping her in the fields , since to be seen doing it would mean she had become an illiterate villager again . |
| 30 | The big challenge that BT faces in the future though , is to turn ISDN into a mass-market technology by installing it in every home by default . |