Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] by [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have free access to the family outside their house , but when they are inside you can investigate them only by looking through the windows of their house . |
| 2 | Once , my partner and I were not allowed to play on a vacant court , just because my friend had a brown sweatshirt on , and there was a veterans doubles match on the next court — we might put them off by playing on the vacant court ! |
| 3 | You can fool them once by realigning in the middle of the trading day , as Spain did recently . |
| 4 | However , once the gun has gone they are not allowed to shut you out by sailing above the course to the first mark . |
| 5 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 6 | But the dynamic left-back has since proved him wrong by moving into the England reckoning with his performances for Kevin Keegan 's side . |
| 7 | I 'm not going to bail him out by jumping into the car . |
| 8 | ( Sometimes you can write the word on a blackboard , and ask the child to rub it out by tracing over the letters with his finger . ) |
| 9 | It follows that if we know the exact pitch of the siren , it is theoretically possible to work out how fast we are moving towards or away from it simply by listening to the apparent pitch and comparing it with the known " true " pitch . |