Example sentences of "[pers pn] by [verb] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wrongly claimed I misled him by concealing knowledge of the Matrix Churchill case when I explained the Government 's policy . |
| 2 | Sgt Steve Lock added : ‘ We fed him by poking food under the door with a broomstick — a very long broomstick . ’ |
| 3 | In the far north-east and Karnchatka a common marriage practice was the residence of the husband in the family of his bride for a certain period of time , in order to pay for her by performing work for the family . |
| 4 | He reflected gloomily on the price of his ambition , because he had gone out on a limb to persuade a mistrustful and increasingly hostile Kenamun to consent to the operation he had mounted , and then he had only achieved it by linking Surere to the serial killings . |
| 5 | They made it respectable to talk about it by linking grants with the proper adoption of equal opportunity policies . |
| 6 | Having offended officers by omitting Jacques Soustelle , the most well-known Gaullist advocate of French Algeria , from his first government , de Gaulle appeased them by bringing Soustelle into the government in July . |
| 7 | ‘ These people have turned up at competitions and disrupted them by throwing things into the water . |