Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It starts by stamping its feet on the ground and arching its back . |
| 2 | The pair of them added a fair number of crashes to the record that year and when both Hunt and Horsley crashed at Brands Hatch ( Hunt made it a double by crashing his Mini on the way home ! ) |
| 3 | Amid signs of increasing desperation , Bush appeared to adopt a two-pronged strategy , using his powers as President to take actions calculated to improve his popularity , while his campaign staff increased the negative content of the campaign by intensifying their attacks on the character of Clinton , particularly in regard to his attempts as a student to avoid being drafted to Vietnam . |
| 4 | Both arms plunged down into the water , but she was able to steady herself by pressing her hands on the stony bed . |
| 5 | One keen young steward on the Cannon Street-Hastings trains drummed up afternoon beer trade by operating his trolley on the platforms at Cannon Street . |
| 6 | I would like to expand on the same topic by expressing my thoughts on the structures that exist , or fail to exist , in this country to help promising junior players become accomplished professionals . |
| 7 | But Mr Arafat 's critics accuse him of acting like a dictator by forcing his wishes on the Palestinian movement . |
| 8 | The tragedy of the industry was that they had won the battle only by turning their back on the price mechanism : a procedure for resource allocation which , arguably , is the best medium for the decentralisation of decision making to firms in the modern economy . |
| 9 | Rush vividly recalls the day when Dalglish shook football by turning his back on the club he loved . |
| 10 | In his contribution to the present volume , the distinguished Soviet historian , Leonid Goryushkin , has added fresh insights to the body of literature on nineteenth and early twentieth-century peasant migration patterns by demonstrating how these reflected the fluctuating social , economic and political policies of the late tsarist regime and by analysing their impact on the agrarian economy and village industries of Siberia in the decades before the first World War . |
| 11 | A shareholder is no part of the causal chain leading to the accidents ; he added no capital to the corporation 's resources just by buying its stock on the exchange . |
| 12 | By stating her views on the way out she could not be accused of empire building on her own behalf . |
| 13 | This situation may best be illustrated , so far as Anselm is concerned , by examining his interventions on the subject of monastic vows . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) by focusing my eroticism on the object of my unnatural fear : my body and the bodies of other men . |
| 15 | He began a forlorn final game by losing his grip on the racket altogether . |
| 16 | A good way of checking your trim ( the angle of the board in the water ) is to look behind you and see how small and quiet a wake you can produce by varying your position on the board . |
| 17 | Own branders The liability applies under s2(2) ( b ) to : ( b ) any person who , by putting his name on the product or using a trade mark or other distinguishing mark in relation to the product , has held himself out to be the producer of the product . |
| 18 | The charter S 950 is a grant to him from 1018 , and so is S 952 , which alleges that Cnut gave Christ Church freedom , and may be connected with the report ( S 985 ) that he confirmed their liberties by placing their charters on the altar . |
| 19 | The aim of LCA is to draw up an environmental balance sheet for a product or process by identifying its effects on the environment , from the winning of raw materials through to final disposal . |
| 20 | Was it normal , she had enquired , for elderly gentlemen making termly investigations into your scholastic progress to indicate where you were to sit for interview by laying their hand on the sofa cushion , and then , when you sat down , failing to remove their hand ? |
| 21 | Count Geoffrey , by concentrating his forces on the conquest of Normandy , was able to recover the continental part of his wife 's inheritance by 1144 , and in 1150 he passed it on to his eldest son Henry Plantagenet , now twenty years old . |
| 22 | Help her by arranging her clothes on the bed in the order she should put them on , and facing the right way . |
| 23 | Counsel for the prosecution invited the jury to decide between the suggestion that the officer had ‘ gone to the very depth of deceit ’ by imposing his attention on the woman or whether she had made ‘ a wicked and false allegation ’ . |
| 24 | Imperial would benefit by reducing its dependence on the declining tobacco market and UB would gain access to Imperial 's reserve of cash , necessary for further expansion . |