Example sentences of "by [verb] it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You use this both to anchor the sledge during a trip , by stamping it into the snow , and at the start of each day to hold the sledge , by clunking it on to a tree trunk . |
| 2 | The rig is partly used to steer the board through the turn by angling it across the board into wind . |
| 3 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 4 | While LIFESPAN RDBI is running the error log file may be accessed by typing it to the screen . |
| 5 | The effect of a specific sequence on gene expression was therefore assessed by cloning it into the Bam HI site at -105 in this promoter . |
| 6 | Durability , comfort , less fatigue and increased ball control are some of the reasons why it has become a Grand Slam surface , and why En Tout Cas decided to endorse its stated policy of choice and availability of surfaces , by bringing it to the UK . |
| 7 | When you tilt the main bed , to add a ribber , you must also tilt your knitting ( by bringing it over the ribber ) to maintain the correct angle . |
| 8 | Other stunts included the breaking up of Labour party meetings and vandalizing a Daily Herald van by driving it into the railings of a London church . |
| 9 | In the face of a history which obscures such discontinuities , the first stage for Foucault , therefore , is to defamiliarize it by reconstituting it without the mythology of a continuous History which has turned difference into identity . |
| 10 | LEFT At times it may be possible to conserve or reconstruct a site , by incorporating it in the development plans . |
| 11 | The gene was transferred by splicing it into the DNA of a bacterium which naturally infects plant cells . |
| 12 | You may sometimes wish to shorten the end of the previous shot by over-recording it with the beginning of the next one . |
| 13 | In 1985–6 , the government transferred a quarter of the overall funding for work-related FE courses in further education colleges from local authorities ' budgets ( by deducting it from the rate support grant , the predecessor of the revenue support grant ; see Chapter 8 ) to the MSC . |
| 14 | They have no gills , but obtain their oxygen by absorbing it through the skin of their body and greatly enlarged tails . |
| 15 | And if you 're leaving the boat at moorings , do n't forget to either take the engine home with you , LOCKED in the boot of your car , or secure it by chaining it to the mast or inside the cabin . |
| 16 | Its owners move themselves about by protruding it from the shell and rippling its undersurface . |
| 17 | Anticipate the hose-pipe bans and make the most of a sunny border , says Nigel Colborn , by filling it with the kind of plants that thrive on heat and dust |
| 18 | But her jaw had locked , as if she had been bitten by an animal that kills its prey by robbing it of the ability to eat or hunt , pant or lick , or even howl . |
| 19 | T HOSE with a vested interest in rubbishing the Prince of Wales 's new Institute of Architecture by tarring it with the brush of eccentricity will have a field-day when they learn that the founder of the international chain of Hard Rock Cafes , Isaac Tigrett , is to sponsor a Russian student to attend the Institute for five years beginning this autumn . |
| 20 | They treated little embarrassments such as their role in the gradual destruction of the ozone layer in the same way that the Vatican dealt with internal corruption : by brushing it under the carpet and pretending it never existed . |
| 21 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |
| 22 | Carbon dioxide could be rendered harmless as a greenhouse gas by pumping it into the sea , according to consultant physicist Raymond Harrowell . |
| 23 | By releasing it into the world , he relieved himself and taunted the fates to punish him . |
| 24 | In my right hand was a small tray , and by tilting it in the breeze I found that I could obtain enough lift to get up to any height I wanted , and was soon soaring into the air , travelling at will . |
| 25 | On maturity , the holder receives the par value of the bill by presenting it to the Bank of England . |
| 26 | ‘ Property ’ is proved in most cases by describing it in the statement of the person to whom it belongs or in the police officer 's statement . |
| 27 | But , as in most places , shortages were eased by ingenious home-made car parts and machinery , by pooling transport where possible and , for instance , easing the salt shortage by extracting it from the sea . |
| 28 | In its better forms , such as the Avro 504 and the various Moths , the wooden biplane was almost everlasting and the structure could really only be broken by flying it into the ground . |
| 29 | If the patient can not lift the leg across , the therapist helps by supporting it under the foot and thigh , and taking it up gently . |
| 30 | There is no way the farmer can deal with the output of hundreds of animals simply by spreading it on the fields . |