Example sentences of "by [verb] their [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |