Example sentences of "by [verb] a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prisoners who built it left their own rather macabre memento by incorporating a hangman 's noose into one of the rafters , with a nearby door leading into empty space and a four metre drop . |
| 2 | His father died when he was three years old , leaving his mother to support and bring up seven children , providing for her family by opening a greengrocer 's shop and later a modest boarding house . |
| 3 | I and in Glasgow and we attempted to break some of the barriers you 're talking about by holding a girl 's week and part of the girl 's was to run a five-a-side tournament and we were also breaking down territorial barriers , we had girls from different housing schemes within the east end of Glasgow , but I feel the opportunities do n't exist ! |
| 4 | We can understand this by considering a person 's reflection in a mirror which is experienced as a re-figuring and deepening of the reflected image : the depth of the reflection , for example , shows that the reflection is not the mirror itself , although , clearly , without the mirror there is no reflection . |
| 5 | A vessel equipped with Flettner rotors gains in manoeuvrability as lift is diminished by slowing a cylinder 's speed of rotation . |
| 6 | Here , students who have already graduated , can become qualified teachers by taking a year 's course which leads to the award of PGCE . |
| 7 | BORIS BECKER spoke here yesterday of how he tried to find the perfect antidote to New York by taking a week 's holiday in East Germany after winning the United States Open last month . |
| 8 | Grandparents could not count on natural loyalty : rather ; they had to positively create their roles by winning a child 's affection . |
| 9 | The young man 's brother wrote to Lord Panmure to see if David could make the best of the situation in which he found himself by obtaining a midshipman 's place . |
| 10 | Their eldest son Henry rekindled the family 's desire for travel and adventure by marrying a solicitor 's daughter , Mary , and travelled out to Guyana in South America as a barrister . |
| 11 | Children learn in many ways ; by watching and copying , by asking questions and by following a parent 's example . |