Example sentences of "[verb] it by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd buy it by the bulk yeah . |
| 2 | At Plowden was a road bridge built of transverse timbers with gaps in between ; it was here , on one of our journeys , that we sighted a cow with all four legs fallen through the gaps and its horns waving over the line ; Cadwallader ( the guard ) had had to pull it by the horns with main force while the station master sat on its head and Whitaker slowly drew the coaches past . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got an even better one — told me by a cowman years ago — when charged by a bull , stand your ground and when it gets close enough , grab it by the nose . |
| 4 | Erm , I can never remember the name of it and I , I , and I forget it by the time I get home , but , the name of the castle that is . |
| 5 | They 've knocked it , flattened it down and rebuilt it by the looks of it . |
| 6 | Thus you can describe it by the three numbers ( x1 , x2 , x3 ) |
| 7 | An ‘ only ’ dream has little effect on us ; we may remember it in the morning because it was funny or for some other reason , but it does not disturb us in any way ; most often , we recollect it only in the moments after waking and have forgotten it by the time we get out of bed . |
| 8 | But when his father 's will revealed that his marriage to Venetia might mean his losing £10,000 a year ( approximately £400,000 today ) he defeated it by the simple but ruthless stratagem of getting Venetia converted to the faith which he had himself rejected in everything except name . |
| 9 | A principal sea-side town had become a large and squalid town by the sea ; not only did fashion begin to desert it by the later 1820s , but medical opinion could no longer treat it with the blind enthusiasm of earlier decades . |
| 10 | Multiple use of easier-to-get conventional credit cards could have the effect of removing the present credit limit long-stop defence against overspending , without replacing it by the specially stringent customer vetting process which unlimited credit surely needs . |
| 11 | Using enormous restraint , she stalked her prey [ or nearly half an hour , and only when she was certain did she leap from her crouching position and bring down her quarry , seizing it by the throat and suffocating it . |
| 12 | The Handmaid 's Tale is director Volker Schlondorff 's first American feature , and he 's done it by the book . |
| 13 | a contracting business , and he 's done it by the skin of his teeth . |
| 14 | Some people have already done it by the looks of things , only they have n't changed it . |
| 15 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 16 | I put it by the sideboard |
| 17 | Just put it by the back door . |
| 18 | Observing that " governments of the world stand in danger of sabotaging the hope of a new era of human rights " , it asserted that " some are sabotaging it by the violations they commit directly , others by the selectivity with which they exert their influence " . |
| 19 | and then somebody comes and grabs it by the legs and pulls it . |
| 20 | ‘ I shall do it by the dollop like I always do . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We are looking at voluntary redundancy , early retirement , job swaps , but if we ca n't do it by the end of the year we will have to look at compulsory redundancy . ’ |
| 22 | Finding the money for the cycleways could be an uphill struggle , but the forest authorities are confident they 'll do it by the end of the century . |
| 23 | If it 's a works van tipping rubbish , they 'll charge them more , but you 'll have to pay , I do n't know whether they 'll do it by the load or by the bin bag or , what , you 'll have to pay to dump your rubbish . |
| 24 | As soon as you can see that the embryo is unharmed , do n't touch it ( keep it virgin clean or you may infect it ) , but hold it by the handle and ease the shield shape into the T-shaped cut . |
| 25 | Protagon is the new racket out of tennis mad Germany which feels like that old friend as soon as you come into contact with it , as soon as you shake it by the hand . |
| 26 | Others liked to sell it by the ton ; measure it out after it had been trussed . |
| 27 | Anyone else wanting to cash in on the end of the Cold War is advised to get a move on — there 's already been considerable interest in the Wroughton air yard and the agents expect to sell it by the autumn . |
| 28 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 29 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 30 | You 'll believe it by the time you leave here — ’ |