Example sentences of "[noun prp] by [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pompey take some beating … they proved that on saturday by coming back with an equaliser within two minutes a first for their new striker Lee Chapman … |
| 2 | Pompey take some beating … they proved that on saturday by coming back with an equaliser within two minutes a first for their new striker Lee Chapman … |
| 3 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 4 | Raquel upstaged Rebecca by arriving late in a skimpy mini-skirt . |
| 5 | Explore the life and world of Robin Hood by travelling back in time and sampling the sights and sounds of medieval Nottingham . |
| 6 | Fujitsu and Hitachi have made no effort to leapfrog IBM by introducing entirely new machines , for this would defeat the plug-compatible strategy : to let IBM create the demand and then meet it at lower prices . |
| 7 | Little , still in touch at Leicester , provided some cash for Gray by shelling out £15,000 for Gary Coatsworth , and taking Mick Trotter , who had hardly played in two seasons , on a free transfer . |
| 8 | The campaign of resistance had then succeeded , but few Unionists were celebrating ; Lord Winterton in Sussex and Willoughby de Broke in Warwickshire were among the Unionists who were preparing to spread an Irish civil war to England by setting up " commandos " of diehards among the yeomanry — but it was not clear whom they would fight if the army refused to support the government . |
| 9 | That Joan uses less Creole than Carol should not obscure the fact that in the course of the conversation , Joan accommodates to Carol by using increasingly more Creole features . |
| 10 | She was not alone , of course , in making the unwarranted assumption that an unruly Scots noble was in some way a fundamentally different and far more dangerous animal than an unruly French , or English , one ; generations of historians , up to modern times , have seriously distorted the history of Scotland by taking exactly that view . |
| 11 | In 1156 Arnulf persuaded Henry to delay indefinitely his plans to invade Ireland by pointing out to him , quite correctly , that the papal permission obtained by John of Salisbury [ q.v. ] acknowledged the pope 's overlordship of all islands — a matter of no small consequence to the ruler of an island kingdom . |
| 12 | Gen. Oufkir was a former Defence Minister who reportedly committed suicide shortly after leading an attempt in August 1972 to assassinate King Hassan by shooting down the royal jet [ see pp. 25485-86 ] . |
| 13 | The 21-year-old Malmo defender , who carried a £750,000 price tag , first annoyed Wilkinson by calling out to photographers : ‘ If Leeds pay peanuts they can expect monkeys . ’ |
| 14 | KATHLEEN MACK , a 74-year-old stud owner , has forced a development company to amend its plans for a new overspill village for Cambridge by turning down a £6m offer and chasing the company 's surveyors off her land with a shotgun , writes Christian Wolmar . |
| 15 | Astrac Trio , Norton 's other Florida purchase last August , obliged at Southwell recently and Celestial Key impressed Kevin Darley by wearing down favourite Blow Dry inside the final furlong . |
| 16 | It could only mean one thing : they suspected that the sleek Strasbourgeois citizenry might be planning to outdo Warsaw , Budapest , Berlin and Prague by marching up the Avenue de la Paix to overthrow 12 governments at once . |
| 17 | His attempt to buy into ITV by taking over their share of Thames TV from BET and Thorn EMI was vetoed in 1985 by the IBA , which wanted a broader rather than narrower range of owners . |
| 18 | Attaingnant lost no time in following the examples of Petrucci and Antico by bringing out in 1529 a Tres breue et familiere introduction pour entendre et apprendre … a iouer toutes chansons reduictes en la tablature du Lutz , containing among other things seven of Claudin 's songs from the Chansons nouvelles … a quatre parties of the previous year , now arranged both for lute solo and for voice with lute accompaniment . |
| 19 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 20 | The accused , who included some army officers , had faced charges in connection with what the authorities claimed had been a plot to assassinate President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali by shooting down his plane , as part of an armed uprising to replace the present government with an Islamic one . |
| 21 | I tried to banish the idea of a drowned Shelley by conjuring up the memory of Mary stepping into Lake Geneva and looking back at me over her shoulder ; instead came a more ferocious image — that of a gigantic man leaping towards me : not the best picture to help one through these present circumstances . |
| 22 | Hussey could not better help Birt and the BBC by standing back . |
| 23 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |
| 24 | Andy Roxburgh , the Scotland coach , broke the mould in the wake of Wednesday 's reverse in Paris by admitting both he and his players had to accept the blame for a defeat which jeopardises Scotland 's chances of playing in a fifth successive World Cup finals . |
| 25 | After skiing the last section of the Vallee Blanche Nigel decided we could avoid a walk into Chamonix by skiing down a snow chute filled with avalanche debris . |
| 26 | GLORIOUS FOR SOME High achievement Northamptonshire 's all-rounder Richard Williams will launch his benefit year on Sunday by jumping out of an aeroplane over Bedfordshire . |
| 27 | Tony Heginbottom incorporated the tradition , however , when he revived Spaw Sunday by going early to the well and surrounding it with boughs of may and holly and bunches of wild flowers . |
| 28 | He saw the Labour Party 's position as a difficult one , and began his conversation with Stamfordham by saying rather patronisingly that in MacDonald 's position , he , Asquith , would decline office ‘ on the grounds that he and his Party were not yet fit to undertake the responsibility ’ . |
| 29 | Two medical doctors , Julio Bientz Saab , 42 , and Julián Arana Rosainz , 35 , were imprisoned for 12 and eight years respectively on July 9 for plotting to kill Castro by blowing up the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery in the capital , Havana , where they both worked , on his visit in September 1990 . |
| 30 | On 16 March 1933 they brought in armed Polish police to protect their Harbour Board officers , and saying they feared the Nazis were planning an armed raid on the Polish ammunition dump , they reinforced their garrison on Westerplatte by bringing in 120 soldiers aboard the destroyer Wilia . |