Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , belatedly , they tried to take them by force , an exercise in which they failed despite the loss of tens of thousands of irreplaceable soldiers . |
| 2 | Men tried to burn the distaffs while the women tried to stop them by throwing buckets of water . |
| 3 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 4 | He managed to rout them by tearing his clothes off and setting them to sail down a river , then blocking the river with a mighty boulder . |
| 5 | Reynolds sought to unite them by avoiding unnecessary controversy . |
| 6 | The bagman-fox , now on home ground , had delayed them by running up a long culvert . |
| 7 | The winter had caught them by surprise . |
| 8 | King John , they said , had granted them by charter the right to pasture their animals and to take housebote and firebote in Lonsdale Forest without payment , but they had lost the charter during the disturbances at the end of his reign . |
| 9 | We were using the UK schedule when we said to expect them by the end of this month . |
| 10 | Airport police confirmed Demeke had gone through security checks , dismissing reports that he had avoided them by transferring from an Oslo flight . |
| 11 | The Sheikh had crossed them by camel as a boy ; then as a young man with a wife and small children , including the boy at my side , he had camped overnight on one side of the range waiting for the engines of his jeeps to cool before grinding inch by inch , around and over . |
| 12 | Noverre distinguished his dancers by their particular physiques and personalities , whereas Weaver had judged them by their ability to act . |
| 13 | Although a number of embassies in Kuwait had defied the Iraqi orders that they should close by Aug.24 [ see p. 37639 ] , all but a dozen ( including the USA , Canada and eight EC countries ) had abandoned them by Aug. 12 because of conditions there . |
| 14 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 15 | The wind was still as vicious but the thunder had passed them by and the voice of the seas changed , waves breaking over the catamaran with less force . |
| 16 | Headed by the USSR President and comprising as before the Presidents of the union republics , but with the addition of the USSR Vice-President and the Presidents of the 20 autonomous republics * ; upgraded from a consultative to an executive body , responsible for co-ordinating the work of the central and republican governments , ensuring observance of the Union Treaty , and resolving inter-ethnic and inter-republican disputes ; Council resolutions needed a two-thirds majority , and were binding on the President ( who had to enact them by decree ) and on all republics . |
| 17 | We had to placate them by appearing in what they thought was acceptable guise . |
| 18 | It was Poland who had initiated them by repeated acts of racial and territorial aggression . |
| 19 | Joseph 's special robe ( 3 ) : Joseph 's brothers saw this as a sign that Isaac intended to pass them by and make Joseph his heir ( see 48:21–22 and 49:22ff . ) . |