Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 2 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 3 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
| 4 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 5 | So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers . |
| 6 | ( This explains the small amount of attention given them by contemporary theorists of enlightenment in contrast to the adulation lavished on the Prussian and Russian rulers . ) |
| 7 | Then if you feel it is appropriate , address them to their homes and send them by registered mail . |
| 8 | After cleaning out gutters ( or fitting new gutters ) , test them by pouring water into them ( or use a hosepipe ) |
| 9 | I caught him by cute observation ; |
| 10 | We sold the residual sixteen years , approx , to a client represented by Harvey Gough & partners , who soon afterwards resold it by private treaty to a small company whose name I have not yet discovered , with the rumoured intention that it would be turned into a private nursing home . |
| 11 | Remove them by frequent scrubbing and careful drying . |
| 12 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 13 | The guidelines require that new homes , shops and workplaces be planned and sited in ways that encourage people to reach them by public transport , bicycle or on foot . |
| 14 | Those who have experienced deliverance by the hand of God , and who live under his sovereignty , must show it by distinctive behaviour . |
| 15 | She pushed the thought away , terrified of damaging it by careless anticipation . |
| 16 | The kind of non-randomness that can be generated by simple sieving is roughly equivalent to opening a combination lock with one one dial : it is easy to open it by sheer luck . |
| 17 | I shall send it by registered post . ’ |
| 18 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 19 | Above all the parties have failed in the task of presenting clear alternatives to the questions of the day and thus of deciding them by public debate … |
| 20 | We will continue to help them by simplifying rules and regulations on business and through the DTI Enterprise Initiative and a range of other schemes . |
| 21 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 22 | The courts have not helped him by sensible pronouncements . |
| 23 | The reason for this advice is that quite possibly the question was set as a trap , and if you refrain have avoided it by good luck rather than good management . |
| 24 | Now it seems to me that er Yeltsin 's that kind of Russian patriot and he 's shown it by concluding treaties as equal partners with Ukraine , with the Baltic Republics and so on er in which he said that er Russia is no longer going to interfere in their internal affairs , so they they are equal partners in these treaties . |
| 25 | His apprehension arose not out of a fear that she would ruin him by extravagant expenditure but from a neurotic anxiety that if she knew how much money he had put away , she might feel free to leave him . |
| 26 | But they are being forced to do it by fragrant Virginia , who 's actually trying to reduce the ability of dentists to perform in the National Health Service as they want to do , and as they always have done . |
| 27 | Erm I 've mentioned accessibility , I would raise that again , I 'm a non-driver erm it 's easy to hop in a car and get from here to Chelmsford , if you want to do it by public transport it is a nightmare erm the meeting here on , on Monday which was very poorly attended , and I understand that 's been the pattern right across the area , and I do n't think the health authority is that interested in finding out what people have thought to be honest ! |
| 28 | We can only stop it by international agreement and enforcement . |
| 29 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 30 | 12.1 Any notice , document or request falling to be given or served under this Agreement may be given or served by sending it by registered post or certified mail , postage pre-paid , or by tested telex or facsimile transmission to : in the case of |