Example sentences of "[adj] by [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Matt Busby would have dealt with this by buying me a bottle of champagne . |
| 2 | He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible . |
| 3 | Sam solved this by getting himself a loading job . |
| 4 | And since I am raising this question of the universalizing and the depersonalizing of egoism as it becomes poetic dedication in poetry , I 'd like to do this by offering you a contrast , and I choose as my contrast Alexander Pope , another poet who was obsessively concerned with his own role as a poet — in his satires in this case . |
| 5 | They have done this by asking what the British really want from a holiday . |
| 6 | Richard , however , had already made overtures of friendship to the Sicilian king and cemented this by giving him a rich and generous gift — Excalibur , the magical sword of King Arthur . |
| 7 | They can execrate someone whom they decide is a useless clown and they do this by making him a Lord , giving him the chairmanship of a quango and telling the chaps at the Athenaeum to hand him non-executive directorships in 15 companies and a merchant bank . |
| 8 | Some teachers guard against this by making it a principle never to award an A. According to a French adage quoted by Remi Clignet ( 1974 , p. 349 ) , the maximum of 20 is ‘ given only to God , 19 to his saints , 18 to the professor 's professor , 17 to the professor himself ’ — so the student of French composition ca n't be expected to score more than 16 ! |
| 9 | Suppose that he has to produce , not the complete works of Shakespeare but just the short sentence " Methinks it is like a weasel " , and we shall make it relatively easy by giving him a typewriter with a restricted keyboard , one with just the 26 ( capital ) letters , and a space bar . |
| 10 | Make gardening more comfortable by making yourself a garden kneeler . |
| 11 | D' you blame your father for making you soft by giving you an allowance ? |
| 12 | Like the emerging national plan , the Florida measure seeks to make health-insurance benefits available to the working poor by giving them the same clout in the marketplace as employees of big companies . |
| 13 | A View of the Present State of Ireland enforces its perspective of the savage nature of the Irish by giving them a curious ethnogeny . |
| 14 | You can make a ceiling seem much higher by painting it a lighter colour than the walls and keeping the floor a light tone as well . |
| 15 | And you can only do that by giving them a sense of direction . ’ |
| 16 | Unless you want to make the excursion unnecessary by telling me the truth ? ’ |
| 17 | I would like to thank the Arkleton Trust for making this study possible by awarding me a Fellowship and the Nature Conservancy Council for agreeing to three months study leave . |
| 18 | Hugh 's last scruples about seeing him cut out of the will were satisfied by writing him a personal letter of appeal . |