Example sentences of "[noun pl] by [v-ing] them [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They laughed and joked all the time , and deliberately exhausted their guards by making them walk too fast . |
| 2 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 3 | He was accused in a pamphlet , written by the historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and circulated by Nigel Watts , a property developer , of deceiving the Yugoslavs by letting them believe they were going to Italy . |
| 4 | This means that , even if it were possible to deal with free-riders by making them breathe dirty air , it would be economically inefficient to do so . |
| 5 | The tactic is to draw speculators ' fangs by making them commit capital to buying put options . |
| 6 | Additional revenue could be obtained by the Exchequer from this source and it would deter demand for imported goods by making them appear expensive in our shops . |
| 7 | In this way , we 're starting to get away from the dangers associated with monopolistic suppliers and purchasers , because it 's less easy for large organisations to circumscribe their trading partners by making them use a particular EDI network . |
| 8 | THE central plank of the bill is the curb on the country 's biggest industrial polluters by making them use the best available technology to cut discharges . |
| 9 | They say they 're just trying to stretch brighter pupils by letting them use facilities not available at most primary schools . |
| 10 | Games which pressurise weak spellers by making them write words quickly are not good for them . |