Example sentences of "[pers pn] by [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , he had told lies and they had trapped him by asking for the names of other English agents in Paris . |
| 2 | One , she felt , was taking advantage of Bernard and her by knowing about the business — he had requested some shares in the company , which she considered an outrageous request ; another had called her by her Christian name which was equally unacceptable . |
| 3 | When he played tennis with his sister , he would infuriate her by wandering off the court to contemplate . |
| 4 | I tried to take his mind off her by talking about the Norwegian leather industry but he could n't get interested somehow . |
| 5 | They could all meet there and he would n't embarrass her by coming into the bank while she did her little bit of business . |
| 6 | Her attendants pay homage before entertaining her by dancing round the small maypole set up for the purpose . |
| 7 | Money supply will rise if ( a ) banks choose to hold a lower liquidity ratio and thus create more credit for an existing amount of liquidity ; ( b ) there is a total currency flow surplus ; ( c ) the government runs a PSBR and finances it by borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad ; ( d ) the government switches its method of financing the national debt to borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad . |
| 8 | Rather than selecting the particular class of political events as the stuff of history , and then seeking to explain it by appealing to the play of national and personal interest , the Annales school advocates eclectic research into such diverse topics as economics , populations , social institutions , technologies and climate , designed to contribute to a complete picture of social life . |
| 9 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 10 | But we see here how Jesus , apart from anything else , deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people . |
| 11 | We might do it amongst our family , we can do it er by you know helping within the family , you can do it by helping in the community , all sorts of different ways . |
| 12 | If X sells it by dealing with the documents of title , then delivery occurs when he transfers the bill of lading to the buyer , irrespective of whether the carrier attorns , section 29(4) . |
| 13 | They do anything to avoid choosing , and if events force them to make a choice , they question it by raking over the ashes of the decision until it is dead and cold . |
| 14 | In this assessment of an explanation the writer has disagreed with the main proposition and supported it by looking at the Liberal and Labour parties separately , and secondly at the other factors making for Liberal decline . |
| 15 | As far as I understand from the gossip there 's nothing 'll come out of it by goin' to the polis ; it 's got to come from Parliament . |
| 16 | She had managed to cope with it by listening to the radio , playing tapes , even turning on breakfast television until its unremitting triviality had threatened to drive her even madder than she had felt herself going already . |
| 17 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 18 | He decided not to pander to it by asking for the admirers name . |
| 19 | Its intrepid pilot will control it by hauling on the suspension lines to angle the lift generated by the canopy . |
| 20 | But it was better not to anger it by sleeping on the bed . |
| 21 | Of course she started it by walking into the boudoir . |
| 22 | Cos she saw me putting the corn in and she decided she 'd try and get it by diving through the black net instead of going through the gate , like with a normal hen , you know , this one 's obviously brain dead or |
| 23 | But one day your Line will divide , and it is then that the magical Beastblood will fade , and you will find you can no longer strengthen it by lying with the creatures of the forest . |
| 24 | And with Silas listening to both sides of the conversation it was impossible to explain the situation thoroughly , therefore she said , ‘ Daddy — it 's Lucy — I 'm at a place called Wilder 's Wilderness — you reach it by turning off the Taupo road . ’ |
| 25 | He took vulgar public revenge on me by mocking in the pages of Madame Bovary a seal I had once given him as a token of love . |
| 26 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |
| 27 | When two angels , again in disguise , met Lot in Sodom , he also welcomed them by bowing to the ground once ( 19.1 ) . |
| 28 | We may try to explain them by pointing to the place they occupy in the larger narrative . |
| 29 | We wo n't find them by staying in the light and warm , I know that much . ’ |
| 30 | The Government encourages exploitation of most of us by preying on the fears of the employed and the misery of the unemployed . |