Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] them by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just put them by the bed . |
| 2 | They are prone to the ‘ herd instinct ’ , and politicians can easily lead them by the nose . |
| 3 | Improvements in firms ' procedures were deemed necessary in many of the firms the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) visited , but in many cases firms were already implementing them by the time of our visits . |
| 4 | You can also recognise them by the round yellow bill patch . |
| 5 | They have been known to tire of tormenting their poor victims , often leaving them by the roadside , mortally wounded but still alive . |
| 6 | Whatever their regrets at the time , however , the Americans had certainly lost them by the early 1950s as they came increasingly to value the sterling area as a buffer for the dollar . |