Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such person was John Curran , a producer at ITN , who had already demonstrated his kindness by giving me an answering machine so that I could screen any calls from the press . |
| 2 | Later , as the Shah began to get news of his own , repaid their kindness by giving them the stop press himself . |
| 3 | But I would consider it a great honour and privilege if you would allow me to help you overcome this disadvantage by making you a gift of whatever you may need . ’ |
| 4 | But I just hope Rugby League bosses will help the rest of the British talent by giving them the right set-up in which to play and train . ’ |
| 5 | And once they were christened , as we might expect , the ‘ Hooligans ’ were understood as an entirely unprecedented and ‘ un-British ’ phenomenon : indeed , we must allow that it was most ingenious of late Victorian England to disown the British Hooligan by giving him an ‘ Irish ’ name . |
| 6 | You ca n't stop plaque forming but you can prevent it taking a hold by removing it every day . |
| 7 | Since the teacher has already used a stick as a sign of Beowulf 's authority he decides to give this additional prominence by making it the object to be retrieved from under the chair . |
| 8 | The allusion to the famous novella in the Decameron ( 3 , 10 ) , in which ‘ to put the devil back in hell ’ was a euphemism for sexual intercourse by using which a hermit seduced a young novice , is given an application quite the reverse of Boccaccio 's warm-hearted celebration of the flesh : ‘ Yet this shall I ne'er know , but live in doubt/Till my bad angel fire my good one out . ’ |
| 9 | We can see him as it were constantly restraining his inventiveness , constantly trying to conform to an orthodox view against which his thoughts and emotions rebel , constantly trying to justify Chinese intelligence by dragging it a little nearer to some Western precedent . |
| 10 | By 1958 , with more than 50 papers published , the University of London recognised Barber 's contribution to chemotherapy by awarding him a DSc . |
| 11 | The designers decided to supply the cognitive power of this machine by giving it a human . |
| 12 | Lucille diverted the old lady by showing her the supper room which , like the ballroom , had been draped with the Belgian colours of black , gold and scarlet . |
| 13 | Granted that it is possible to initiate the civilisation of a child by giving it a knowledge of right and wrong , the question arises ‘ How does this knowledge become an automatic power of conscience which enables or compels the child , and later the adult , to act accordingly ? ’ . |
| 14 | They will confirm the booking by sending you an invoice and detailed joining instructions . |
| 15 | Dogs Today 's Launch issue cover story last November featured Guinness , who earned a Bounce Superdog award when he saved his owner from a diabetic coma by fetching him a Mars bar . |
| 16 | Jeanette and Simon Edwards , who lost two babies in three years , want to show their support for the new group by giving it a cash boost . |
| 17 | A worker stimulates the grub to produce its silk by giving it a little squeeze . |
| 18 | Provide a sense of seclusion and an attractive feature in a garden which is lacking in privacy by building yourself an arbour . |
| 19 | If you want to lay concrete , you can improve its appearance by giving it a surface treatment , such as drawing a stiff broom over it when the initial set has taken place , which gives a fine-lined texture . |
| 20 | Mrs O'Neill had the sweetest tooth in Adam 's Creek , and Jed won a place in her affections on his very first day by buying her a Rocky Road on his way back from work . |
| 21 | The editor of the Church of England Newspaper remarked that the overzealousness of Ramsey 's friends did him a disservice by making him the representative of an intolerant school of thought and by inflating his reputation beyond what his record would endorse . |
| 22 | At the government-controlled newspaper Izvestia , the staff threatened to go on strike when their editor , who is a Kravchenko-like conservative , tried to get rid of his liberal deputy by giving him a cushy job as Madrid correspondent . |
| 23 | Despite very limited success in establishing schools , he did his best to compel young noblemen to gain a basic education by making it a condition of securing a marriage certificate . |
| 24 | TERRORISTS tried to murder a soldier last night by giving him a tin of chocolates containing a bomb . |
| 25 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 26 | In the first case of its kind since the introduction of that offence by the USSR Supreme Soviet on May 14 , 1990 , she pleaded guilty to charges that on several occasions she had insulted Gorbachev , for example by calling him a " fascist criminal " and comparing him to Hitler . |
| 27 | This may be tackled for example by paying them a relatively higher fixed salary with less dependent upon the outcome . |
| 28 | Our knowledge and our moral values inevitably reflect and are marked by our own finitude and all its limitations , and to scale religion down to them is to sow the seeds of fanaticism and intolerance by giving them a more absolute standing than they properly deserve . |
| 29 | ‘ The aim of the programme is to assist them to improve the quality of the work they do and raise efficiency by giving them the task of analysing their own and their colleagues ’ activities and producing improvements . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister of Mauritius , Anerood Jugnauth , narrowly failed on Aug. 21 to secure the necessary 75 per cent support in the Legislative Assembly for proposals to change the country 's constitution by making it a republic within the Commonwealth . |