Example sentences of "[vb -s] it by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then somebody comes and grabs it by the legs and pulls it . |
| 2 | I think one sees it by the change in the structure of big business , by so many management buy-outs and the realisation that size is not everything ; large companies concentrating more on their core businesses and getting rid of peripheral businesses and spending more on research and development in supporting core businesses . |
| 3 | and gets it by the throat and worries it ! |
| 4 | But when the Friend begins to age the Poet would wish to die : Here the motif of giving and receiving love , central to this group , uses the traditional metaphor of exchanging hearts , but reanimates it by the particularity with which the trope is extended . |
| 5 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |