Example sentences of "[to-vb] they by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blind , deaf , but able to smell ; able to find them by the food smell , even in this raging , wind-swept , rain-driven night … |
| 2 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 3 | In Europe police organisation is hierarchical , centralised and supervised by the government , all of which may account for the tendency to rely on police investigations while , at the same time , declining to constrain them by the kind of normative rules we find in Anglo-American law . |
| 4 | But if you want your life story to grip them by the throat and take them along for a rattling good ride which will haunt them for years to come — forget it . |
| 5 | The factory survey found that one quarter of Japan 's biggest factories used robots and that a second quarter had plans to install them by the end of 1982 . |
| 6 | And you probably have to hire them by the week do you ? |
| 7 | If the products are high quality , customers who have been persuaded to buy them by the advertising campaign will continue to buy , and the increase in sales will be long-lasting . |
| 8 | We were using the UK schedule when we said to expect them by the end of this month . |
| 9 | Because you only have to identify them by a name not not a |
| 10 | Miss Honey , wishing to change the subject for the moment , gave the names of all these to Matilda and taught her how to recognise them by the shape of their leaves and the pattern of the bark on their trunks . |
| 11 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 12 | Plumbers refer to these as ‘ fifteen mil ’ , ‘ twenty-two mil ’ and ‘ twenty-eight mil ’ , but are equally likely to call them by the names of the premetrication pipes they replaced : ½in , ¾in and lin . |
| 13 | And he he used to cook them and do you know we we used to pluck them and we used to roast them by the fire in a |
| 14 | These contributions are not shown in official statistics of educational expenditure , but in 1990 an attempt was made to quantify them by the Mail on Sunday , which commissioned a survey of a representative sample of primary schools by the National Foundation for Educational Research . |