Example sentences of "[vb infin] by [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the craving returned , I could cope by contemplating it for an hour or two , until it went away . |
| 2 | You may well be able to foretell how the card may operate by examining it against the picture of the results on page 28 of the manual . |
| 3 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 4 | If Ingard had bought a pup , it seemed wholly improbable that any other shrewd financier would oblige by buying it from him . |
| 5 | Yeltsin could help by ridding it of bureaucratic incubuses . |