Example sentences of "by [verb] [adv prt] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 2 | By trimming down the first act , they kept the pace going , and the second act benefited . |
| 3 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 4 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 5 | You can ‘ fool ’ the drive by covering up the second capacity signalling hole . |