Example sentences of "by [v-ing] her [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to our overworked ( but ever smiling N.D.O. , , please help to improve the quality of her life by phoning her at home between the hours of 8am – 9am or during office hours . |
| 2 | But the Protestant Elizabeth , the queen whom he thought he was flattering by likening her to Deborah ( the prophetess who , with the help of the Lord , saved Israel from the Canaanites ) , was never to forgive him , and this ensured that his role in the years of success for the Scottish Protestants after 1560 was less than it might otherwise have been . |
| 3 | Diana heals Fergie rift by warning her of split |
| 4 | Green has pled not guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to murdering his wife , Julie , 24 , by clubbing her to death with a lump hammer in a storeroom at the rear of their home in Gidlow Lane , Wigan , in October 1991 . |
| 5 | Therefore , as soon as Isabelle was old enough , it was decided to exploit her aptitude for art by sending her to Paris — out of harm 's way . ’ |
| 6 | Jane surprised Juliana by pointing her towards leggings and tapered trousers worn with outsized cardigans and sweaters . |
| 7 | It is only by setting woman apart as Other , by resisting intimacy with her , by treating her with contempt and aggression , that men assert their own independent and fragile masculinity . |
| 8 | He comforted himself by watching her on television . |
| 9 | On the other hand her present emphasis may be retrospectively the harder because she was so emphatic in the Sixties when Burton ‘ crucified Sybil ’ by leaving her for Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 10 | Now Budd , who devastated America 's Mary Decker-Slaney by tripping her in Los Angeles eight years ago , is facing extinction at world level . |
| 11 | ACCUSED kidnapper Christopher Casabona yesterday denied plotting to murder a girl by gassing her with exhaust fumes . |