Example sentences of "do [pers pn] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a contracting business , and he 's done it by the skin of his teeth . |
| 2 | The Handmaid 's Tale is director Volker Schlondorff 's first American feature , and he 's done it by the book . |
| 3 | They 've done it by an alteration in the way local government finance works , so that the cost of providing new council housing and the cost of maintaining existing council housing has to be met entirely from the rent paid by existing council tenants , and erm a certain amount of Government subsidy . |
| 4 | from , from the , you could either do it by a method of taxing landlords so heavily |
| 5 | ‘ We are looking at voluntary redundancy , early retirement , job swaps , but if we ca n't do it by the end of the year we will have to look at compulsory redundancy . ’ |
| 6 | Finding the money for the cycleways could be an uphill struggle , but the forest authorities are confident they 'll do it by the end of the century . |
| 7 | If it 's a works van tipping rubbish , they 'll charge them more , but you 'll have to pay , I do n't know whether they 'll do it by the load or by the bin bag or , what , you 'll have to pay to dump your rubbish . |
| 8 | ‘ I shall do it by the dollop like I always do . ’ |
| 9 | This was not Dickens ' fault that he changed the ending , he was practically forced to do it by a friend . |
| 10 | Second question Chairman , er , and several of the , of the Acts er , they provide er advisory , advisory to the licensing authorities , advisory to district councils , with example pet shops , advisory to district councils , does that mean that they on I can only er , reckon that they think that places probably expect it if they 're asked to do it by the District Council . |
| 11 | So she said well do n't do n't put them down again I 'm doing it by the computer . |
| 12 | Covering means ‘ doing it by the book ’ — erring on the side of caution and producing concrete evidence of activity when making discretionary decisions whose outcome will be known to the officer 's supervisor or any senior staff . |
| 13 | Yes , because of the change described ( above ) , from the norms of science ( free enquiry , publications , respect for truth , resistance to argument from authority ) to the norms of commerce ( cost consciousness , restriction to profitable study , limited publication and need to retain commercially valuable technology secret , respect for adequate solutions , acceptance of the authority of ‘ current good practice ’ and standards and specifications — ‘ doing it by the book ’ ) . |
| 14 | No it does all over the place , wherever put newspaper down , he does it on the carpet so kept doing it by the cooker so we put newspaper down there , and put the toys away , see they was in the way you see , put newspaper down there and then next would n't have that , . |
| 15 | He thought it about the stupidest remark he 'd ever made — and so did she by the look on her face . |
| 16 | Well they do it by the kilo which works out cheaper . |
| 17 | I do it by the book . |