Example sentences of "it by [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had immediately bombed and Sir David English , editor of the Daily Mail , had had to be brought in to rescue it by throwing out the new design ideas and making it look as old-fashioned as its daily counterpart . |
| 2 | The council had heard about impending publication late on Saturday night , too , he said , and had tried to stop it by taking out an interdict against the newspaper concerned . |
| 3 | of course some companies do this and one or two manage to benefit from it by sending out a different type ) f product from their range each year . |
| 4 | The fact that the aid is an extraordinary measure and that the patient has indicated that it is a burden absolves the doctor of his duty to continue treatment , and he may therefore discontinue it by switching off the machine . |
| 5 | More precisely , the general principle is that the court can neither extend the statute to a case not within its terms though perhaps within its purpose ( the casus omissus ) nor curtail it by leaving out a case that the statute literally includes , though it should not have . |
| 6 | Relieved Rangers manager Walter Smith knew it would need something special to break Marseille 's French resistance , and McSwegan provided it by finishing off a superb move started by Ian Durrant . |
| 7 | The pillar box was mounted on a platform about 10ft above deck and you reached it by climbing up a ladder . |
| 8 | Mapletoft , having knocked over the conversion , trumped it by banging over a 30-metre dropped goal off his weak foot to level at 20–20 . |