Example sentences of "by [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By accepting the post Kanemaru had immediately bolstered Miyazawa 's position by bringing with him the support of the Takeshita faction , the largest of the LDP 's internal groupings . |
| 2 | In his very first book his admonitions about the indiscriminate use of stock , even of fine stock , were news , and good news : Do not spoil the special taste of the gravy obtained in the roasting of beef , veal , mutton or pork by adding to it the classical stock which gives to all meats the same deplorable taste of soup . |
| 3 | By 1939 he had strengthened Beechams by adding to it the firms which manufactured Macleans toothpaste and powders , Eno 's fruit salts , and the hair preparation Brylcreem . |
| 4 | The effect or their legislative changes , however , was to initiate the dismantling of the Poor Law from without , by withdrawing from it the most obviously deserving groups , though in accordance with principles little different from those of the Poor Law . |
| 5 | ‘ I got round them by selling to them the fact that I was doing what they wanted me to do which was to get out into the business world and make contacts . |
| 6 | In the f and ff it helps the tuba to combine with the trombones by imparting to it the ‘ edge ’ which it otherwise lacks . |
| 7 | The odd anecdote — for instance , James Laughlin 's of 1965 about how she advanced his education in Rapallo by reading to him the stories of Henry James — brings her momentarily into focus , but then she disappears again behind a smokescreen of gracious good breeding . |
| 8 | In particular , Keyes had come to identify with the Romantic movement , and it was Heath-Stubbs who was able to broaden Keyes 's base by tracing for him the origins of Romanticism in primitive legends through the medieval to the Augustan poets . |
| 9 | They 're afraid of their fears and they feel that by talking about it the children will actually have more problems , so children , being very aware of the adults ' fears , will not talk . |