Example sentences of "by [verb] [pers pn] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They keep upsetting customers by pushing them for money . |
| 2 | Challenging the expert by suing him for negligence , where it is the expert , rather than the decision which is being challenged , is dealt with in Chapter 14 . |
| 3 | This means we can test ( x 1 , … , x n ) for efficiency in VMP by testing it for optimality in LP* ( x 1 , … , x n ) . |
| 4 | He ended up by selling it for £500 to Mr Staples , from whom he originally bought the site for the same sum . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So , against Clark , it must be argued that it is misleading to claim that because animals , imbeciles , and normal infants are all weak , defenceless , and at our mercy , to treat any of them in the same way ( say by killing them for food or using them in research ) is ‘ in moral terms , the very same act ’ ( Clark 1978 : 149 ) . |