Example sentences of "it by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , it was much too big , but I got a stand , you see , got it by the tractor . |
| 2 | When you come to the burn , cross it by the footbridge and follow the path straight ahead which rises then falls to the road and a footbridge over the Tweed Cross the footbridge if you want to make a diversion to see either Dryburgh Abbey or Wallace 's Statue . |
| 3 | For example , it has been found that some striking perceptual differences in viewing a wire-frame cube ( including , for example , the ease with which certain mental images can be formed of it ) depend on which alternative structural description of the object is assigned to it by the perceiver ( Hinton 1979 ) . |
| 4 | She slipped a small bag off her shoulder and , leaving it by the wall , sat a little way off . |
| 5 | An ingenious Yamaha employee suggested a hoist for the drum , so that the jug could simply be held under it by the sprayman , or woman ( women undertake almost any job in the factory ) , making life easier , ensuring less waste and almost certainly fewer days off work due to back injuries ! |
| 6 | In Indonesia , for example the US-owned oil company Caltex had some 10,000 people working for it by the beginning of the 1980s . |
| 7 | Michael ran up to the attic and took the helmet off the chest , holding it by the strap . |
| 8 | a contracting business , and he 's done it by the skin of his teeth . |
| 9 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 10 | You develop it by the subject of our next section — listening . |
| 11 | The village of Tickton in East Yorkshire is situated on the Beverley to Bridlington road about two and a half miles north-east of Beverley and separated from it by the river Hull . |
| 12 | You divide it by the bottom |
| 13 | Now we 've divided it by the tan of fifty because you see |
| 14 | The capital 's importance in the cloth trade is seen in the part played in it by the Fellowship of the Merchant Adventurers of London . |
| 15 | They say it contains eight per cent alcohol , and the locals down it by the gallon . |
| 16 | You should have told him that we pay for it by the gallon not by the year ! |
| 17 | An offeror who later attempts to add a material new condition to the offer document may be required to withdraw it by the Panel ( see the Panel Statement of 24 January 1983 on Bassishaw Investments Limited and UDS Property Group plc ) . |
| 18 | The Labour Party , thus , had given notice that it would not be prepared to accept a Leader chosen for it by the Monarch . |
| 19 | If one wants to deliver a caring service one will deliver a better caring service if one manages it efficiently and uses the resources committed to it by the taxpayer to the maximum possible extent . |
| 20 | I am praised because I held it by the tail . ’ |
| 21 | It also need have no privileges , since those required are passed to it by the initiator ( ie. the LIFESPAN Manager ) . |
| 22 | Cross it by the stone bridge . |
| 23 | I think one sees it by the change in the structure of big business , by so many management buy-outs and the realisation that size is not everything ; large companies concentrating more on their core businesses and getting rid of peripheral businesses and spending more on research and development in supporting core businesses . |
| 24 | But already by the time of Pope Gregory I ( d. 604 ) the monastic movement , widely diversified as it was , was being integrated into the life of the church at large and open to the demands made on it by the church 's interests and needs . |
| 25 | Set back from the road it faces the south wall of the magnificent St Magnus Cathedral , and is separated from it by the road , and by a peaceful park area and an avenue of trees . |
| 26 | This is contained in section 1 , which provides that the Bank of England shall have the powers conferred on it by the Act , and also ‘ the duty generally to supervise the institutions authorised by it in the exercise of those powers . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Have you ever tried a cold egg-and-breadcrumbed veal cutlet eaten in the fingers — holding it by the bone of course ? ’ |
| 28 | In his philosophy reality is the spiritual world contemplated by reason , the material world being a mere receptacle for the ideal forms imposed on it by the world-soul . |
| 29 | It 's very similar to the two previous instructions , but because you 're going into an open A note , I need to show that you must previously lower it by the equivalent of 1 fret , so you simply pick the open A , having already lowered the note by a half-tone with your tremolo arm . |
| 30 | But when the Friend begins to age the Poet would wish to die : Here the motif of giving and receiving love , central to this group , uses the traditional metaphor of exchanging hearts , but reanimates it by the particularity with which the trope is extended . |