Example sentences of "it by [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pedestrians know that runners have a programme to fulfil , and respect it by getting out of their way . |
| 2 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 3 | It is peat-coloured , and its gills both camouflage it by breaking up its outline and enable it to breathe in still water . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If you find yourself in this difficulty , first try to get out of it by using only compatible drives . |
| 8 | You achieve it by using more fluid fabrics and gentler construction . |
| 9 | If you seriously wish to lose your weight then it is most sensible to do it by looking carefully at your diet and eating a good balance of carbohydrates and protein with a reduced fat content . |
| 10 | ‘ Clearly they hate each other 's company and they deal with it by looking away from each other . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | De Rose had set about it by gathering together some sixty top pilots , a sparkling galaxy of stars , many of them banded together in the famous ‘ Groupe des Cigognes ( Storks ) . ’ |
| 13 | Some of the Maritime school go further and ask the question , ‘ Who are We ? ; and answer it by pointing out that We are not just the people living in the United Kingdom today . |
| 14 | The facts are that if you propose an idea , four times out of ten someone will take issue with it by pointing out snags and difficulties ( see Difficulty stating on page 52 ) . |
| 15 | They also suggest that their choice of index was incorrect but justify it by pointing out that it included both industrial and financial sectors and so could not have any undue bias . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We should remember that it was ill the employers " interests to claim that it was not worth providing women with a long training because they would waste it by leaving early ; while it was in the trade union 's interest to claim that women were incompetent because they had only received a short training . |
| 18 | She tried to get out of it by standing up and stretching as if the conversation was threatening to bore her stiff . |
| 19 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 20 | Ferguson said : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation about Lee Sharpe and we want to end it by saying clearly what is wrong with him . |
| 21 | She 'd been slow to see that , and tried to make up for it by saying quickly : ‘ Her jumping over ca n't have helped Eismark 's career . ’ |
| 22 | The Palestinians were peeved when the Americans , spotting an impasse , tried to bridge it by coming up with a compromise . |
| 23 | ‘ There was this one scene where Dustin first did it by coming on very strong as the scene opened and then gradually bringing things down until everything was just suggested by innuendo and gestures . |
| 24 | it by coming down |
| 25 | ‘ And you show it by putting in for a transfer behind my back , ’ he roared , his face as black as thunder . |
| 26 | Could you do it by adding up on paper ? |
| 27 | Is Prince Edward gay ? , we ended it by asking just one : Who cares ? |
| 28 | We would take some convincing that it can be right to depart from it by punishing more harshly than an offender ‘ deserves ’ on a standard tariff , for example by sentencing an offender to an exceptionally long custodial sentence for purposes of reform or incapacitation . |
| 29 | Stewart could argue that it was little more than a playful cuff and Christophi certainly made a real meal of it by falling dramatically to the ground clutching his face . |
| 30 | And I went up and down the road and miles away then came back and I could n't stop because this bike was very old fashioned and you had to stop it by pedalling back |