Example sentences of "by [verb] their [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Instead of projecting their own imaginings onto the forms of faceless archetypes , women surrealists tapped into their subconscious by taking their own bodies as source and subject matter . |
| 32 | Some horses indulge in this self-orientated activity by biting their own sides or legs , even to the extent of tearing their own flesh so that they bleed . |
| 33 | In other words , his strategy was to gain leverage over his powerful patrons by manipulating their own publics against them . |
| 34 | On royal orders , the towns were directed to see to their defences , and they had to do so by finding their own sources of finance through local effort . |
| 35 | And the Tory rebels could only win by making their own party lose . |
| 36 | And the Tory rebels could only win by making their own party lose . |
| 37 | However , in the investigators ' study of deaf mothers and their infants they have begun to see that the mothers create the crucial joint reference naturally but differently by altering their own sign language . |
| 38 | In view of this possibility , both the Carlists and the Falangists decided to forestall an imposed unification by negotiating their own , spontaneous merger . |
| 39 | Similarly , each and every producer , merely by setting their own marginal cost equal to the price of their output , will ensure that the marginal cost of films is twice the marginal cost of meals . |
| 40 | They express their anger by destroying their own lives and thereby hurting others , while seeming to be wide-eyed and innocent . |
| 41 | The only small crumb of comfort is that , since May 1990 , tenants ( but not managers ) of national brewers ' pubs can buy guest cask ales free of the tie — but the nationals have been quick to dominate this new market niche by organising their own lists of ‘ guest beers ’ , many of them brewed by their own subsidiaries . |
| 42 | A group of schoolchildren are drawing attention to the threat to tropical rainforests by composing their own ecological symphony . |
| 43 | Led by conductor Richard McNicol , pupils and teachers from 27 Cleveland primary schools have been exploring Mussorgsky 's Pictures at an Exhibition by composing their own versions of it . |