Example sentences of "can [vb infin] them by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't like to tell people , ’ she laughs , ‘ but I can recognise them by their smell . |
| 2 | Many patients will have a family member who can collect them by car . |
| 3 | Two he can grab them by the legs . |
| 4 | he can grab them by the hands |
| 5 | Demonstrate , in talking about fiction and poetry , that they are developing their own views and can support them by reference to some details in the text , eg when talking about characters and actions in fiction . |
| 6 | Rather than expand the PSW to hold such a set of miscellaneous registers , we can replace them by an array of control registers , just as we introduced an array of accumulators . |
| 7 | Incidentally when doing phone-ins it 's a good idea to write down each person 5 name as they call in so that you can address them by name . |