Example sentences of "[noun prp] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , Lois even outdid Ken Dodd and Freddie Starr by winning the comedy section of the annual Whitbread Scouseology Awards , which are sponsored by the Echo . |
| 2 | Pompey take some beating … they proved that on saturday by coming back with an equaliser within two minutes a first for their new striker Lee Chapman … |
| 3 | Pompey take some beating … they proved that on saturday by coming back with an equaliser within two minutes a first for their new striker Lee Chapman … |
| 4 | Home James BOXING : James Toney retained his IBF middleweight crown in Las Vegas on Saturday by winning a 12round unanimous decision over fellow American Glenn Wolfe . |
| 5 | West need three points to be sure of promotion , Newcastle keeping up the challenge on Saturday by winning 54–21 at home to Plymouth . |
| 6 | Su Ragazzi have lost only once this year — to Jets earlier this month — but showed they are back on the rails on Saturday by defeating Team Fife for the loss of only 13 points , 15-3 , 15-5 , 15-5 . |
| 7 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 8 | The suit also alleges Crue members Nikki Sixx , Tommy Lee and Mick Mars libelled Neil by announcing he had left the band . |
| 9 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 10 | Lieutenant-General Abdul Haq Ulomi , who heads the country 's most powerful military and political body , said in an interview the two countries were testing the new surface-to-surface rockets in Afghanistan by supplying them to the mujahedin to use on Kabul . |
| 11 | He criticised the Prime Minister of Pakistan , Benazir Bhutto , saying she had become ‘ a cover ’ for continuing the war in Afghanistan by providing military help and training to the mujahedin . |
| 12 | Therefore a new link road was created joining Westburn Avenue to Baberton Mains Hill by passing beneath the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway line . |
| 13 | Gibeau set the tone of our stay at Garrigues by making us run and crawl around the house , singing all the time . |
| 14 | From Scardroy , where the public motor road ends , there is another old drovers ' route through to Loch Gowan and Achnasheen , so even without a car some interesting trips could be made taking in the Conon Corbetts by using post bus and train services . |
| 15 | On July 28 the new Armenian Supreme Soviet ( constituted on July 20 following elections begun in May ) openly defied Gorbachev by voting to suspend application of his decree on Armenian territory . |
| 16 | In his early years , Ceauşescu liked to cock a snook at Brezhnev by making visits to the districts bordering the territories Romania lost to the Soviet Union in 1940 . |
| 17 | He had a way of beating the offside trap of defenders like Newcastle 's McCracken by waiting until the ball was in his own half of the field before attacking . |
| 18 | In June 1926 the Balliol Players , a group of Oxford undergraduates , delighted Hardy by performing a Greek play in the garden . |
| 19 | In W. L. Warren 's words , " Henry had adopted the tactic of trying to discipline Richard by keeping him in uncertainty and had then become caught in the toils of his own deviousness . " |
| 20 | This is hardly the first time that Britain has enraged Brussels by attempting to wriggle out of European environmental legislation . |
| 21 | Not just smear the KGB by making them seem callously careless in their shooting . |
| 22 | England drew level with Pakistan by winning the Headingley Test match in four days . |
| 23 | This is not surprising : the Cubans had obtained a useful economic agreement from the Soviet Union , but it was hardly a substantial enough commitment to warrant precipitating an open break with the United States by resuming relations with the USSR . |
| 24 | With one hand he would try to mend Britain 's fences with the United States by using his own close relationship with President Eisenhower and other senior members of the US Administration , which he had formed when he was British political adviser at Eisenhower 's Allied Force Headquarters in the Mediterranean during the War . |
| 25 | The United States adopts a liberal approach and some foreign judges have actually been sworn in as commissioners by American courts , e.g. , German and Italian judges have been allowed to execute the Letters themselves in the United States by examining witnesses in their own language and according to their own procedures . |
| 26 | A DUBLIN building society has invested confidence in the national soccer team reaching next year 's World Cup finals in the United States by launching a special account for fans to save for the air fare . |
| 27 | Leone almost certainly defrauded Giardini by obtaining false receipts from the singers he engaged . |
| 28 | He believed as Lionel Curtis did that Indians ' souls had to be renovated before they were fit to govern : he deeply shocked the American journalist William Shirer by announcing that ‘ Self-government … is inconceivable and unattainable without the removal of untouchability , as it also is without Hindu-Moslem unity … we shall be unfit to gain independence so long as we keep in bondage a fifth of the population of Hindustan . ’ |
| 29 | Palace shocked Arsenal by taking a ninth-minute lead through Coleman , but Wright set up Merson 's first two minutes later with nice work on the right and Arsenal 's third for Campbell , a left-foot volley , in the 16th minute . |
| 30 | GEORGE GRAHAM last night startled Arsenal by admitting he was nowhere near a job for life at Highbury . |