Example sentences of "[vb -s] it by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes worried that he did n't have enough time to see his own music but it seems he has it by memory . |
| 2 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 3 | Mark emphasises it by only allowing one reference in his Gospel to Christians having the Holy Spirit , and that in a prophecy about what would be their lot in the days after the passion ( 13:11 ) . |
| 4 | At present the local authorities have a duty to provide residential accommodation if this is required for anyone who needs it by reason of age or infirmity . |
| 5 | and then somebody comes and grabs it by the legs and pulls it . |
| 6 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 7 | He marks it by distinguishing between resemblance in a given particular , resemblance which consists in the possession of certain common peculiarities , on the one hand , and what he calls ‘ mere general resemblance ’ , ‘ general unanalysable resemblance ’ , or ‘ simple likeness ’ , on the other . |
| 8 | The organisation which is gifted with intelligence shows it by arranging its actions on a certain plan … . |
| 9 | He shows it by being angry and rude all the time to everyone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Money supply will rise if ( a ) banks choose to hold a lower liquidity ratio and thus create more credit for an existing amount of liquidity ; ( b ) there is a total currency flow surplus ; ( c ) the government runs a PSBR and finances it by borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad ; ( d ) the government switches its method of financing the national debt to borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad . |
| 12 | He won MVP awards — Most Valuable Player , ’ he explained to Perdita , ‘ all summer , then blows it by testing positive for drugs the day before the US Open . |
| 13 | He does n't leave that sheep that he 's rescued in the wilderness , but he brings that one safely home as Jesus says , on his shoulder rejoicing , and he leads it by , as David says , the still waters , and by those green and verdant and lush pastures . |
| 14 | But , but I mean I suppose if we take sense of standing up against , it 's saying , and it stands up against , and it withstands against many sicknesses and evils and inserted into the middle of that , and succoureth it by virtue , so it helps by its goodness to withstand sicknesses and evils . |
| 15 | The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental . |
| 16 | and gets it by the throat and worries it ! |
| 17 | And erm I think it 's a little bit of creative accountancy on their part in saying that and in fact putting that five hundred thousand elsewhere , and also they have erm done a further piece of creative accountancy in that the provision for pay and price increases they have reduced by one point five million , and the combined budget reduces it by half that figure . |
| 18 | Right , O K. Now what it does , he 's said right , in September this is what we moved , and then what it does is divides it by four , O K , this is what we did therefore in a week . |
| 19 | The bird ties it by holding a strip on to a branch with one foot and then , using its beak , passing the end round the branch , threading it through one of the turns and pulling it tight . |
| 20 | Surely the time has arrived for the British Royal Family to put a proper end to the speculation that surrounds it by telling the truth . |
| 21 | This three-quarters works itself to death , generation after generation , at the behest of the female quarter , more sapient but no less savage , which dominates it by an impenetrable social mystification of oestrus . |
| 22 | Whenever the search selects a rule whose action is hierarchical , it sets up a new search problem , and solves it by calling search recursively . |
| 23 | As a first step , he or she identifies it by using a word-meaning which is conventionally taken to match the nature of the perception . |
| 24 | She does n't just carry a tune , she sends it by express mail and it seems to reach your spine long before your ears . |
| 25 | Alright then times it by X. |
| 26 | Two forty a hundred and twenty plus V times it by oh have to divide it by , so it would be er watts over voltage is er |
| 27 | So do I divide that by five and then times it by ten ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The stream may be followed down the field to a lateral path which crosses it by yet another God 's Bridge , a stone arch formed by nature . |
| 30 | He quotes frequently Seneca 's maxim , ‘ Quotidie morimur ’ ( We die daily ) , but transforms it by St Paul 's gloss : ‘ Quotidie morior per vestram gloriam , fratres ’ ( Brethren , for you I die every day : 1 Cor. 15.31 ) ( Lettere a i Familiari , I , p. 351 , and II , p. 371 ) . |