Example sentences of "[vb -s] they by " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 2 | They remain hidden until it is threatened , when it displays them by turning itself upside-down . |
| 3 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 4 | The Medau Society has them by the hundred — nay , by the thousand — and they have to be kept in order . |
| 5 | He sacrifices four lambs at the base of the li ga , then takes two inside and kills them by slitting open the throat and the chest and cutting off one of the forelegs at the shoulder , so the heart can be taken out , still pumping , and offered to the god on a plate on the dhāmi 's raised seat . |
| 6 | If they do so he grabs them by the neck and hauls them back to the fold . |
| 7 | Rather than locking himself in his bedroom staring mournfully out of the window , Lemn reaches out to his audience , grabs them by the lapels , rapping and ranting his bitter sweet rhyming couplets . |
| 8 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 9 | Mr Menem woos them by saying that both money wages and public-sector employment should rise . |
| 10 | Mira 's only possible recourse is to a parodic ventriloquy of male modes of communication which subtly undermines them by using word play to expose the ‘ fictions ’ that underpin supposedly objective information and ‘ expert ’ analyses from Herodotus 's time to the present . |
| 11 | If salmon is still the rich man 's herring , one can no longer think of herrings as the poor man 's salmon for they have become so expensive that one buys them by the troy ounce . |
| 12 | To convert the pre-1975 national insurance stamps to the new system , the DHSS adds up all the stamps paid and credited before 1975 , and divides them by 50 . |
| 13 | Now what tends to happen is , as you know , there is lots and lots of different guests on his chat show and if he feels threatened by them in any way shape or form , what he does he relaxes her , comes in over the top , turns them over , takes them by the shoulder and pushes them into the chair and what he is saying , he is saying , this is my chat show , do n't you submit . |
| 14 | Britain recaptures them by sending a large naval task force . |
| 15 | He flatters them by calling them , ‘ Good friends , sweet friends , ’ and , ‘ Romans and countrymen . ’ |
| 16 | Put the right clothes on someone and everyone judges them by their appearance . |
| 17 | It is helpful to approach the spiritual continuum which in fact unites them by way of the teaching of the thirteenth-century Franciscan Bonaventura 's description of the light of God as the sun of his divinity and the moon of his humanity . |
| 18 | This register lists them by serial number , price , type of lathe , date sold and to whom . |
| 19 | Table 4.12 lists them by rather general categories , partly adopted from the Pilkington Committee . |
| 20 | ASHINWARI or Afridi tribesman in Afghanistan grows the poppies and sends them by donkey or truck to his cousin a few miles away in Pakistan for processing . |
| 21 | Table 4.11 identifies them by newspaper group , and includes ILR . |
| 22 | It 's a whole a complete , and so it it emotionally prepares with the headlines , tell them what you 're gon na tell them then you tell them it and then it satisfies them by coming back to where you started . |
| 23 | One collects them by climbing the tree or by poking them with a long stick . |
| 24 | The female releases them by reaching forward with her hind leg , inserting her longest toe into the sac entrance and pulling it so that it enlarges and her young are able to clamber out . |
| 25 | Especially not if she puts them by the bed . ’ |
| 26 | Scaevola disappoints them by informing them that they are not freed of liability . |
| 27 | For the second lot , he may have another code which I do n't have or he just knows them by heart . |