Example sentences of "do [pron] by " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ I asked , ‘ do you by any chance know where the Gypsy Queen lives ? ’ |
2 | He said , ‘ Do you by some chance fail to follow me ? ’ |
3 | Do you by any chance think I 'm faking ? ’ |
4 | So you had , you , you had to get it all down , you know , do everything by yourself ? |
5 | I do it by the book . |
6 | When Queens have to they do it by a cerebral process passed down in the blood … |
7 | They do it by going without themselves . |
8 | Vertebrates do it by means of a backbone and internal skeleton , arthropods achieve structural rigidity by means of a tough external skeleton or shell . |
9 | I do n't know I mean I think it depends how you d whether it is as formal as that or whether you almost do it by saying to er to half a dozen careers officers and half a dozen employment officers , Fill that , you know , Fill that in . |
10 | Okay the way you do it by hand is you just say , one times twenty three , is twenty three . |
11 | What I what I 'd really hope for is to be able to do it without having to go to college and just do it by experience but that 's I 'd have to be awful awful good . |
12 | But he checked every bit of my work of course and so most of the time do it by himself and let and me do other things . |
13 | We do it by providing a health insurance tax credit of up to $3,750 for each low-income family . |
14 | ‘ I have a position to keep up , sonny , and I do it by leaving little messages so that people know I 'm on top of the situation . |
15 | Whether they do it by name or by status level or whatever else , really does n't matter . |
16 | You do it by having very high inflation . |
17 | Right , do it by , good that 's very good . |
18 | They all end up the same way but you do it by different ways . |
19 | Well they do it by the kilo which works out cheaper . |
20 | Be quite good , although you maybe do it by accident sometime and be rather jerky ! |
21 | Do it by card . |
22 | They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature . |
23 | do it by hand . |
24 | Matilda said , ‘ Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it . |