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 .
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