Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] by [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike M&S says Guha , ‘ We will do it cheap by cutting the frills . |
| 2 | We always regarded it as a partnership , we just had n't made it official by telling the Institute or the Inland Revenue . ’ |
| 3 | Critics have drooled and dribbled over her out-of-this-world beauty and wide , spacey blue eyes , but now Kim Basinger is confounding them all by playing the title creature-from-another-planet in My Stepmother Is An Alien . |
| 4 | Neighbour Stuart Partlett said : ‘ We 're hoping he gets the all-clear and shows them all by taking the gold . |
| 5 | Doing as she had bid herself , she walked into the cottage and then spoilt it all by slamming the door . |
| 6 | GOLD STRIKE : Linford Christie has struck it rich by winning the 100m final |
| 7 | She managed to get it right by watching the woman opposite to her . |
| 8 | ‘ of atrocious memory , who courted and married fourteen wives , and destroyed them all by tickling the soles of their feet when they was sleeping in the consciousness of innocence and virtue ’ . |
| 9 | The second is the fact that we tend to make ourselves miserable by exploring the limits to which we can resist the temptation to go all the way . |