Example sentences of "[verb] everyone by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mime ( in Les Misérables ) , a big leading role ( Professor Higgins ) , a virtuoso turn ( as an American businessman in Youth At The Helm , he had impressed everyone by talking into five telephones at once — everybody in Taibach talked about it : Cis heard accounts ‘ up and down the street ’ ) , work on the radio and , above all , those scrupulous sessions in Ma Smith 's front room and on the high hills , schoolteacher and pupil , two sons of miners in Wales , striving to speak the language of Shakespeare faultlessly . |
| 2 | They usually disappointed everyone by recalling that he was remarkable for his unremarkableness , just another kid on the block ; not a hero , not a superstar at sports , not especially remembered for outstanding feats of school bravado nor had he made any particular impression on the girls . |
| 3 | Ian Lang and Malcolm Rifkind have amazed everyone by surviving , but they have only marginally improved their party 's position , from nine to 11 seats . |
| 4 | Once-stuffy AT&T has surprised everyone by displaying plenty of this . |
| 5 | Her mother had surprised everyone by dying just as they were recovering from her husband 's death . |
| 6 | The business of the Council was soon dealt with and merged into general feasting when the King surprised everyone by announcing he intended to join the Queen at Kinghorn . |
| 7 | This week the hearing reached a milestone with the first session of full cross-examination — a baptism of fire for the Department of Energy , which surprised everyone by agreeing to be interrogated on the full gamut of Whitehall 's current thinking on energy policy . |
| 8 | The conservatives surprised everyone by agreeing to defy the government and overspend by almost as much … ten million . |
| 9 | We all know the story of the two beautiful swans who brought forth what was regarded as an ugly duckling but which later surprised everyone by turning into a swan itself . |
| 10 | Dennis Hopper came back to Hollywood in that year of 1961 and shocked everyone by marrying into one of the most exclusive Hollywood families . |
| 11 | He would surprise everyone by getting a new speech right , but then show that it had been at the expense of other sections of dialogue . |
| 12 | Having scraped through against Ballymoney in the first round , the Bannsiders proceeded to shock everyone by doing the same to the Ports and Glens . |
| 13 | Shock everyone by doing something unconventional today . |
| 14 | Enter the magical Botha , who fooled everyone by swivelling behind his scrum to drop an audacious goal from miles . |
| 15 | Queen Soraya later recalled that sometime he would try to amuse everyone by barking like a dog during the screening of a film ( film shows remained a favourite form of palace relaxation till the end . ) |
| 16 | Expected to take his considerable talents south of the border , Lewis confounded everyone by choosing instead to cross the Atlantic and return to the country of his birth . |