Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le Gall translated it by forme , thus by the choice of two words remoulding the whole Neo-Confucian cosmology after the analogy of Aristotelian form and matter . |
| 2 | Relieved Rangers manager Walter Smith knew it would need something special to break Marseille 's French resistance , and McSwegan provided it by finishing off a superb move started by Ian Durrant . |
| 3 | But he had written his book — the people in Glasgow and Paisley knew it by heart , nearly — now it was up to themselves . |
| 4 | Cecilia could see that the man with the bear held it by a chain looped round its neck . |
| 5 | SUNDERLAND ambulanceman Ian Archbold played it by ear last night to win the North-East Championships 10,000 metres in convincing style at the Cleveland County Stadium , Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |
| 7 | 5 Instead of multiplying a number by 42 , Jane multiplied it by 24 and got 432 . |
| 8 | Finance was provided by the ITV companies as a ‘ subscription ’ , and the companies raised it by setting the advertising time on Channel 4 in their own regions . |
| 9 | He said his party 's policy was to ensure there was a nursery place for every three and four-year-old whose parent wanted it by 2000 . |
| 10 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 11 | Christmas came , and the German officers celebrated it by singing ‘ Heilige Nacht ’ and drinking heavily in the Casa Gandini , which they still occupied . |
| 12 | POLICE are fingerprinting the tip of a 66,000year-old stalactite stolen from caves at Powys , Wales — after the repentant thief returned it by post . |
| 13 | Constanza shelved it by promising to take him to Rome after the war for some slap-up ceremony ; meanwhile they made do before a registrar . |
| 14 | There was an atmosphere everywhere of intense relief , and people expressed it by dancing , singing , bonfires , flags , balloons and general rejoicing . |
| 15 | You can see how Dorothy Sayers did it by having the victim being supposed to be actively painting when in fact he was dead , and it is by using some such piece of lateral thinking , making the victim provide the alibi in this instance , that the trick is probably most easily brought off . |
| 16 | Every pilot in his squadron knew it by heart . |
| 17 | Lieutenant Calley seized it by one leg , flung it back into the ditch and shot it . |
| 18 | Government forces reached it by dinghy , as part of an attack which the LTTE said was accompanied by heavy and indiscriminate shelling and bombing over Jaffna . |
| 19 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 20 | Of these , two were not immutable patient characteristics — access to a hospital dietitian reduced the random haemoglobin A 1 value by a mean of 1.06% , and the general practitioner having a special interest in diabetes reduced it by 0.86% . |
| 21 | The Imperial Rescript on Education was promulgated in October 1890 and thereafter read regularly in the schools of the empire until all children knew it by heart . |
| 22 | The ITA saved it by postponement of sums due . |
| 23 | A plausible story , but then Edouard spoiled it by resisting going home . ’ |
| 24 | Dad fixed it by removing all four wheels and with an effort we dragged it back into position . |
| 25 | However , no sooner was the intrigue launched than Baldwin killed it by the simple expedient of deciding to remain in office and meet Parliament . |
| 26 | Magritte did it by playing with paradox : day and night both ; picture and landscape both . |
| 27 | The trouble was that Baldwin did it by the methods he had forsworn and that his words and his style of appeal had become alienated front his actions . |
| 28 | Nick spotted it by the sudden flash of light on its chassis , then put it from his mind . |
| 29 | Kirov held it by one comer , wiped it with his sleeve , and dropped it into the post box . |
| 30 | 8 Instead of multiplying a number by 98 , Julie multiplied it by 89 and got the answer 23,585 . |