Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it by [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering .
2 Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men .
3 He uses his long bill to probe for worms , grubs and other insects , and as his nostrils are at the tip he has to clear it by forcing out air . ’
4 The Palestinians were peeved when the Americans , spotting an impasse , tried to bridge it by coming up with a compromise .
5 Some want to expand it by making themselves indispensable within different agencies and organizations , even if this entails the loss of a clear identity as a psychologist ( e. g .
6 This is elementary contract law , because , obviously , once the contract has been formed it is too late to try to change it by adding additional terms ( see Olley v Marlborough Court Ltd [ 1949 ] 1 KB 532 ) .
7 Ferguson said : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation about Lee Sharpe and we want to end it by saying clearly what is wrong with him .
8 In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side .
9 If the graphics controller on your PC is part of the motherboard then you may need to disable it by removing a jumper switch , altering a DIP switch or running the BIOS setup program .
10 ‘ The three are married together , ’ he said , and then tried to prove it by citing the events of a previous day .
11 The staunchest opponents of reform strike a revealing pose : rather than argue against it , they seek to undermine it by espousing an extreme version .
12 Nevertheless it was used in the early aeroplanes and an attempt was made to protect it by binding the joints with varnished tape which was never very effectual .
13 Although it was difficult , in practice , to stop war from breaking out , serious attempts were made to control it by emphasising that only a war duly and properly declared by a soverign authority could be regarded as just .
14 Rather than selecting the particular class of political events as the stuff of history , and then seeking to explain it by appealing to the play of national and personal interest , the Annales school advocates eclectic research into such diverse topics as economics , populations , social institutions , technologies and climate , designed to contribute to a complete picture of social life .
15 If we 're going to increase nursery provision , we 've got to do it by putting , putting money where our mouths are , huh , putting our money where perhaps some Conservative government peoples ' mouths are as well , and they 're all very keen to will the ends but they 're not so keen to will the means , anyway this is the means , there 's a million pounds here erm , next year we we effect , and other members can speak about that and the work that they first have erm , I do notice that , that the latest report from the erm commission on on education and the book we all had to read does give us this first priority , er provision in nursery education particularly in areas , er deprived areas .
16 We 're not going to get it by resurrecting the stadia that we 've got at the moment ; new ones have to be built , and if they 're going to be built in the high population areas , you know , then I think it 's realistic for the clubs in that particular area to share .
17 ‘ But we have really had to earn it by improving the quality of our product . ’
18 But while that social ease can work in his favour , he has had to temper it by becoming an earnest , moderate , church-going swot .
19 When the area of tension stresses ahead of the crack tip reaches the interface , it will try to open it by pulling the two sides apart .
20 That was as far as the conversation went , for I decided to end it by pushing open the screen door .
21 However , its brain was minuscule and Hercules managed to trap it by pretending to be an army and getting the animal confused and tangled in foliage .
22 This loss is an empty gap in the characters ' lives and both Celie and Ponyboy try to fill it by installing great love and understanding into their friendships .
23 And we try to explain it by saying the craft is accelerating — it 's being pushed on by the rockets placed at that end of the craft .
24 Dedication and commitment are part of the Lawerence lifestyle , they always said he 's got a big heart , he hopes to prove it by winning his place back in the England side and then give the Australians a roasting when they tour here for the Ashes next summer .
25 Thus , if the body clock is delayed then one tries to advance it by giving bright light in the morning , and if it is advanced then the light is given in the evening to delay it .
26 They aim to finance it by attracting a minimum of one million households paying £10 a month each for access to the football-only channel .
27 The council had heard about impending publication late on Saturday night , too , he said , and had tried to stop it by taking out an interdict against the newspaper concerned .
28 I would n't want to upset it by walking on it too hard with my heavy boots . ’
29 supplementing the teacher 's expertise with that of the group ( instead of the group and consultant trying to supplant it by showing they can handle things better )
30 So , some other understanding of alienation is required to validate it as the dynamic which establishes a proletariat and a property-owning bourgeoisie as Marx 's two antinomies predestined to engage in that life-and-death struggle ; and Marx seeks to provide it by postulating alienation as intrinsic .
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