Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Occasionally , Hector gratified her by using it . |
| 3 | But David surprised me by saying , ‘ OK , now we 've got that out of the way , let's go and do the rest of the album ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Menem woos them by saying that both money wages and public-sector employment should rise . |
| 5 | Whenever Minton entered Mr Alexander greeted him by leading the band into one of his two favourite songs : ‘ My Very Good Friend the Milkman ’ or ‘ I 'm Gon na Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter ’ . |
| 6 | Apart from housing , rent restriction and the like , Wilson flattered me by consulting me on a number of topics , on which I was never slow to express an opinion and never disappointed when that opinion was totally disregarded or not even mentioned . |
| 7 | Leeming tried to speak , but Duncan silenced him by putting his finger to his lips to soothe him , to help relax him . |
| 8 | In the bedlam the Spaniard built a 5-0 lead but then 22-year-old sports journalist Nicola stunned her by fighting back to 5-3 . |
| 9 | Knighton defied him by signing ‘ Midget ’ Moffat from Workington . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Having offended officers by omitting Jacques Soustelle , the most well-known Gaullist advocate of French Algeria , from his first government , de Gaulle appeased them by bringing Soustelle into the government in July . |
| 12 | Britain recaptures them by sending a large naval task force . |
| 13 | Ferdinando surprised her by having someone write a letter for him towards the end of March which made it plain that Mrs Browning had fared no better in Rome than in Siena and was very ill . |
| 14 | When God appeared to Abraham in the guise of three strangers in need of hospitality , Abraham greeted them by bowing himself to the ground once ( 18.2 ) . |
| 15 | They would be quite happy to forget all those things so long as Fedorov obliged them by carrying out certain routine tasks from time to time . |
| 16 | Rob teases her by saying that she 'd rather go round a supermarket than climb a mountain , but there 's ‘ many a true word … ’ and all that . |
| 17 | I 've never seen anything like it before , ’ and she was looking from one to the other , wondering which one it was meant to fit , when Miss Rene startled her by saying , ‘ Well , get your coat and things off and try it on . ’ |
| 18 | This was an insensitive remark , and Ayling shamed her by suggesting that the things one ought to be able to do were often impossible . |
| 19 | A plausible story , but then Edouard spoiled it by resisting going home . ’ |
| 20 | Marguerite surprised her by nodding wryly and making a small grimace . |
| 21 | Magritte did it by playing with paradox : day and night both ; picture and landscape both . |
| 22 | Wagner differentiated them by associating drama with visionary illusion and music with dreams , but also made an attempt at establishing parity between them by pronouncing drama " the visible counterpart of music " and by stressing the equal greatness of Beethoven 's music and Shakespearean drama . |
| 23 | Closer co-operation with Western Europe was ideally suited to Adenauer 's policy of distancing himself from the Eastern bloc after September 1955 , when Moscow upset him by recognising East Germany as a sovereign state . |
| 24 | The old lady would have walked back to her villa , but Miguel stopped her by closing the door , and insisting that she wait for a golf cart . |
| 25 | Chang surprised me by winning the French Open so soon . ’ |
| 26 | How could Binyon have failed to remember this , when Pound complimented him by saying , ‘ He has carefully preserved all the faults of his original ’ ? |
| 27 | Fergie muffed it by buying an Irishman — Keane — instead of an English player . |