Example sentences of "can not [verb] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home . |
| 2 | Yeah you ca n't set it by the book |
| 3 | Tonight , here , now , we ca n't hurt anyone by making love . ’ |
| 4 | We ca n't acquire it by any other means other than receiving the gift as God the gracious giver makes it available . |
| 5 | ‘ We are looking at voluntary redundancy , early retirement , job swaps , but if we ca n't do it by the end of the year we will have to look at compulsory redundancy . ’ |
| 6 | One of the most respected of our club members , on our committee of management , Pavel Pavlovich Gaganov , an elderly man ad highly esteemed , had formed the innocent habit of following anything he had to say with the vehement addition , ‘ No , sir , you ca n't lead me by the nose ! ’ |
| 7 | On weekdays , however , Sue is prepared to stay open for a customer who ca n't make it by 4.30pm provided they call to let her know they are coming ! |
| 8 | It does mean that they ca n't improve themselves by any small land therefore likely ! evolutionary step : none of their immediate neighbours in the local equivalent of ‘ biomorph space ’ would do any better . |
| 9 | You ca n't give anything by mouth to an unconscious casualty because they 'll , you 'll choke them , they ca n't swallow . |
| 10 | You ca n't win it by changing the parameters er if you do change the parameters of course then you 'll be fighting a different war and your objectives then become different . |
| 11 | I said ‘ You ca n't prove anything by violence . |
| 12 | You know if this was my business , I would have budgeted for this amount of advertising to be ab I mean you ca n't sit it by getting at home er you ca n't get it by sitting at home . |
| 13 | Try the bed out — you ca n't judge it by gingerly sitting on the side , so slip off your shoes and lie down |
| 14 | You can only raise it two you ca n't raise it by more than the , what it is in the pot . |
| 15 | You ca n't raise it by the way . |
| 16 | yeah , I can not eat it by itself , I could n't eat |
| 17 | If you can not do it by constructing the notion of pains which are not yours , you can not do it any other way . |
| 18 | ‘ You can not see it , you can not measure it by instrumentation , but there are incredibly powerful air currents up in the stratosphere which can move at anything up to 300 mph . |
| 19 | They are the eagles ’ oldest foe and because they are clever an know they can not fight us by themselves they will mob us with numbers , and try to make us drop our prey . |
| 20 | However , even on the view that the plaintiff must be the target , no malice or spite is required : apart from the protection of the trade disputes legislation the tort would be committed by a trade union officer calling his members out on strike and he can not defend himself by arguing that his purpose was the increase of his members ' wages : unlike the tort of conspiracy , no predominant purpose to injure the plaintiff is required . |
| 21 | He can not approach it by superimposing successive and ever more accurate ( more informed ) mental approximations to the real thing ; he can not name it , like an object , without fear of equivocation ; but rather it lies here , in the moment through which he is passing , and the important thing is to see that . |
| 22 | In Bombay alone , it is estimated that up to $10 million a year may change hands as agents like Selvam match up impoverished donors , willing to exchange a kidney for cash , with wealthy patients who can not obtain one by any other means . |
| 23 | Well er y it 's you can not solve it by a security policy alone . |