Example sentences of "it by having " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's his birthday , Monsieur Armand , but I 'm afraid we were spoiling it by having a political discussion . ’ |
| 2 | The diet was too severe and I broke it by having eggs and fish . |
| 3 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I managed to avoid a lot of it by having some tasks of my own . |
| 6 | You do it by having very high inflation . |
| 7 | It seems if we agree to these new constituents coming through , we 'll only do it by having additional buildings which are utterly wasteful and quite honestly Mr Deputy Speaker , I think you 'll your constituents a very distressed indeed about the waste , the fraud and the mismanagement of the E C , of course Sir . |
| 8 | in fact erm we only managed to get away with it by having the one |
| 9 | This is a general facility we might like to write in which we would allow us to work like that on any job there is n't for some reason a job , a good reason why a kick-in procedure ca n't be followed , that we deal with it by having em , in the master job file which states that , states the deliberate erm , position rather than an accident . |