Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children and adults alike will be enchanted by the unusual and lovable collection of animals and can learn all about them by completing our special Animal Village Activity Pack . |
| 2 | Children can find out these differences and we might encourage them to talk about them by posing such questions as : |
| 3 | Osbern returned to Canterbury , not to make peace by abandoning his efforts to get recognition for the despised saints , but to gain recognition for them by writing their biographies . |
| 4 | The driver and conductor made up for them by shouting and singing , and the little bus itself was extremely noisy as it rattled along the bumpy streets . |
| 5 | There is a sort of joy in persuading the English you are the right person for them by dancing like a stoned Russian . |
| 6 | As they moved from one to another , they collected meals of pollen and paid for them by becoming covered in excess pollen which they involuntarily delivered to the next flower they visited . |
| 7 | Do n't let us do the Tory 's work for them by tearing ourselves apart . |
| 8 | Naidoo reiterated that the NSC was expecting Sacu to come to a decision and could not ease it for them by offering guarantees of future tours . |
| 9 | Despite these kinds of market issues , Microsoft is unlikely to allow developers to add-value for them by tinkering with NT operating system code ‘ but it may have to change this model to win the high-end , ’ warns Schuster . |
| 10 | Suddenly , to his relief , Celia herself broke the constraint between them by remarking , ‘ I had an unexpected visitor yesterday . ’ |
| 11 | It will be suggested perhaps that , instead of simply feeling himself pulled between a thirst for new experience and a dread of losing his pension , a rational man would ponder conflicting principles , ‘ It is good to welcome new experience ’ and ‘ One ought not to risk one 's pension ’ , and judge between them by deducing from more general principles combined with verbally formulated facts about Bali and himself . |
| 12 | Even as she said it , she recognised what she was doing — attempting to put some distance between them by drawing in her daughter , as a shield . |
| 13 | The two Mabon brothers , 27-year-old Hamish and 23-year-old Hunter , the sons of the Scottishborn former President of the Swedish Union , scored ten tries between them by playing the traditional Swedish game — full of energy and aggression . |
| 14 | Foucault specifies the difference between them by contrasting their relation to the document : the historians of total history have been engaged above all in the interpretation of documents , attempting to reconstitute the past , to give it an inner meaning ( always available only to the historian ) , to recover a voice and allow it to speak . |
| 15 | In Pao On v. Lau Yiu A threatened that unless B agreed to vary an existing contract between them by giving A a guarantee against loss , A would not fulfil his side of the agreement . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The woman solved it for me by stopping and following Marcus out of the room . |
| 18 | Dentan , for example , describes the Semai concept of persusah — to make difficulty or unhappiness for someone by meddling in his affairs — and notes that the prescribed response to such interference is withdrawal or passivity ( 1968 : 63 ) . |
| 19 | We learn about ourselves by making mistakes , as well as through success ; we learn nothing by staying in a rut . |
| 20 | We get them from other people by communication ; and we get them for ourselves by thinking , or by observation , or both . |
| 21 | Provided a breastfeeding mother looks after herself by wearing a good supporting bra , no further damage should be done to her figure . |
| 22 | Look after yourself by eating a balanced and varied diet of protein , dairy products and fresh fruit and vegetables , getting enough rest and cutting out the things that can harm your baby . |
| 23 | ‘ As a new young photographer , he was being given a great opportunity and he could have spoilt things for himself by using me . ’ |
| 24 | He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape . |
| 25 | In arable districts most usable lad must already have been taken up , and with the commons jealously guarded by farmers to whom they were essential for keeping the animals on which cultivation depended , the landless man stood a better chance of carving a niche for himself by drifting to a less-developed , mainly pastoral terrain . |
| 26 | Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs . |
| 27 | On balance , Williams probably gained more than he lost from his attempt to bring — and keep — together the separate traditions of Marxism and British cultural criticism , though as Parrinder has shown in a sensitive discussion of Williams , he made needless difficulties for himself by abandoning the concept of literature . |
| 28 | What is important is that they should not draw our attention towards them by appearing in some way wrong , inappropriate or misconceived . |
| 29 | I do n't know why women like to taunt me , but they seem to grow fonder of me by doing so . |
| 30 | " Maybe , but they wo n't get rid of me by making me clasp hands with you . |