Example sentences of "[prep] them 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 | What is important is that they should not draw our attention towards them by appearing in some way wrong , inappropriate or misconceived . |
| 18 | Bingeing can be seen as a way of ‘ stuffing away ’ feelings and then getting rid of them by vomiting . |
| 19 | 4.8 Section 2(4) of the Law Reform ( Personal Injuries ) Act 1948 ( see Appendix C ) provides that in an action for damages for personal injuries there shall be disregarded , in determining the reasonableness of any expenses , the possibility of avoiding those expenses or part of them by taking advantage of facilities available in the National Health Service . |
| 20 | In 1989 , 113 people died this way — nearly half of them by inhaling fumes from lighter refills . |
| 21 | The joint BPXM-Pemex team has set about the task ahead of them by cataloguing a mass of seismic , well and production data , much of it dating back to the 1930s . |
| 22 | Make the most of them by writing to Feedback , Guitarist , |
| 23 | More than half ( 61% ) of those who replied had learned of the Library 's exhibitions by seeing posters outside the Library , while other ( 24% and 20% respectively ) had learned of them by seeing advertisements , or by talking to friends . |
| 24 | that it 's barely worth their while to erm to employ try and get rid of them by doing that er which er which means that there should n't be redistribution of land that much and therefore |
| 25 | But for me there were still many problems to be overcome , and — to cut a long story short — I solved most of them by becoming a partner in a small company which we named Island Holidays . |
| 26 | She would n't embarrass either of them by making a scene . |
| 27 | At a general stage of the procedure we will have a list of efficient tableaux and ‘ process ’ one of them by examining the non-basic variables in turn . |
| 28 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 29 | Resisting the urge to rout the pair of them by denying in Italian as fluent as theirs that she was any such thing , Luce kept her face impassive until the other woman had disappeared the way she 'd come . |
| 30 | You can find out more about these buildings and others like them by contacting Helen Hossack on Belfast 660809 . |