Example sentences of "[vb past] it 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 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 3 | Dad fixed it by removing all four wheels and with an effort we dragged it back into position . |
| 4 | Anxious to do things properly , however , Charles sought the best specialist advice which he could get ; he found it by consulting eminent jurists of the legal centres of Bologna , Montpellier , Orléans , and Toulouse . |
| 5 | Mapletoft , having knocked over the conversion , trumped it by banging over a 30-metre dropped goal off his weak foot to level at 20–20 . |
| 6 | In one way all this undoubtedly strengthened the papal role — people knew far more clearly what was now wanted — but on the other hand , it weakened it by narrowing the base of loyalty . |
| 7 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 8 | It took the hero a year to find the creature , taking him beyond the boundaries of the world , but he captured it by swimming across a river , and brought it back alive , as was his instruction . |
| 9 | Christmas came , and the German officers celebrated it by singing ‘ Heilige Nacht ’ and drinking heavily in the Casa Gandini , which they still occupied . |
| 10 | In his address opening the Council he expressed it by saying that the Council would be ‘ pastoral ’ rather than dogmatic , and talking about aggiornamento and rinnovimento — terms that harked back to his youth when both were slightly suspect . |
| 11 | We all learned about him in school , how he was attacked by a savage hound and killed it by knocking a hurley ball slam into its mouth . ’ |
| 12 | The British approach to social policy as developed in the nineteenth century both understood this distinction and exploited it by making the workhouse the only alternative to family care and then deliberately creating conditions in workhouses which were both undesirable in terms of physical conditions and also reinforced a sense of shame , so that any relative who could be considered available would feel obliged to offer support . |
| 13 | Beata Bishop in her book A Time to Heal , which describes her experience of cancer and how she ultimately cured it by using alternative healing methods , writes of her first experience of conventional surgery . |
| 14 | Finance was provided by the ITV companies as a ‘ subscription ’ , and the companies raised it by setting the advertising time on Channel 4 in their own regions . |
| 15 | She admired his courage in clouting the skinhead but he spoilt it by saying it had been instinctive and now he wished he had n't . |
| 16 | Mrs er has er actually said that we should be getting some more money and then she spoilt it by saying we should be using the money we have n't got more er better use it and er maybe knocking the traffic li er islands out will save us a problem cos we 'll get a few kids knocked down and we wo n't have to bother with em . |
| 17 | He sounded impressed , then spoilt it by lapsing back into the mocking tone of their earlier conversation . |
| 18 | They solved it by getting you to leave the bottom half of the Spectrum case attached to the PCB , hardly the neatest of ways around the problem . |
| 19 | Like Mr Kravchuk , Khmelnytsky won independence for Ukraine but then lost it by making a fatal alliance with Russia . |
| 20 | Although there was clear authority at that time for the proposition that a man could not be guilty of the rape of a woman who lived with him outside marriage , Hale himself curtailed it by stating that cohabitation was not a defence but merely some evidence of consent . |
| 21 | The diet was too severe and I broke it by having eggs and fish . |
| 22 | Of course she started it by walking into the boudoir . |
| 23 | Although Bush signed this measure on Aug. 18 , he effectively nullified it by refusing to declare the budget emergency required to permit additional spending . |
| 24 | The pillar box was mounted on a platform about 10ft above deck and you reached it by climbing up a ladder . |
| 25 | But when one track came dangerously close to being ‘ rompalong , knees-up , power-pop anthem ’ the band quickly sabotaged it by sticking ‘ a cheesy drum machine behind it and turning the last two minutes into a total sonic attack ’ — much to the tearful bewilderment of their paymasters , left-field Belgians Play It Again Sam . |
| 26 | He produced it by heating red mercuric oxide with a 12 inch diameter burning glass . |
| 27 | He produced it by burning at high temperatures finely pulverized lime with clay in certain proportions , and grinding the product . |
| 28 | It was said that he learned it by practicing shadowboxing to popular tunes that ran exactly three minutes on the gramophone . |
| 29 | It has not inherited this behaviour ; it has either worked it out for itself , or learned it by observing another chimpanzee . |
| 30 | Once quoted as saying ‘ I 'm everybody 's biggest fan ’ , she proved it by including numbers from Bette Midler , Elvis Presley and Status Quo in her repertoire . |