Example sentences of "[vb pp] it by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't have spilt it by going whoop ! |
| 2 | MITI disciplined it by limiting its allocation of imported coking coal . |
| 3 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 4 | He 'd done it by making her question herself , she realised . |
| 5 | He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support . |
| 6 | Could she have missed it by mistaking it for one of the panelled wardrobes ? |
| 7 | Gamely , but a bit limply , Dr Clark claimed they had only got it by getting Mr Gummer ‘ dragged to the House ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ We halved the time by doing the processing on board the vessel , and then further halved it by using a limited part of the data set — 12-fold as opposed to 30-fold — which was perfectly adequate for the purpose , ’ says Nunn . |
| 9 | They described their prosperous neighbours on the Soviet as ‘ very wise and understanding ’ , not only because they had proved it by accumulating a little property , but above all because they were pismennye , or literate . |
| 10 | Then he had spoilt it by saying that his reasons for leaving Australia had been personal , and she had assumed he had been involved in a similar situation to that with Jennifer . |
| 11 | So you 've activated the channel but you 've activated it by increasing the frequency with which it resides in its open state , compared a to its closed state . |
| 12 | This huge increase caused concern among many deputies , but Pavlov had justified it by saying that it took account of forthcoming wholesale price rises and would actually represent a fall in real terms . |
| 13 | In the ceremony I smeared the metal , rubber and plastic of the new device with earwax , snot , blood , urine , belly-button fluff and toenail cheese , christened it by firing the empty sling at a wingless wasp crawling on the face of the Factory , and also fired it at my bared foot , raising a bruise . |
| 14 | I do not want to go on a dictionary-chasing exercise , laying down one word only to find that the marketing men have circumvented it by finding another word . |
| 15 | Instead of preventing proliferation , it has promoted it by allowing nations to protest innocence while violating the treaty 's inadequate provisions . |
| 16 | His hypothesis explains very nicely why we found the three groups , and he has confirmed it by showing that the preferred axes change with position in the visual field in the manner expected . |
| 17 | It is difficult to understand why the judges selected his design for second prize , as the assessors had rejected it by saying that it was ‘ Too expensive and involving too great a sacrifice of property ’ , and were supported by Brunel and Burn . |
| 18 | He reflected gloomily on the price of his ambition , because he had gone out on a limb to persuade a mistrustful and increasingly hostile Kenamun to consent to the operation he had mounted , and then he had only achieved it by linking Surere to the serial killings . |
| 19 | An effective way of dealing with this situation is to make the dog lie down , having first scruffed it by shaking its neck . |
| 20 | Is it been a cold call and you 've qualified it by getting an advertisement out there or is it qualified by actually getting the money in your hand . |
| 21 | That if she 'd triggered it by asking questions she might be drowned in the flood of pain that would be released ? |