Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may cut the towelling into large squares , and then you can come and be my nurse — and God help you , McAllister , if you hinder me by starting to have fine lady 's vapours . |
| 2 | To make the most of fragrant flowers such as these sweetly scented golden and white freesias and white lilies , display them by massing the flowers closely together in side-by-side containers . |
| 3 | They warm them by pressing them against brood patches , areas of skin naked of feathers which a bird may develop specially for the breeding season or have permanently on its breast concealed by the long feathers growing around them . |
| 4 | Then ice the whole thing and decorate it by drawing on doors and windows . |
| 5 | So it 's use the red obviously the title and the red 's for your introduction to say what you 're going to say then say it by using your greens and then say what you 've said by going back to the red and coming back to your objective . |
| 6 | I solve it by pointing my eyes towards C , bringing my body into line with my eyes , and walking forwards . |
| 7 | They solve it by using some of their numbers as jars . |
| 8 | This is placed between two staves and moved to wherever you want it by using the cursor keys . |
| 9 | Animals that are venomous secrete toxic matter and inject it by biting or stinging or by some other means . |
| 10 | Woody shrubs too depend on winter snow for protection against extreme cold and wind abrasion , which shape them by killing exposed growing points . |
| 11 | Trick them by hiding the leaf you want in a bunch of something useless , or even poisonous . |
| 12 | If someone is hell-bent on controlling you through criticism you stop them by agreeing with what they say ( 'Yes , you 're quite right about the report' ) and then remaining quiet . |
| 13 | Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people . |
| 14 | Prevent them by showering frequently , and always wear cotton underwear and absorbs perspiration and allows skin to breathe . |
| 15 | Thank goodness for Iris , thought Melissa as she plodded wearily up to bed , for insisting that she cover herself by reporting Lou 's visit . |
| 16 | ‘ And you show it by putting in for a transfer behind my back , ’ he roared , his face as black as thunder . |
| 17 | 1 The trick of making eyes smoulder is to apply solid colour sparingly , then smudge and spread it by softening the edges . |
| 18 | If a design problem is the cause of the airlock , this procedure will have to be repeated every time , so it will be better to find the cause and remedy it by fitting bigger pipes or a bigger cistern ( or a second cistern alongside the first — see Chapter 3 ) , or by repositioning the pipes so that they have the correct fall . |
| 19 | The results are often appalling if we are not able to unload stress as we receive it by letting our feelings out . |
| 20 | The three novels chart an attempt to develop linguistic techniques which represent the current state of affairs and at the same time challenge it by enlisting subversive laughter as a tool to destabilize fixed systems and tear away their protective layers of discursive convention . |
| 21 | After about five seconds silent embarrassment like only that schoolkid knows , we both break it by saying , ‘ Sorry , ’ together . |
| 22 | Whenever you catch yourself speeding up in a car to get through a red light , deliberately penalize yourself by turning right at the next corner . |
| 23 | Having given up hope of a career , they have doubts about the future and support themselves by working in ‘ low pay , low prestige , low benefit jobs in the service industry ’ or ‘ McJobs ’ . |
| 24 | So , obstacles or other animals in the vicinity reveal themselves by distorting the fish 's electric field . |
| 25 | Please support us by providing bric-a-brac , clothes , unwanted but saleable articles , etc . |
| 26 | They usually deal with the situation in one of two ways — they patronise you and try to take control on the assumption that you must need their guidance to do a decent job ; or they undermine you by making obscene remarks and deliberately causing problems . |
| 27 | If I went in , he would insist on cutting my hair himself and embarrass me by telling those waiting that he could remember cutting my first curls . |
| 28 | She did not court disobedience or fuss them by calling . |
| 29 | We 're saying , we 're trying to help you by raising this money , erm it 's not sort of lecturing them or anything , we 're trying to focus on communities and empower them by giving them money for projects they want to happen , it 's not anything we 've decided . |
| 30 | He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below . |