Example sentences of "[vb -s] them by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They remain hidden until it is threatened , when it displays them by turning itself upside-down . |
| 2 | He sacrifices four lambs at the base of the li ga , then takes two inside and kills them by slitting open the throat and the chest and cutting off one of the forelegs at the shoulder , so the heart can be taken out , still pumping , and offered to the god on a plate on the dhāmi 's raised seat . |
| 3 | Mr Menem woos them by saying that both money wages and public-sector employment should rise . |
| 4 | Mira 's only possible recourse is to a parodic ventriloquy of male modes of communication which subtly undermines them by using word play to expose the ‘ fictions ’ that underpin supposedly objective information and ‘ expert ’ analyses from Herodotus 's time to the present . |
| 5 | Britain recaptures them by sending a large naval task force . |
| 6 | He flatters them by calling them , ‘ Good friends , sweet friends , ’ and , ‘ Romans and countrymen . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a whole a complete , and so it it emotionally prepares with the headlines , tell them what you 're gon na tell them then you tell them it and then it satisfies them by coming back to where you started . |
| 8 | One collects them by climbing the tree or by poking them with a long stick . |
| 9 | The female releases them by reaching forward with her hind leg , inserting her longest toe into the sac entrance and pulling it so that it enlarges and her young are able to clamber out . |
| 10 | Scaevola disappoints them by informing them that they are not freed of liability . |