Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a female is ready to spawn she will leave her cave ( in which she will have previously have spent a lot of time ) and approach the male , who will display to her by quivering his body slightly and beating his tail in front of her , so that she is buffeted by the current created . |
| 2 | The courts will normally refuse to allow claims of confidentiality in respect of the names and addresses of employees so as to prevent offers of other employment being made to them by departing staff ( see Baker v Gibbons [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 693 and Searle ( GD ) & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [ 1982 ] FSR 92 ) . |
| 3 | Mrs Lee , 43 , formerly the secretary of the club at the Golden Lion Hotel , Barnard Castle , began taking the cash entrusted to her by paying for a telephone bill . |
| 4 | She listened in silence while the girl , who insisted on being called Claire because , she explained , people viewed her profession with enough scepticism without her adding to it by adopting some theatrical and phoney title , informed her that she had managed to prepare her birth chart . |
| 5 | Living artists would keep adding to it by making contributions from their works . |
| 6 | A ROMANIAN baby is to help repay the kindness shown to him by raising money for other children in need . |
| 7 | I 'm sure she wants you to extend the same warmth to her that you extend to me by using my first name . ’ |
| 8 | This is involuntary and undesirable and many firms will react to it by reducing output and laying off workers . |
| 9 | Whether she responds to it by producing special kinds of eggs destined to be soldiers or whether the workers treat the existing larvae in a special way is not certain . |
| 10 | Each of the six main sections of the programme starts with a brief analysis of the situation , and then responds to it by proposing a series of study processes . |
| 11 | If you have previously run BBCBASIC(Z80) , you can return to it by using the cursor keys to select BASIC from the list of suspended activities in the index . |
| 12 | First , it distanced the riots from the social , economic , political , and other grievances which had been linked to them by locating the cause outside the ‘ social problems ’ of inner-city dwellers and in the ‘ simple greed ’ of the drug barons to accumulate ‘ loot ’ . |
| 13 | I happen to like at least some pictures by Mondrian : you may respond to them by asking why anyone should get paid for drawing coloured squares . |
| 14 | In recent years the discount houses have not only borrowed from banks , but also lent to them by purchasing certificates of deposit . |
| 15 | The Editor is grateful for the help that was given to him by catering personnel at MOD Stanmore who supplied the photographs and RAF Uxbridge . |
| 16 | The same sentiment appears in Lagunas Nitrate Company v Lagunas Syndicate , where it is suggested , somewhat eccentrically , that effect might be given to it by allowing the directors to plead the defence of volenti non fit iniuria . |
| 17 | It was held that the agreement was void and that effect could not be given to it by rejecting the general restraint which appeared in it and limiting the agreement for the purposes of the action to carrying on the business of a tailor . |
| 18 | Here , an anonymous Company shrink checking out the efficiency of Spiderglass Southern , he was going to see the woman he 'd enslaved to him by playing God in her mind . |
| 19 | She sighed heavily as she realised that either she had to confess or , much worse , she was going to have to continue to lie to them by inventing , when asked , things which she and Cara had done together while touring Czechoslovakia . |
| 20 | However , it would almost always be undesirable behaviour in any practical system ; presumably people reacted to it by saying ‘ something has gone wrong ’ and making adjustments to get rid of it . |
| 21 | To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high nettles and clumps of bramble . |
| 22 | So we can get to it by going up this way . |
| 23 | So when the male of such a species approaches a female hanging , large and menacing , on her web , or lurking hidden beside it , he signals to her by twanging the threads at one side in a special and meaningful way which he trusts the female will recognise . |
| 24 | ‘ And if they think that , then it makes sense to assume they 're trying to get to me by hurting you . ’ |
| 25 | He decided not to pander to it by asking for the admirers name . |
| 26 | These Class A applications would be dealt with by officials acting under powers delegated to them by planning committees ( or , if this was unacceptable , by small subcommittees of two or three members ) . |