Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely you do n't actually believe all that stuff in the papers about how it was so much better in the old days , but then they got in a bunch of yuppies and ruined it all by going down-market and yoof-crazed , do you ? |
| 2 | Doing as she had bid herself , she walked into the cottage and then spoilt it all by slamming the door . |
| 3 | He sounded almost admiring , but then went and spoilt it all by adding , ‘ Although I suppose if you 've gone through life getting yourself into situations like this you would be bound to develop a fairly strong streak of subbornness by now . ’ |
| 4 | At the hotel Jane Postlethwaite made it worse by inviting them to tea on the following afternoon . |
| 5 | Dave talked right on and over the start of the lyric , and then made it worse by trying to pretend that his mistake was intentional . |
| 6 | It was Stok that made it dangerous by sending that cavalry patrol to pick them up . ’ |
| 7 | The dynamic Mike Marsh blasted a searing 30-yard drive past Nigel Martyn before McManaman made it three by capitalising on a slip by the Palace keeper . |
| 8 | Hick fittingly ended it all by racing in to run out Aqib , to leave Malik forlorn and a class apart , 84 not out , having steered his side to a lead of 98 , 50-odd short of what Waqar said last evening would be enough for Pakistan to defend successfully . |