Example sentences of "do [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I expressed my appreciation of the honour he had done me by inviting me to his coronation , he replied that as the eldest son of his trusted friend , to whom he owed so much , it was proper that I should be present . |
| 2 | The present government has done something by designating 40 per cent of the territory as country parkland where plants and animals are supposed to be protected . |
| 3 | He 'd done it by making her question herself , she realised . |
| 4 | He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support . |
| 5 | We might do it amongst our family , we can do it er by you know helping within the family , you can do it by helping in the community , all sorts of different ways . |
| 6 | If you can not do it by constructing the notion of pains which are not yours , you can not do it any other way . |
| 7 | You can do it by scrubbing the Navy . |
| 8 | It 's not really desperately important cos I can do it by using a list rather than a map but it 's just somehow easier to refer |
| 9 | And you can do it by taking one from t' other but more useful er , I would suggest , is to work out a planned performance or what I 've called a planned performance , er , this 'll be in your , in your notes as well , er which equals planned expenditure over planned er , income or allowance . |
| 10 | Now I know I could do it by getting a little deeper into things but can anyone think of a pure MS-DOS way of doing it ? |
| 11 | But I might do it by talking to them rather than by writing to them . |
| 12 | It seems if we agree to these new constituents coming through , we 'll only do it by having additional buildings which are utterly wasteful and quite honestly Mr Deputy Speaker , I think you 'll your constituents a very distressed indeed about the waste , the fraud and the mismanagement of the E C , of course Sir . |
| 13 | Its good reception encouraged Boyle to set pen to paper , publishing his results in June 1663 , at which time he observed , ‘ Nor is it only by dissection of various animals that the naturalist may promote the anatomist 's knowledge , but perhaps he may do it by devising ways to make the dead bodies of man and other animals keep longer than naturally they would do . ’ |
| 14 | Could you do it by adding up on paper ? |
| 15 | I do n't like doing intarsia knitting but I do like ‘ picture front ’ jumpers and decided that it was possible to do them by using the slip stitch Fair Isle method . |
| 16 | If you seriously wish to lose your weight then it is most sensible to do it by looking carefully at your diet and eating a good balance of carbohydrates and protein with a reduced fat content . |
| 17 | I appreciate that the number of cases in which the taker and driver away is not the driver who goes on to cause personal injury or damage will be comparatively few , but I ask my right hon. Friend whether it is necessary to make such a draconian change in the traditional principles of British law , or to do it by reversing the normal burden of proof . |
| 18 | Lewis drove and hooked stylishly for an hour when opportunity offered , before Cairns showed the close fieldsmen how to do it by taking a superb diving catch at gully . |
| 19 | Do you want me to do it by doing the graph or |
| 20 | If we 're going to increase nursery provision , we 've got to do it by putting , putting money where our mouths are , huh , putting our money where perhaps some Conservative government peoples ' mouths are as well , and they 're all very keen to will the ends but they 're not so keen to will the means , anyway this is the means , there 's a million pounds here erm , next year we we effect , and other members can speak about that and the work that they first have erm , I do notice that , that the latest report from the erm commission on on education and the book we all had to read does give us this first priority , er provision in nursery education particularly in areas , er deprived areas . |
| 21 | But some people try to trick children into doing something by giving them sweets or money . |
| 22 | Oh sorry so that 's that 's what it 's what it 's about so what we want to do then over these next two days is to develop the skills of design and delivery and will allow us to do that allow us to improve our performance despite the fact that we do have the nerves and by practice by doing it by putting yourself in the situation where you have to make a presentation and almost as one chap said one time sitting there actually with your sitting there remembering he said actually volunteer to make presentations to the other people there . |
| 23 | You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me . |
| 24 | The injury to her knee she did herself by falling against a tree in the dark . ’ |
| 25 | He did it by suggesting the nervous system as an intermediary . |
| 26 | They had won , as they will always have to , against the odds , but they did it by capitalising on their best players , by utilising every ounce of available experience and by trying as hard as they knew how . |
| 27 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 28 | You can see how Dorothy Sayers did it by having the victim being supposed to be actively painting when in fact he was dead , and it is by using some such piece of lateral thinking , making the victim provide the alibi in this instance , that the trick is probably most easily brought off . |
| 29 | He did it by counterposing the need for regard to the greater entity of the Conservative Party . |
| 30 | ‘ There was this one scene where Dustin first did it by coming on very strong as the scene opened and then gradually bringing things down until everything was just suggested by innuendo and gestures . |