Example sentences of "for [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Osbern returned to Canterbury , not to make peace by abandoning his efforts to get recognition for the despised saints , but to gain recognition for them by writing their biographies . |
| 2 | The driver and conductor made up for them by shouting and singing , and the little bus itself was extremely noisy as it rattled along the bumpy streets . |
| 3 | There is a sort of joy in persuading the English you are the right person for them by dancing like a stoned Russian . |
| 4 | As they moved from one to another , they collected meals of pollen and paid for them by becoming covered in excess pollen which they involuntarily delivered to the next flower they visited . |
| 5 | Do n't let us do the Tory 's work for them by tearing ourselves apart . |
| 6 | Naidoo reiterated that the NSC was expecting Sacu to come to a decision and could not ease it for them by offering guarantees of future tours . |
| 7 | Despite these kinds of market issues , Microsoft is unlikely to allow developers to add-value for them by tinkering with NT operating system code ‘ but it may have to change this model to win the high-end , ’ warns Schuster . |
| 8 | The woman solved it for me by stopping and following Marcus out of the room . |
| 9 | Dentan , for example , describes the Semai concept of persusah — to make difficulty or unhappiness for someone by meddling in his affairs — and notes that the prescribed response to such interference is withdrawal or passivity ( 1968 : 63 ) . |
| 10 | We get them from other people by communication ; and we get them for ourselves by thinking , or by observation , or both . |
| 11 | ‘ As a new young photographer , he was being given a great opportunity and he could have spoilt things for himself by using me . ’ |
| 12 | He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape . |
| 13 | In arable districts most usable lad must already have been taken up , and with the commons jealously guarded by farmers to whom they were essential for keeping the animals on which cultivation depended , the landless man stood a better chance of carving a niche for himself by drifting to a less-developed , mainly pastoral terrain . |
| 14 | Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs . |
| 15 | On balance , Williams probably gained more than he lost from his attempt to bring — and keep — together the separate traditions of Marxism and British cultural criticism , though as Parrinder has shown in a sensitive discussion of Williams , he made needless difficulties for himself by abandoning the concept of literature . |
| 16 | Rather than tensing up and pulling with all your arm strength , simply use your weight to do the work for you by leaning on your arms with a straight back . |
| 17 | It 's one that we can perhaps put a bit of pressure on if we issue an application for you by getting ACAS involved and seeing whether ACAS can either get you back there or er get you a compensation off them . |
| 18 | Your teachers will be able to ask Compact employers to help them develop an interesting curriculum for you by planning work jointly and inviting " adults other than teachers " to talk to you and work with you in the classroom . |
| 19 | A book length layout is best handled as a multi-chapter document but Ventura will manage this for you by auto-numbering pages , figures and tables and by building a table of contents and an index automatically . |
| 20 | But the Lord has made it easier for you by giving us the lesson taught so simply and sublimely by our parents — the joy of love , that is of understanding and being understood , of giving and receiving , of sacrificing oneself to be recreated , of pouring out the treasures of one 's own heart only to find them multiplied endlessly . |
| 21 | You and your husband are certainly doing your share for today 's ‘ concerns ’ so let us do something for you by making yours the Star Letter this month . |
| 22 | So let us settle them for you by Standing Order or Direct Debit . |
| 23 | According to Lovins , ‘ the equipment more than pays for itself by costing less to maintain ’ . |
| 24 | It should quickly pay for itself by saving computational time , increasing accuracy and reducing parts costs by minimising expenditure on E48 or E96 parts where cheaper E24 values will do . |
| 25 | Investment in an agency , branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business . |
| 26 | Under this system of economic production , even though a merchant class was able to find a niche for itself by providing loans and commodities for kings , princes and noble landowners , this class was largely excluded from control over the state , which was dominated by increasingly absolutist kings and their royal entourage of lords and nobles . |
| 27 | Greenpeace , the environmental pressure group which had already made a name for itself by chasing whalers on the high seas , sent its own vessel , the Rainbow Warrior , to shadow the nuclear ship out into the Atlantic . |
| 28 | Similarly , a company is only making problems for itself by creating a norm of people working extra hours , putting staff under stress which impacts on their home lives and which probably does not achieve greater productivity since it is commonly believed that working beyond 40 to 50 hours a weeks results in time spent which is increasingly unproductive . |
| 29 | Now you know this , do n't start applying it rigorously as a rule which will inhibit your sailing , merely let the body work it out for itself by noticing the levelness of the horizon . |
| 30 | So parents actually welcomed the possibility of a large family : an extra pair of hands could soon pay for itself by working in the fields as well as ensuring security for the parents ' old age . |