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By their hands versus With their hands



 
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By their hands versus With their hands #1 (permalink) Fri Aug 11, 2006 13:03 pm   By their hands versus With their hands		  
Hi All,

I heard recently on TV the sentence:

People digging by their bare hands.

Why not with their bare hands?
Attila
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By their hands versus With their hands #2 (permalink) Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:47 am   By their hands versus With their hands		  
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If it were written, it would be with. I presume that the speaker is rushed or stressed, and s/he would then be liable to say all sorts of not-so-grammatical things.
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