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[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> It depends.  If it's the burglar's pet flying mammal who turned on him and
> took a chunk out of his hide (I assume it's a him; statistics show that
> over 75% of all burglars with pet bats are male), the "by" seems like a
> more natural preposition.
>

A reasonable analysis!


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-Wilson
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