Example sentences of "[conj] in [verb] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then again , Pontius Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus and thought that in doing so he had got rid of him . |
| 2 | What really matters is not how the horse won , but that he did win , and that in doing so he ended his racecourse career displaying that sparkling but short-lived turn of foot for which he will long be remembered . |
| 3 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 4 | The argument developed in this chapter is that teachers can ill afford to take this blinkered attitude towards LMS , even if in doing so they appear to be adopting a coping strategy that enables them to focus on those aspects of their work that they see as most important . |
| 5 | In the past China had been plundered by westerners eager to exploit large markets and in doing so they brought the nation to its knees . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that both education and health services improve the quality of labour and in doing so they assist economic growth . |
| 7 | And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international . |
| 8 | This results in the open field lines convecting polewards under the magnetic ‘ tension ’ force , and in doing so they accelerate the magnetosheath ions that flow along them and cross the magnetopause . |
| 9 | And in doing so we looked at er other routes than shown on that plan there in order to encourage traffic to use those options . |
| 10 | ‘ Ben and I protect Durance 's reputation and in doing so we protect our own interests . ’ |
| 11 | Thus we call a belief an illusion when a wish-fulfilment is a prominent factor in its motivation , and in doing so we disregard its relation to reality , just as the illusion itself sets no store by verification . |
| 12 | It shifts interaction between pupils away from casual social conversation in the direction of discussion about the task in hand , and in doing so it reduces the amount of time spent by the teacher on matters of routine . |
| 13 | And in doing so she had nearly lost her balance , and he was heaping coals of fire on her head by holding her up . |
| 14 | Together they cleared the table , and as they moved about the kitchen Lucy thought of her aunt , and in doing so she remembered something that caused her to turn to Silas . |
| 15 | And in doing so she has proved herself a mightier force than the Palace propaganda machine , which suggested that she might not attend because she was too old and frail to make the long journey to Crathie Church . |
| 16 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 17 | But in emphasising the role of the norm he is quite consciously diminishing the role of the state — at least as expressed in its legal apparatus — and in doing so he underplays its role in constructing attitudes to sexuality , through marriage laws , the regulation of deviance , the judiciary , the police , as well as , more generally , the education system , the welfare system , and so on . |
| 18 | The writer writes out of his own wounds and in doing so he enables his reader to experience emotional change , emotional growth , healing without having to suffer the same fate as his character . |
| 19 | Bakewell bred not only for meat but for as much tallow as possible and in doing so he improved the Longhorn but at the same time destroyed its future prospects . |
| 20 | Pontius Pilate , also he rejects the Lord Jesus and in doing so he hated himself for it . |
| 21 | I mean , what I 'm saying is that I 've come across many of dem who try to speak the Jamaican language , er , the Jamaican Patois , but how they speak it is totally different , becau' they 've got the English accent , and um , dey , becau' they 've got the English accent they try to speak the Jamaican local Patois the same way and in doin' so it sounds really terrible you know it sort of sounds you know it 's really funny . |
| 22 | But in doing so they raise further problems of their own . |
| 23 | The reason they do this is in order to link general criticisms of the capitalist economic system with a specific analysis of the poverty of the elderly , but in doing so they shift their point of reference . |
| 24 | Such bombs often smash into other bigger , stationary boulders at the base of the cone , shattering into smithereens , but in doing so they leave their own mark on the boulder . |
| 25 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 26 | Marx tries to get away from the idea of private property when discussing pre-capitalist social systems by using the phrase ‘ appropriation of nature ’ but in doing so he uses a word with the same root as ‘ property ’ . |
| 27 | Like both the Aristotelians and Gassendi , Locke talks of their ‘ natures ’ or ‘ essences ’ , but in doing so he makes a sharp distinction between ‘ real ’ and ‘ nominal ’ essence . |
| 28 | But in doing so he has conceived many a dangerous folly . |
| 29 | If it chooses war it may deem it necessary to attack Syria before the latter becomes more powerful , but in doing so it risks incurring unacceptably high casualties . |
| 30 | So he swallowed her small cries , but in the end it was not the safeguard she had sought , because in doing so he fed her the taste of himself once more and left a hunger in her which she sensed would last a long , long time , if not an eternity . |