Example sentences of "by [v-ing] what [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would work on the client by suggesting what he wanted to hear and the client would be entranced . |
| 2 | Rose points to a developmental model of the growth of government which suggests that governments usually begin by adopting what he terms defining functions ' . |
| 3 | We have made our policies absolutely clear , not just by asserting that we have it in mind to take action , but by stating what we have planned and by making announcements for new equipment and new forces . |
| 4 | Smashing Pumpkins have become one of the most fêted recent faces on the Amer-indie scene simply by doing what they want to do . |
| 5 | A similar switch-over type of story can be written by doing what I have counselled writers of full-length detective stories not to do : by slipping in a tiny clue in the hope that readers will miss it . |
| 6 | One said : ‘ By saying what she has said , one can only draw the conclusion that she turned to the Queen and the Duke because her marriage is in trouble and she is desperately unhappy . |
| 7 | Perhaps these kinds of questions are best answered by knowing what we want to analyse . |
| 8 | Anyone who handled the King 's money was ‘ charged ’ with the revenues he had received or collected and had to acquit himself before the Barons of the Exchequer by showing what he had done with it . |
| 9 | ‘ So I started by reviewing what they did have . |
| 10 | Perhaps I may conclude by repeating what I have written elsewhere : |