Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] by [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I venture to write and enquire if you would oblige me by calling at this Officer , at some time convenient to yourself : I am not at liberty to offer any further information at this juncture , but I think I may say that our meeting will be to your advantage . |
| 2 | Mime ( in Les Misérables ) , a big leading role ( Professor Higgins ) , a virtuoso turn ( as an American businessman in Youth At The Helm , he had impressed everyone by talking into five telephones at once — everybody in Taibach talked about it : Cis heard accounts ‘ up and down the street ’ ) , work on the radio and , above all , those scrupulous sessions in Ma Smith 's front room and on the high hills , schoolteacher and pupil , two sons of miners in Wales , striving to speak the language of Shakespeare faultlessly . |
| 3 | These analytic shortfalls happen because , although associative initiatives address the ambiguities of subjective meanings , they often end up resolving them by referring to a concept of a unified subject . |
| 4 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 5 | Ravana captured Hanuman and set fire to his tail , but the monkey avenged himself by growing to the size of a giant and setting fire to the city . |
| 6 | Clint defends herself by going on the attack . |
| 7 | She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so . |
| 8 | He wooed her by sharing with her a delicious baobab fruit . |
| 9 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 10 | Oh , he had told lies and they had trapped him by asking for the names of other English agents in Paris . |
| 11 | Then ice the whole thing and decorate it by drawing on doors and windows . |
| 12 | They argue , somewhat surprisingly , that it is a mistake to meet it by trying to ‘ upgrade the imagined simulation in hopes of finally winning Searle 's concession that at last its states have achieved intrinsic intentionality ’ . |
| 13 | The option of settling a dispute rather than resolving it by going to trial can be described as a form of alternative dispute resolution , meaning methods of resolving a variety of disputes in ways alternative to court hearings . |
| 14 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 15 | I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jamila . |
| 16 | ‘ We are hoping that our two new friends will assist us by acting as emissaries to the Court , ’ said Goibniu and , turning his head , smiled at Floy . |
| 17 | Like most Birkbeck students , he was obliged to support himself by working at a job of some kind . |
| 18 | If someone is hell-bent on controlling you through criticism you stop them by agreeing with what they say ( 'Yes , you 're quite right about the report' ) and then remaining quiet . |
| 19 | Three or four of these youngsters will approach the elderly person , try and confuse them by speaking to them about something completely irrelevant , and just er disappear during which time of course er valuables have been taken from these people . |
| 20 | Allegedly unhappy about the sanitation and the cockroaches but by his own admission surprising himself by pining for ‘ Kensington , Belgravia , phone boxes and iron railings ’ , Lawrence returned to Blighty and spent an extended sojourn in Windsor , where he assembled Denim around him . |
| 21 | The system funds itself by operating on the Royal Bank of Canada 's over-the-counter exchange rates which are not as fine as those obtained by the institution itself . |
| 22 | The porcupine fish ( opposite , top ) inflates itself by gulping in water ( or air if it has been removed from the sea ) until its body is so puffed up that its spiny scales stand out rigidly from its body and defy any killer to devour it . |
| 23 | A change of appearance was like hanging a net over a mirror , she had the same eyes but consoled herself by looking at herself differently . |
| 24 | We might do it amongst our family , we can do it er by you know helping within the family , you can do it by helping in the community , all sorts of different ways . |
| 25 | But I might do it by talking to them rather than by writing to them . |
| 26 | The terrible times had rendered individuals impotent ; many Jews consoled themselves by clinging to any available straw and concealed themselves behind bastions of casuistry . |
| 27 | The journey , by either route , is at least twelve thousand miles and the birds fly non-stop , sustaining themselves by diving into the sea for fish as they go . |
| 28 | Having given up hope of a career , they have doubts about the future and support themselves by working in ‘ low pay , low prestige , low benefit jobs in the service industry ’ or ‘ McJobs ’ . |
| 29 | It inwardly destroys itself by concentrating on efficiency and on building a convenient systematic way of life which largely ignores the humans it caters for . |
| 30 | What they 're actually asking for is that whether we would be able to help them by arranging for a loan on their behalf , they would service the debt at this time , so I might suggest chairman that we revert it to the finance committee for |