Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than selecting the particular class of political events as the stuff of history , and then seeking to explain it by appealing to the play of national and personal interest , the Annales school advocates eclectic research into such diverse topics as economics , populations , social institutions , technologies and climate , designed to contribute to a complete picture of social life . |
| 2 | We 're not going to get it by resurrecting the stadia that we 've got at the moment ; new ones have to be built , and if they 're going to be built in the high population areas , you know , then I think it 's realistic for the clubs in that particular area to share . |
| 3 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 4 | It 's going help us by knowing our targets … staff will work hard to meet them . |
| 5 | I 'm not going to please you by doing that . |
| 6 | I 'm not a good speaker so I 'm not going to bore you by making a long speech . |
| 7 | After nearly a decade down under he was overdue an entirely Australian subject — the Board of Control having disappointed him by refusing to let him write their official history : ‘ This is the one major cricket book still to be written in Australia . |
| 8 | Tears were building up behind her eyes , threatening to disgrace her by spilling down her cheeks . |
| 9 | By purporting to de-interpret them by removing the excrescences of later interpretations it made possible a reinterpretation which allowed mythology to be seen again as something that while still existing on the level of the most civilized and polished communication kept speaking of what it had sprung from — men 's basic needs and desires . |
| 10 | supplementing the teacher 's expertise with that of the group ( instead of the group and consultant trying to supplant it by showing they can handle things better ) |
| 11 | Some constables initially played up to the fact that their remarks would be appearing in print , hoping to identify themselves by saying something outrageous which was then suffixed by ‘ How about that for a quote for the book ? ’ |
| 12 | If Spunk had been hoping to rattle me by picking this place for a venue , then Spunk was out of luck . |
| 13 | We 're saying , we 're trying to help you by raising this money , erm it 's not sort of lecturing them or anything , we 're trying to focus on communities and empower them by giving them money for projects they want to happen , it 's not anything we 've decided . |
| 14 | Your cousin Henry has set off for Alma Ata in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan , hoping to finance himself by selling articles to The Spectator , where he has asked me to use my influence . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , breaking apart like a toppling chimneystack , its body collapsed and felled another , which threw up an arm as it went down , as if thinking to save itself by grabbing hold of one of its remaining upright companions . |
| 16 | An investigation by the Japanese Fisheries Agency concluded in an announcement by the Foreign Ministry that the dolphins had committed a " mass suicide " from which local fisherman had been trying to save them by driving them back into the sea . |