Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to kill her by pumping exhaust fumes into the vehicle while they were both inside , Mr Charles Kellett , prosecuting , said . |
| 2 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 3 | Later , I tried to mollify her by pointing out that the teacher had said what a nice boy he was . |
| 4 | They tried to attract me by offering tempting morsels — one offered me a Rolls-Royce with a personalised number plate — but my loyalties belonged to John . |
| 5 | I had a husband who was pretending that I did not have cancer , and a mother who tried to inspire me by showing me pictures of Page Three girls under banner headlines of ‘ How I conquered cancer ’ . |
| 6 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 7 | Earlier , it was alleged that Casabona kidnapped the 15-year-old , raped her and tried to murder her by pumping exhaust fumes into the vehicle while they were both inside . |
| 8 | The Palestinians were peeved when the Americans , spotting an impasse , tried to bridge it by coming up with a compromise . |
| 9 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 10 | My father tried to stop her by standing in her way , so she ran him over and broke his leg quite badly , on the path before the bridge . |
| 11 | Men tried to burn the distaffs while the women tried to stop them by throwing buckets of water . |
| 12 | ‘ The three are married together , ’ he said , and then tried to prove it by citing the events of a previous day . |
| 13 | They tried to intimidate me by holding on to the furniture . |
| 14 | Sadly , when he went into one of his depressions , he sometimes seemed to punish us by deciding that he would n't go on any more — he 'd stop eating and that would be that . |
| 15 | In Acme Transport v Betts [ 1981 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 131 , at p134 , Cumming Bruce LJ said that the Court of Appeal " were indebted to the judgment and tact of Counsel in that neither of them sought to confine us by referring to authority on the meaning of other exemption clauses in other contexts " . |
| 16 | That was as far as the conversation went , for I decided to end it by pushing open the screen door . |
| 17 | However , its brain was minuscule and Hercules managed to trap it by pretending to be an army and getting the animal confused and tangled in foliage . |
| 18 | He managed to rout them by tearing his clothes off and setting them to sail down a river , then blocking the river with a mighty boulder . |
| 19 | Now Craganour had gone half a length up , but Aboyeur fought back as Piper sought to straighten him by taking his whip in his left hand and applying it liberally . |
| 20 | Reynolds sought to unite them by avoiding unnecessary controversy . |
| 21 | And I went up and down the road and miles away then came back and I could n't stop because this bike was very old fashioned and you had to stop it by pedalling back |
| 22 | We had to placate them by appearing in what they thought was acceptable guise . |
| 23 | John Bader of Guernsey , who made a profit out of selling roses to Labour and then sought to safeguard it by voting Tory . |
| 24 | In 1973 Tarasia and Mishra reported on a 10 year old boy who caught a fish in a pond and attempted to kill it by biting ; unfortunately the fish slipped inside his mouth . |
| 25 | President Venkataraman then attempted to replace him by transferring Surjit Singh Barnala , the Governor of Tamil Nadu , who had himself incurred the central government 's displeasure in late January when he refused formally to recommend the imposition of president 's rule . |
| 26 | They wanted to surprise him by jumping out and saying ‘ Happy birthday ! ’ after he 'd seen the presents . |