Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pers pn] by [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had then sought to usurp him by demanding an EC inquiry into French 's affairs and by getting himself , though contrary to Rule as a non-sailor , elected as Delegate to the 1911 Annual General Meeting with a demand that he should be made Glasgow secretary in French 's place , only breaking away when he was not permitted to attend . |
| 2 | An attempt was made to accommodate them by founding a Marxist League , of Socialists and PVO . |
| 3 | Nevertheless it was used in the early aeroplanes and an attempt was made to protect it by binding the joints with varnished tape which was never very effectual . |
| 4 | Although it was difficult , in practice , to stop war from breaking out , serious attempts were made to control it by emphasising that only a war duly and properly declared by a soverign authority could be regarded as just . |
| 5 | Fearful of the consequences of higher tea prices , the government has sought to stabilise them by fiddling the weekly Calcutta auctions . |
| 6 | If we 're going to increase nursery provision , we 've got to do it by putting , putting money where our mouths are , huh , putting our money where perhaps some Conservative government peoples ' mouths are as well , and they 're all very keen to will the ends but they 're not so keen to will the means , anyway this is the means , there 's a million pounds here erm , next year we we effect , and other members can speak about that and the work that they first have erm , I do notice that , that the latest report from the erm commission on on education and the book we all had to read does give us this first priority , er provision in nursery education particularly in areas , er deprived areas . |
| 7 | ‘ But we have really had to earn it by improving the quality of our product . ’ |
| 8 | But while that social ease can work in his favour , he has had to temper it by becoming an earnest , moderate , church-going swot . |
| 9 | The good ‘ Rev. ’ attempted to pacify them by pointing out that the evening was a glorious opportunity to meet the players in an informal atmosphere , and to buy their heroes a drink . |
| 10 | If you decide to stock the pond with fish , frogs may only become a nuisance in the spring , as unattached male frogs can cling onto the fish , causing them distress and have even been known to suffocate them by clamping onto their gills . |
| 11 | To test the boy 's power of observation and memory , two or three herds from different homesteads are mixed , and the boy is asked to separate them by picking out all that belong to his herd . |
| 12 | He had unfortunately proceeded to mar them by fastening them to strips of card with paper clips , which had rusted and left their foul trail on the bookmarks . |
| 13 | The council had heard about impending publication late on Saturday night , too , he said , and had tried to stop it by taking out an interdict against the newspaper concerned . |
| 14 | Sean always had his wits about him and had tried to placate him by saying there was nothing they were doing at Rafferty 's Bar that would offend a brother , or would concern a policeman . |
| 15 | I 'd have liked to prolong it by asking you to supper , but … ’ |
| 16 | This could also have been done in the penultimate chord , but we have chosen to avoid it by using a bass ( E ) which is mildly dissonant with an upper note ( F ) . ) |