Example sentences of "[to-vb] with [pers pn] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 2 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 3 | She had managed to cope with it by listening to the radio , playing tapes , even turning on breakfast television until its unremitting triviality had threatened to drive her even madder than she had felt herself going already . |
| 4 | Security is an overall office function , and the Computing Sub-Group , in its earlier discussions on security , has preferred to deal with it by ensuring that offices are kept as secure as possible , rather than by guarding individual pieces of hardware . |
| 5 | ‘ They were pretty threatening but we tried to reason with them by offering free meals to children . |