Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pers pn] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a female is ready to spawn she will leave her cave ( in which she will have previously have spent a lot of time ) and approach the male , who will display to her by quivering his body slightly and beating his tail in front of her , so that she is buffeted by the current created . |
| 2 | Nothing , if the injury persisted , but whatever a man 's mates might collect for him by passing round a hat . |
| 3 | This is involuntary and undesirable and many firms will react to it by reducing output and laying off workers . |
| 4 | If you have previously run BBCBASIC(Z80) , you can return to it by using the cursor keys to select BASIC from the list of suspended activities in the index . |
| 5 | I happen to like at least some pictures by Mondrian : you may respond to them by asking why anyone should get paid for drawing coloured squares . |
| 6 | And , if we can understand and thus make use of Adorno only by historicizing him , we can go beyond him by historicizing his historicism , which reacted to the shocks of Fascism , the demoralization of the Left and the rapid consolidation of administrative capitalism by assuming that past popular cultural traditions had been not merely damaged but shattered , and which asserted a single progressive cultural trajectory , developing from radical bourgeois art ( Beethoven 's , for example ) through to modernism . |
| 7 | It may be that meaning is only a complication and that social science can allow for it by regarding human affairs as simply more complex than the other workings of nature . |
| 8 | Once you have decided on your core force you can elaborate upon it by adding more troops , war machines , and monsters . |
| 9 | To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high nettles and clumps of bramble . |
| 10 | So we can get to it by going up this way . |
| 11 | If , if , if I could summarize , if you could bear with me by saying that , there is no embracing legislation which covers fire safety , and there is no legislation which actually prioritizes it . |