Example sentences of "[adj] by [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would qualify this by suggesting that you ask yourself if you could bear to be knitting the same garment twenty years hence . |
| 2 | This guy just said , ‘ I can bring it here first thing in the morning in a carrier bag , and do n't be clever by saying that you do n't want it . ’ |
| 3 | She did n't give one jot about him , kiss or no kiss , and she was going to make that perfectly plain by ensuring that she did n't react to him at all . |
| 4 | He was so embarrassed , and she could n't make the sting of it even worse by refusing when he suggested dining at the resort restaurant instead . |
| 5 | If you do n't like it , the cost is too high for its usefulness or for any other reason whatsoever , you need only scrub the disk clean by reformatting and what have you lost ? |