Example sentences of "[vb past] by [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the most important thing should be that I 'm happy with my paintings , but I 'd by lying if I said I did n't care what other people said . |
| 2 | He opened by stating that he felt ‘ that a complete separation of crime from sin would not be good for the moral law and might be disastrous for the criminal ’ . |
| 3 | Last time I wrote for Contact I finished by saying that we hoped to go and see Miss Saigon . |
| 4 | We elected Peter as Chairman and he began by saying that we needed national appeals to raise money in all the richest countries . |
| 5 | Charles hedged by saying that he 'd never imagined the BEF would be at all like this . |
| 6 | And that illustrates what I meant by saying that you need quite complex systems . |
| 7 | Lorenz responded by saying that he did not hold the position they were attacking with such gusto . |
| 8 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |