Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transformed by cunning makeup and a virtuoso display of technical and emotional acting skill , her portrait of a frail but flinty island woman achieved its power by suggesting more than it said . |
| 2 | You 've had more than enough time to tell me , and by keeping quiet since we met again you 've been effectively lying . ’ |
| 3 | Dawn astonished doctors by becoming pregnant as she waited for a hysterectomy after being told she would never have a child . |
| 4 | Allison would respond by becoming moody and it soured many of the sessions . |
| 5 | The patterns you can make on your machine depend upon your first learning what the machine will do automatically and then experimenting by adapting all that you have absorbed into your own designs . |
| 6 | The paradox of diversion is that whenever we want to divert something it proves very hard to do so ; but when we do not want to create a diversion we very often end up by diverting more than we wanted . |