Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bagman-fox , now on home ground , had delayed them by running up a long culvert . |
| 2 | That 's for the We actually calculated them by using the unit quantity |
| 3 | And , however bad their crimes against us were , they always justified them by saying ours were worse . |
| 4 | After you 'd totally devastated me by saying you did n't find me remotely attractive , I was left racking my brains to think of a way to change your mind . |
| 5 | Mime ( in Les Misérables ) , a big leading role ( Professor Higgins ) , a virtuoso turn ( as an American businessman in Youth At The Helm , he had impressed everyone by talking into five telephones at once — everybody in Taibach talked about it : Cis heard accounts ‘ up and down the street ’ ) , work on the radio and , above all , those scrupulous sessions in Ma Smith 's front room and on the high hills , schoolteacher and pupil , two sons of miners in Wales , striving to speak the language of Shakespeare faultlessly . |
| 6 | Ian Lang and Malcolm Rifkind have amazed everyone by surviving , but they have only marginally improved their party 's position , from nine to 11 seats . |
| 7 | She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so . |
| 8 | After nearly a decade down under he was overdue an entirely Australian subject — the Board of Control having disappointed him by refusing to let him write their official history : ‘ This is the one major cricket book still to be written in Australia . |
| 9 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 10 | Oh , he had told lies and they had trapped him by asking for the names of other English agents in Paris . |
| 11 | Poor Stephen — she should n't have teased him by exaggerating her friendship with Martin the way she had . |
| 12 | I could n't have spilt it by going whoop ! |
| 13 | MITI disciplined it by limiting its allocation of imported coking coal . |
| 14 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 15 | He tells the world that he was the sole survivor of the original wreck , and that he has sustained himself by eating berries , leaves and roots . |
| 16 | She did n't love her husband , or even have any great affection for him , but she was mindful of the predicament in which he had placed himself by marrying so far beneath him , and she was going to make certain he never had cause to be ashamed of her . |
| 17 | ‘ He is responsible for the sabotage on the Base and he has implicated himself by trying to escape , ’ Bishop said harshly . |
| 18 | The Gnostics could not believe that in Christ the eternal God could have polluted himself by taking flesh and enduring crucifixion ; in the first epistle of John this denial is directly combated . |
| 19 | When I expressed my appreciation of the honour he had done me by inviting me to his coronation , he replied that as the eldest son of his trusted friend , to whom he owed so much , it was proper that I should be present . |
| 20 | The present government has done something by designating 40 per cent of the territory as country parkland where plants and animals are supposed to be protected . |
| 21 | Matron had prepared herself by carrying a ‘ Scutari ’ lamp . |
| 22 | The last thing she wanted was to be a pawn between the two of them , and was n't that just what Rune had made her by drawing deliberate attention to himself on the stage before making an exhibition of both of them ? |
| 23 | Boesky claimed that he had put £40,000,000 into the Guinness share support scheme ; when Guinness shares subsequently slumped , he claimed that the company had compensated him by agreeing to invest $100,000,000 in his arbitrage investment fund . |
| 24 | He 'd done it by making her question herself , she realised . |
| 25 | He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support . |
| 26 | Could she have missed it by mistaking it for one of the panelled wardrobes ? |
| 27 | In the eighteenth century at least one French nobleman refused the offer of the St Petersburg embassy because of the warning example of others who had ruined themselves by accepting it . |
| 28 | Airport police confirmed Demeke had gone through security checks , dismissing reports that he had avoided them by transferring from an Oslo flight . |
| 29 | Once-stuffy AT&T has surprised everyone by displaying plenty of this . |
| 30 | Her mother had surprised everyone by dying just as they were recovering from her husband 's death . |