Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would involve identifying those who could satisfy criteria or competence and reliability , and encouraging them by removing some of the administrative restrictions now applying . |
| 2 | Another shows the converse , a humanoid god standing between two daemons : he is mastering them by grasping their tongues . |
| 3 | These analytic shortfalls happen because , although associative initiatives address the ambiguities of subjective meanings , they often end up resolving them by referring to a concept of a unified subject . |
| 4 | The House had passed legislation in 1989 ( effective from January 1991 ) to prohibit the receipt of honoraria by its members , but compensating them by raising their salaries . |
| 5 | ‘ Exploiting customers by levying higher charges than we could justify on grounds of cost or , worse , cheating them by using clandestine methods to raise interest rates on borrowing for reasons other than perceived risk would be the surest way to lose customers in what is , these days , a very competitive industry . |
| 6 | For example , if we have raised our body temperature by exercise or effort then cooling ourselves by taking a cold shower , a swim , or a cold drink makes us more comfortable . |
| 7 | ‘ It might take a letter a week to get to Germany , might n't it ? ’ said Mrs Fanshawe , taking her rings off and amusing herself by making them flash in the sunlight right into Nurse Rose 's eyes . |
| 8 | She knew that John truly believed that he was protecting her by keeping their love secret , but she was becoming frustrated and annoyed about the situation . |
| 9 | You , you , you may come across er legislature like this but you , you would n't be sure , when you they 're justifying it by saying that this is natural , this is a progression in er a historical progression and that in fact that it 's a erm it 's only because the , the landlords were , were sort of evil and nasty to us that , that i it , that they , this is happening . |
| 10 | The option of settling a dispute rather than resolving it by going to trial can be described as a form of alternative dispute resolution , meaning methods of resolving a variety of disputes in ways alternative to court hearings . |
| 11 | She breaks through it by using her head like a pneumatic drill , pressing her hard sharp jaws on to the soil and vibrating it by trembling her wing muscles . |
| 12 | While this is true , there are ways of minimising the problem , and eliminating it by altering the balance of the combustion in the diesel for the first , and by putting a particulate trap into the exhaust pipe for the second . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , both Franca and Alison had , after initial suspicion , adopted Irina , at least as far as amusing themselves by helping her to spend money on having her hair done and buying clothes . |
| 14 | In the immediate context of The Possessed Kirillov delights even while he is dismaying us by pushing theory — the novel 's Paper Person motif , that is — to the very limit , the born gambler 's limit . |
| 15 | Rune , having obeyed her command , was sitting motionless , contenting himself by regarding her steadily through half-closed eyes . |
| 16 | We are conscious of what Zuckerman does for Roth : when he helps a man to gather his spilt heart pills , it is Roth helping himself by assigning a small mercy . |
| 17 | The only thing you can say , you know , do you mind if I ask you , sh it 's bugging me by working these long hours will I be getting any more money ? |
| 18 | • Offering midweek packages at competitive rates • Creating an autumn-winter weekend break package and Christmas programme , and promoting them by sending a mailshot to all past guests . |
| 19 | As well as blinding me by stealing the screen , what did they want me to know ? ’ |
| 20 | They rejoice that their pews are full , without facing the sobering fact that they are only filling them by emptying someone else 's . |
| 21 | She was perfectly genuine in her feelings but expressing them by playing a role — I think maybe Bette Davis nobly renouncing a married lover . |
| 22 | Adults take great delight in frightening them by invoking unexperienced horrors , such as being confronted by a Malay or a tiger . |
| 23 | ‘ But the thrust of our approach is to start at home , focusing on one thing at a time rather than confusing ourselves by trying to do everything at once — which is a major reason why 85 per cent of organisations trying to do something in this area fail to get it right . |
| 24 | Allegedly unhappy about the sanitation and the cockroaches but by his own admission surprising himself by pining for ‘ Kensington , Belgravia , phone boxes and iron railings ’ , Lawrence returned to Blighty and spent an extended sojourn in Windsor , where he assembled Denim around him . |
| 25 | He could n't stop torturing himself by examining the room 's new look from every angle . |
| 26 | He is intrinsically proud : this reveals itself through his habit of defining himself by telling you his achievements . |
| 27 | It is strange how so many of Palin 's characters , from Pythons ' Mr Gumby through to the stuttering animal-loving crook in Cleese 's A Fish Called Wanda , seemed to be based on his father , almost as if he was persecuting himself by playing infinite versions of the man . |
| 28 | He played with her , letting his grasp slip so that she almost toppled backwards , then saving her by pulling her roughly back into his body . |
| 29 | He also takes credit for setting John Major on the road to replacing her by making him No 2 at the Treasury . |
| 30 | Thus when there was demand for training youth in drama the holder of the purse , the government , turned for advice not to educationalists , not to speech and drama experts ( although there was some overlap here ) , but to a small group of charismatic figures who for decades had been promoting community drama of one sort or another , promoting it by giving advice , by running courses , by setting up drama libraries of play-texts , by making links with professional theatre , by popularising competitive festivals . |