Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They remain hidden until it is threatened , when it displays them by turning itself upside-down . |
| 2 | She exacerbates all his old anxieties and feelings of ambivalence towards ‘ mothers ’ , and because he can not cope , he defends himself by ignoring her as far as possible . |
| 3 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 4 | The thorny devil ( above ) relies simply on its immensely sharp and powerful spikes for protection , while the bearded lizard ( left ) defends itself by erecting its spiny throat skin . |
| 5 | Clint defends herself by going on the attack . |
| 6 | When one player meets another he challenges him by saying , ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 7 | He sacrifices four lambs at the base of the li ga , then takes two inside and kills them by slitting open the throat and the chest and cutting off one of the forelegs at the shoulder , so the heart can be taken out , still pumping , and offered to the god on a plate on the dhāmi 's raised seat . |
| 8 | Recruitment to its ranks is highly selective in terms of social and educational status , and it perpetuates itself by spending parts of its accumulated surpluses on privileged education , often abroad , for its favoured sons ( and occasionally daughters ) . |
| 9 | The system funds itself by operating on the Royal Bank of Canada 's over-the-counter exchange rates which are not as fine as those obtained by the institution itself . |
| 10 | The porcupine fish ( opposite , top ) inflates itself by gulping in water ( or air if it has been removed from the sea ) until its body is so puffed up that its spiny scales stand out rigidly from its body and defy any killer to devour it . |
| 11 | An elegant example of this is La Bourgoise d'Orliens , " The townswoman of Orléans " , in which the husband , a merchant , suspecting his wife of having a clerk as a lover ( which she has ) tests her by pretending to go away but returning in the guise of a clerk . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm building up my credibility by fighting someone like Tony Tucker while Bowe loses his by taking on people like his last opponent , Michael Dokes , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Somewhere above his head , a deep voice intoned the ritual words : ‘ For the Judas who turns against his Brothers — the man who betrays us by revealing the innermost secrets of our Guild — the punishment shall be as follows … . |
| 14 | It inwardly destroys itself by concentrating on efficiency and on building a convenient systematic way of life which largely ignores the humans it caters for . |
| 15 | Mr Menem woos them by saying that both money wages and public-sector employment should rise . |
| 16 | Mira 's only possible recourse is to a parodic ventriloquy of male modes of communication which subtly undermines them by using word play to expose the ‘ fictions ’ that underpin supposedly objective information and ‘ expert ’ analyses from Herodotus 's time to the present . |
| 17 | In an imagined interview at the Labour Exchange , the protagonist claims that he has only been ‘ spasmodically in labour ’ , then immediately corrects himself by rephrasing the slip as ‘ employed intermittently ’ ( 19/21 ) . |
| 18 | The echidna , Australia 's spiny anteater , protects itself by digging rapidly downwards until its soft underside is completely hidden and its enemy is offered only a sea of powerful , sharp spikes . |
| 19 | On the drivechart the decision points , represented by square boxes , each offer a natural group of alternative routes to the teacher , who chooses one by pressing a single key — eg , ‘ 1 ’ selects the inverse problem where the computer provides the ‘ output ’ number from the named function and invites the class to guess the ‘ input ’ number . |
| 20 | Possible strategies include the domestic strategy where the female recognizes domestic qualities in males in advance and therefore benefits herself by choosing a male with qualities . |
| 21 | Whenever a female enters his territory he courts her by swimming in a zig-zag dance , eventually leading her to the next where she enters and he prods her tail to entice her to lay her eggs . |
| 22 | As Pip has realised that Magwitch is Estella 's father and he comforts him by telling him that his daughter is still alive and that he is in love with her . |
| 23 | He marks it by distinguishing between resemblance in a given particular , resemblance which consists in the possession of certain common peculiarities , on the one hand , and what he calls ‘ mere general resemblance ’ , ‘ general unanalysable resemblance ’ , or ‘ simple likeness ’ , on the other . |
| 24 | The organisation which is gifted with intelligence shows it by arranging its actions on a certain plan … . |
| 25 | Money supply will rise if ( a ) banks choose to hold a lower liquidity ratio and thus create more credit for an existing amount of liquidity ; ( b ) there is a total currency flow surplus ; ( c ) the government runs a PSBR and finances it by borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad ; ( d ) the government switches its method of financing the national debt to borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad . |
| 26 | He won MVP awards — Most Valuable Player , ’ he explained to Perdita , ‘ all summer , then blows it by testing positive for drugs the day before the US Open . |
| 27 | The cross does not affect God because he has always been loving and desiring our repentance ; it affects us by presenting us with an example of love and sacrifice which overwhelms us because of its outrageous generosity . |
| 28 | Britain recaptures them by sending a large naval task force . |
| 29 | The curriculum justifies itself by saying that unless teachers deliberately introduce the subject of homosexuality to the classroom it would be unlikely ever to arise among the children themselves . |
| 30 | The bird ties it by holding a strip on to a branch with one foot and then , using its beak , passing the end round the branch , threading it through one of the turns and pulling it tight . |