Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of course some companies do this and one or two manage to benefit from it by sending out a different type ) f product from their range each year . |
| 2 | Children can find out these differences and we might encourage them to talk about them by posing such questions as : |
| 3 | They made it respectable to talk about it by linking grants with the proper adoption of equal opportunity policies . |
| 4 | We would take some convincing that it can be right to depart from it by punishing more harshly than an offender ‘ deserves ’ on a standard tariff , for example by sentencing an offender to an exceptionally long custodial sentence for purposes of reform or incapacitation . |
| 5 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 6 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 7 | She had managed to cope with it by listening to the radio , playing tapes , even turning on breakfast television until its unremitting triviality had threatened to drive her even madder than she had felt herself going already . |
| 8 | Security is an overall office function , and the Computing Sub-Group , in its earlier discussions on security , has preferred to deal with it by ensuring that offices are kept as secure as possible , rather than by guarding individual pieces of hardware . |
| 9 | If you deviate from it , and it 's terribly easy to deviate from it by rejecting certain thoughts , oh that 's silly , that 's not relevant , that 's too obvious , that 's objectionable , erm , that 's too Freudian , you know , if you say that kind of thing to yourself you get nowhere . |
| 10 | ‘ They were pretty threatening but we tried to reason with them by offering free meals to children . |
| 11 | The world is what it is , and will remain so ; and you learn to live within it by adjusting yourself rather than it . |
| 12 | It is possible to get round the need to refer to yourself by using the following devices , which can be varied in order to avoid any over-formulaic effect : — Adverbs and adverbial expressions Instead of " I think it is likely that … " use " Arguably … " ( but bear in mind what we have said about " arguably " above , Chapter 3 , p. 68 ) . |
| 13 | She sighed heavily as she realised that either she had to confess or , much worse , she was going to have to continue to lie to them by inventing , when asked , things which she and Cara had done together while touring Czechoslovakia . |
| 14 | In the far north-east and Karnchatka a common marriage practice was the residence of the husband in the family of his bride for a certain period of time , in order to pay for her by performing work for the family . |
| 15 | Investment in an agency , branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business . |
| 16 | But if elected on June 8th , he plans to pay for it by leasing the city 's international airport for 30 years to a private-sector manager . |
| 17 | There s not much in the way of creation to be done against a blanket defence … all you can do is try to get behind them by getting it wide … which we did until the final ball . |
| 18 | ‘ And if they think that , then it makes sense to assume they 're trying to get to me by hurting you . ’ |
| 19 | He decided not to pander to it by asking for the admirers name . |