Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could not reassure her by telling her Neil was there , and watching , it was possible , more , probable , that she would insist either on my moving into a lodging in the village , or that some of the men from the village would keep watch on Otters ' Bay and the empty house . |
| 2 | Unless one presumed to know God 's purposes , how could one know that He might not achieve them by varying the quantity of motion ? |
| 3 | If you can not do it by constructing the notion of pains which are not yours , you can not do it any other way . |
| 4 | Language is activity and we will not understand it by trying to put a static model of a complete language-system into the lead of an individual user . |
| 5 | I will not insult you by asking you to be my servant , Burkett , but nevertheless I could use a good man to drive this coach down to Grasmere , get me some fishing over a few days , be prepared to go the odd errand — about a week in all I would guess . |
| 6 | Having read his Burke , he knows the aphorism which I will not insult you by quoting about taxation . |
| 7 | However , even on the view that the plaintiff must be the target , no malice or spite is required : apart from the protection of the trade disputes legislation the tort would be committed by a trade union officer calling his members out on strike and he can not defend himself by arguing that his purpose was the increase of his members ' wages : unlike the tort of conspiracy , no predominant purpose to injure the plaintiff is required . |
| 8 | If he were to conform to the strict rules of etiquette and combat guiding the danseurs nobles of the French opera-ballets , he would not demean himself by seizing the nearest thing at hand , the rudder from his boat , to put his adversary to flight . |
| 9 | The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon the law , or rather a tendency , or let us say a probability , or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance , which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often . |
| 10 | • When the activity of our kidneys is considered , a bed-time drink does not waken us by filling our bladders during the night , whereas a similar drink in the daytime causes urine flow to increase quite rapidly . |
| 11 | He can not approach it by superimposing successive and ever more accurate ( more informed ) mental approximations to the real thing ; he can not name it , like an object , without fear of equivocation ; but rather it lies here , in the moment through which he is passing , and the important thing is to see that . |
| 12 | If you have a dog that behaves in this fashion , do not encourage it by making soothing noises , entreating it to calm down . |
| 13 | Life is rarely easy , and we do not gain anything by holding a grudge against someone , especially if we love them . |
| 14 | But I will not humiliate myself by trying to justify what I do . |
| 15 | ‘ I hope I do not disturb you by telephoning you ; I find out you live in London from Piers , and so I think to myself that I will phone . ’ |
| 16 | She hoped that Constance would not embarrass her by telling Mick that she wished to be a kennel-maid : she 'd changed her mind anyway . |
| 17 | He could not help her by attacking Havvie and creating an even worse scandal ; that would be self-indulgent , merely seeking to exorcise his own guilt for not believing her . |
| 18 | The British did not help themselves by continuing to try to make more precise and explicit in the relationship what — at best — certain American policy-makers were prepared to concede only in private . |
| 19 | We were cut to pieces by Watford , though the defence did not help itself by defending too deeply . |
| 20 | Tonight , here , now , we ca n't hurt anyone by making love . ’ |
| 21 | We do n't accomplish anything by placing blame . |
| 22 | You ca n't win it by changing the parameters er if you do change the parameters of course then you 'll be fighting a different war and your objectives then become different . |
| 23 | It 's in my name — so for pity 's sake , do n't disgrace me by messing around with any of the masseuses . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't insult you by thinking I could learn enough in a couple of days . |
| 25 | so that he would n't upset himself by barking , that 's why I tapped on the window when I saw you . |
| 26 | ‘ … they could n't stop it by confiscating Highlander . |
| 27 | You do n't gain anything by playing innocent . |
| 28 | She would n't humiliate herself by seeming to be drawn to a man who had appeared to dislike and distrust her on sight . |
| 29 | There is after all nothing inherently wrong with quoting fiction — with saying , for example , that Baker Street once housed a detective called Sherlock Holmes — so long as you do n't mislead anyone by palming it off as a fact . |
| 30 | Mars charges your love-life with physical energy and passion but do n't spoil it by making too many demands on your partner . |