Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Super Sally joined an exclusive club by becoming only the fifth British girl athlete to strike gold and only the second ever on the track , following Ann Packer in Tokyo 28 years ago . |
| 2 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 3 | By trimming down the first act , they kept the pace going , and the second act benefited . |
| 4 | After the therapist has introduced him/herself , explaining something about their profession , and the actual referral process , they might continue by explaining how the first session will proceed . |
| 5 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 6 | The Fibonacci series is produced by adding together the last two numbers in a sequence to get the next number — 1 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 5 , 8 , 13 , 21 , 34 and so on . |
| 7 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 8 | The ascii code allows for these by setting aside the first 32 values , from 00h to 1Fh , as ‘ control characters ’ . |
| 9 | You can ‘ fool ’ the drive by covering up the second capacity signalling hole . |