Example sentences of "by [v-ing] they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The good ones do n't have time for long drunken lunches , and you get better results by getting them to give you and the client a sandwich in a bar at six p.m . |
| 2 | He was accused in a pamphlet , written by the historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and circulated by Nigel Watts , a property developer , of deceiving the Yugoslavs by letting them believe they were going to Italy . |
| 3 | He recommends training children by asking them to tell you where they think its safe to cross , or when there 's a safe gap in traffic . |
| 4 | For example , capitalists in competition with each other could over-exploit their workforces , ruining workers ' productivity , and by immiserizing them render them incapable of absorbing factory outputs . |
| 5 | By leaving they know they have renounced the country where they were born , grew up and went to school . |