Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He just limped around gaining more sympathy from his students by hinting what a brute his wife was . |
| 2 | Mohinder Amarnath , the all-rounder who angered the Indian selectors last year by labelling them a ‘ bunch of jokers ’ , has been recalled to the Indian team for the three-nation Sharjah Cup cricket tournament from 12 to 20 October . |
| 3 | He normally managed this by allowing himself a few seconds of pure indulgence in sensation and then thinking of something neutral for a while and , if this did n't work , something really horrible . |
| 4 | A compromise might be agreed with whaling nations who dissent from voting for moratoria by allowing them a more restricted quota than originally proposed . |
| 5 | Mr Major 's appeal to the rest of the EC came as he launched a late plan to bring Denmark back on board by allowing them a range of opt-outs from the Treaty — without altering the terms of the agreement itself . |
| 6 | The allusion to the famous novella in the Decameron ( 3 , 10 ) , in which ‘ to put the devil back in hell ’ was a euphemism for sexual intercourse by using which a hermit seduced a young novice , is given an application quite the reverse of Boccaccio 's warm-hearted celebration of the flesh : ‘ Yet this shall I ne'er know , but live in doubt/Till my bad angel fire my good one out . ’ |
| 7 | Provide a sense of seclusion and an attractive feature in a garden which is lacking in privacy by building yourself an arbour . |
| 8 | Eventually , however , the London and South-Western accommodated the imperial will by building her a private station at Wandsworth Road in 1854 . |
| 9 | ‘ Then you can make it up by purchasing me a change of clothes . ’ |
| 10 | The industry had responded to the great challenge of a whole era of ‘ Busybodies and Meddlers ’ by not only cleaning up minor abuses but by becoming itself an agency of social improvement . |
| 11 | By checking ourselves a moment before taking action , we give ourselves time to use our reasoning powers in investigating the most efficient and appropriate way of performing such an action . |
| 12 | This view , if it could be adequately defended , would successfully stave off individualism by denying it a significant part in social explanation ; but to establish the point is far from easy . |
| 13 | You can make a ceiling seem much higher by painting it a lighter colour than the walls and keeping the floor a light tone as well . |
| 14 | Having reduced Helena to tears by refusing her a kiss on his departure for the wars , he has , you notice , to check himself from an involuntary lunge forward to comfort her . |
| 15 | Again Heston held a good deal of creative control over the enterprise , and made his point to Caulfield by writing him a firm letter telling him to be on time or else . |
| 16 | Hugh 's last scruples about seeing him cut out of the will were satisfied by writing him a personal letter of appeal . |
| 17 | The hypothesis to be tested is that the method works by making explicit the connections between the strategy of reading by remembering what a word looks like and the strategy of reading by analysing the sounds in words . |
| 18 | Resources will be identified by assigning them a unique user-defined code . |
| 19 | Maybe we should start by defining what a carer is . |
| 20 | In the first decade of his reign Selim had attempted to appease the Serbs by granting them a degree of self-government . |
| 21 | A federal district court in Washington D.C. ruled on May 14 that the large accounting practice of Price Waterhouse should compensate for its earlier discrimination against Ann Hopkins , a former employee , by awarding her a partnership in the firm . |
| 22 | I would like to thank the Arkleton Trust for making this study possible by awarding me a Fellowship and the Nature Conservancy Council for agreeing to three months study leave . |
| 23 | Keele University acknowledged Michael Akehurst 's position as one of the foremost international lawyers of his time by awarding him a personal chair in February 1989 . |
| 24 | By 1958 , with more than 50 papers published , the University of London recognised Barber 's contribution to chemotherapy by awarding him a DSc . |
| 25 | Dogs Today 's Launch issue cover story last November featured Guinness , who earned a Bounce Superdog award when he saved his owner from a diabetic coma by fetching him a Mars bar . |
| 26 | Once a dog called Guinness saved his diabetic master by fetching him a Mars . |
| 27 | This may be tackled for example by paying them a relatively higher fixed salary with less dependent upon the outcome . |
| 28 | But Warren is prepared to meet Hodkinson halfway by paying him a further £25,000 — provided he beats McMillan but he will have to offer the WBO champion the same . |
| 29 | By paying you a decent wage ? ’ |
| 30 | While he was n't able to resist indulging his rather immature sense of humour by selling me a few dummies , my father could n't abide a son of his not being a credit to him in some way ; my body was a forlorn hope for any improvement , so only my mind was left . |