Example sentences of "[adj] by [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does this by drugging them with things which it persuades them to believe they want . |
| 2 | The following day he would underline all three by driving it to Hurstdown Abbey . |
| 3 | A few months later the Oxfordshire Education Committee responded to 10/65 by appointing me as co-ordinator for the Banbury reorganization , and commissioned me to submit plans : the noisy sewage pump had done its work . |
| 4 | And they go and spoil it all by cutting it in chunks . |
| 5 | Then , far too late anyway , the Dukakis advisors decided to change tack and try to make ‘ liberalism ’ sound decent by linking it to names from the past like Kennedy and Truman . |
| 6 | At the hotel Jane Postlethwaite made it worse by inviting them to tea on the following afternoon . |
| 7 | Attempts to make the arts accountable by submitting them to forms of assessment which properly belong elsewhere may actually make them appear wanting by looking for inappropriate forms of proof . |
| 8 | We know that Olaudah Equiano spread successive printings of his autobiography after its first publication in 1789 by selling them with antislavery as well as personal benefit in mind to his audiences after meetings . |
| 9 | The therapist must ensure that the client 's ratings of anxiety are as accurate as possible by discussing them in detail with the client . |
| 10 | Throughout his period in office , de Gaulle stuck to this line ( and to the principle of a decentralized Germany ) , although he tried to make it more palatable by recasting it in terms of Germany 's integration within a larger West European bloc . |
| 11 | He spared us both by referring me to eye-witness accounts published by Amnesty International . |