Example sentences of "[pron] by [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below . |
| 2 | In arable districts most usable lad must already have been taken up , and with the commons jealously guarded by farmers to whom they were essential for keeping the animals on which cultivation depended , the landless man stood a better chance of carving a niche for himself by drifting to a less-developed , mainly pastoral terrain . |
| 3 | If size of following were proof of quality , then Glazunov would be a candidate for the title of greatest living artist : in Brezhnev 's time ( he was the premier 's favourite artist ) he ingratiated himself by playing on the sentimental Slavic strand in Soviet life with ‘ symphonic canvases [ which ] overflow with the dreams and feeling of the Russian people ’ . |
| 4 | The system funds itself by operating on the Royal Bank of Canada 's over-the-counter exchange rates which are not as fine as those obtained by the institution itself . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , might neurobiologists in general , and memory researchers in particular , not gain something by concentrating on a limited number of model systems that everyone could agree on ? |
| 6 | She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so . |
| 7 | Whenever a female enters his territory he courts her by swimming in a zig-zag dance , eventually leading her to the next where she enters and he prods her tail to entice her to lay her eggs . |
| 8 | I tried to take his mind off her by talking about the Norwegian leather industry but he could n't get interested somehow . |
| 9 | Her attendants pay homage before entertaining her by dancing round the small maypole set up for the purpose . |
| 10 | In this assessment of an explanation the writer has disagreed with the main proposition and supported it by looking at the Liberal and Labour parties separately , and secondly at the other factors making for Liberal decline . |
| 11 | Clearly , you can not inherit a taste for it by coming from a separatist family , nor by living in a separatist neighbourhood . |
| 12 | Cos she saw me putting the corn in and she decided she 'd try and get it by diving through the black net instead of going through the gate , like with a normal hen , you know , this one 's obviously brain dead or |
| 13 | I knew I was n't attractive and I did n't help myself by dressing like a young fogey in tweed sportsjackets , flannel trousers and open-necked check shirts . |
| 14 | You enjoy yourself by performing to the best of your ability — as soon as you become irresponsible , you 're not performing to that level and , if you 're honest with yourself , you wo n't enjoy it . |
| 15 | Apart from that , I have n't the least interest in whether you choose to kill yourself by falling from a great height , or crashing into something at high speed . ’ |
| 16 | There is a sort of joy in persuading the English you are the right person for them by dancing like a stoned Russian . |
| 17 | So , Creation 6 takes care of this for us by working on an elastic grid , allowing us to design in proportion and then making this a proportional pattern within the electronics to keep the design proportions correct . |