Example sentences of "[vb infin] by [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us finish by reminding ourselves of the traditional skills and purposes of historians . |
| 2 | If the craving returned , I could cope by contemplating it for an hour or two , until it went away . |
| 3 | Because producers are valuing the resources in terms of the price producers could get by transferring them to the meals industry . |
| 4 | You may well be able to foretell how the card may operate by examining it against the picture of the results on page 28 of the manual . |
| 5 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 6 | He might start by transferring himself from the wheelchair across onto a seat in the bath , and washing himself sitting up . |
| 7 | ‘ Why , you 'll start by asking everyone on the Woodfield Estate , and if we still have n't found him , we 'll work our way through the rest of town . |