Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | A coach driver steered 27 elderly passengers to safety yesterday by crashing his vehicle into an empty house after its brakes failed on a steep hill in Paignton , Devon . |
| 2 | During conflict , baboons may seek assistance from others by soliciting their participation in an attack upon an opponent . |
| 3 | Thus we can examine any given sequence of events dramatically by seeing these events through different eyes , or we can look at the same events from a distance by framing our drama as an investigation or an enquiry : we , the participants in the drama , could be townspeople celebrating the history of our town , creating a pageant . |
| 4 | This could be developed further by defending your assertion against an alternative — a Dickens critic who says that Dickens had an accurate view of these matters — and showing that the alternative view is incorrect , or that the critic provides no supporting evidence ( and so that there is no reason to believe the alternative view ) . |
| 5 | BY PUTTING YOUR REFUSE IN AN APPROVED BIN OR TIED PLASTIC SACK |
| 6 | Tesco in Basingstoke , Hampshire , responded to the crowds by extending its opening by an extra three hours . |
| 7 | When the time came for Stalin to be removed from the atheist Pantheon as a heretic , it was done posthumously by transferring his corpse to an obscure place rather like a properly canonised saint having the procedure reversed . |