Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he smiles , he looks slightly goofy , the skin pulled right over his cheeks like the face children make by sticking their fingers in the corners of their mouths . |
| 2 | Even the decoits in the interior of Sind who had been closely following Pakistan 's victory march in their hide-outs expressed their joy by firing their weapons in the air without fear of being discovered . |
| 3 | Together , by getting their fingers in the rat-holes , they managed to tug up a few feet of rotten chestnut boarding , tindery at the edges . |
| 4 | It went on to explain that when war broke out many country gentlemen , as well as the burgesses of a number of cities and towns , chose to serve the King not by joining his armies in the field , but by pulling up their drawbridges , slamming their gates , and challenging the enemy to contest the issue . |
| 5 | Ticks fasten themselves aboard by burying their mouthparts in the skin , and live by sucking the host 's blood . |
| 6 | Lord Keith 's career , in which he held important commands in distant waters , particularly at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Mediterranean , gave him further opportunities to strengthen his political interest by advancing his friends in the service . |
| 7 | But he soon preferred to read human nature by taking his meals in the general dining-room with the dairy people . |
| 8 | You can select any uninitialised item from the list displayed by LIFESPAN and initialise it by entering its details in the columns of the table , as described below . |
| 9 | You can allocate a media item to each identifier by entering its details in the other columns of the table . |
| 10 | You can allocate a media unit to each identifier by entering its details in the other columns of the table . |
| 11 | Since much of our ‘ intellectual debt ’ to the originators of ideas is filtered by reading their ideas in the works of others , it is difficult to acknowledge the extent to which the originators have influenced our thinking . |
| 12 | The other was more subtle ; by housing his workers in the country , where life was far healthier than in the crowded tenements of the city , he could provide them with space to grow their own vegetables . |
| 13 | The angle at which sound strikes the slits greatly affects the strength in which it reaches the drum , so the grasshopper , by waving its legs in the air , can discover the direction from which a call is coming . |
| 14 | It may be argued that in parliamentary democracies the people can protest every five years or so by casting their votes in the election of a new government . |
| 15 | By dipping his arrowheads in the monster 's blood , he ensured they would become poisonous . |
| 16 | Too often , however , it did this by lecturing its listeners in the manner of a public school housemaster reproving the slackers who let the side down by their want of ‘ team spirit . ’ |