Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DOWNING Street insists that President-elect Bill Clinton is not angry with the British Government and so is not snubbing John Major by refusing to meet him in Washington later this month . |
| 2 | BILL CLINTON has snubbed Premier John Major by refusing to meet him in Washington later this month . |
| 3 | But the German jury responsible for selecting its nation 's entries for the Academy Awards caused a rumpus by declining to submit it for nomination . |
| 4 | This may be demonstrated by attempting to translate it into French or German . |
| 5 | Mike Lynch , of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , said whale watchers were posing a risk to the animals — and placing themselves in danger — by trying to track them from boats . |
| 6 | If the hostages were reasonably safe and reasonably well cared for , why jeopardize our policy and priorities in the Middle East by trying to rescue them by force ? |
| 7 | Griffin further argued that it was wrong to attempt to explain girls ' experience by trying to fit them into models derived from studies of male youth . |
| 8 | Does my hon. Friend agree that it would be wrong to keep uneconomic pits open by trying to protect them from competition from imported coal ? |