Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | These limitations on the availability of the interlocutory procedures are presumably designed to prevent AJRs becoming bogged down by complex factual arguments , thus unduly delaying public programmes . |
| 2 | ‘ Imagine gettin' knocked down by a tram in the middle of Lime Street wearin' them things . |
| 3 | The customer is the people of Lincolnshire that we represent , they are going to lose out by this sort of policy and we oppose the principle of borrowing for these sort of reasons , |
| 4 | The boys not scribing joined in by offering ideas and producing elaborate pictures , inventing new details to enliven the narrative as they developed their pictures . |
| 5 | Next , her long red hair was pulled so hard she felt as if it was going to come out by the roots . |
| 6 | Consequently , I am going to start off by outlining some of the philosophical beliefs about the nature of mind which underpin contemporary research in the cognitive sciences , including cognitive neuropsychology . |
| 7 | I 'm going to start off by suggesting why people like yourselves ought to be much more pro-active , take a much more lead in terms of doing things with the media . |
| 8 | What you 're saying , essentially , is that if you just automatically put a bet on every outsider with long odds , say twenty to one or something , through an entire season , you 're going to end up by losing money overall . |
| 9 | Well next time you 're in a taxi getting shaken about by a monster from Hell , do n't expect us to come to your rescue again . |
| 10 | I mean the erm , the effects of the recession in North America , the great fear of lay offs amongst white collar workers in North America erm began to show itself towards the end of last year , and indeed major corporations were reducing their business travel by cutting back on their travel budgets erm and that was beginning to come through by October/November last year in erm reduced long haul travel . |
| 11 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 12 | The tension was eased and they both laughed because they knew it was impossible , her getting tipsy and aggressive and him getting turned on by it . |
| 13 | Imagine getting turned on by a biker ! |
| 14 | From now on we shall not hang around our side of the Front , waiting for the foe and getting shot down by the French artillery . |
| 15 | Life was getting harder for village shops : ‘ All the little firms we dealt with started to disappear , getting swallowed up by the big boys . |
| 16 | The differential staining reflects a different response to chromatin uncoiling brought about by the extended hypotonic treatment ( Table 7 ) . |
| 17 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |
| 18 | He would n't , of course , as he usually did , have to spend the months in Purley worrying about Rochester , and wondering whether she was getting knocked about by flotsam in his absence . |
| 19 | No , I think she was getting chatted up by the bloke who owned the place , really ! |
| 20 | He was a follower of Sham 69 and I remember going to a concert of theirs at the LSE and almost getting beaten up by skinheads . |
| 21 | OK , so you 'd probably end up getting gunned down by the SAS or something , but that 's got to be a better end for a bunch of real rock terrorists than ending up as a Levi 's advert . |
| 22 | This suggests a reduction in nitrate leaching brought about by the now well-established practice of cultivation of winter cereals , together with less use of fertiliser in the autumn . |
| 23 | In that way , you minimize the risk of making a poor choice and a false start in your first year , with the consequent possibility of having to catch up by taking extra classes or to repeat classes the following year . |
| 24 | But it certainly has n't determined policy in any way , because what we 've said is that provided we 're satisfied that there is n't profiteering going on by the oil companies , and our Office of Fair Trading have told us that there is n't , then it is right that , that we should pay the right price for our petrol , and that is what it costs at any one time . |
| 25 | In New York and Boston businessmen and women can get business travel advice and tips on how to keep travelling costs down by tuning in to daily business travel programmes on local radio stations . |
| 26 | Sitting propped up by your arms , place the ball between your bent knees . |
| 27 | When he came back Breeze was sitting curled up by the fire in the quaint but attractive parlour , her eyes fixed thoughtfully on the dancing flames . |
| 28 | I mean , why would anybody cover a Monkees song that everybody in the world f—ing knows off by heart and not do a damn thing with it ? |
| 29 | It complements in a modest way the safety programmes and the ‘ safeguards ’ monitoring carried out by the International Atomic Energy Agency from its headquarters in Vienna . |
| 30 | Try and understand what the interviewer will be hoping to find out by asking the questions , so that your replies can be relevant and informative . |