Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like you to get to know your body better by looking in the mirror and seeing the improvements in your shape as each day goes by . |
| 2 | Do you slow other people down by driving in the rush hour ? |
| 3 | Perhaps by joining in the public disapproval of surrogacy , and seemingly sharing the moral universe of ‘ Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells ’ , the Committee may have increased their sphere of influence . |
| 4 | Linguistic research which was meant to help women understand and change their reality is being used here to hurt them , if only by creating in the mind of the female reader one more problem , a linguistic inadequacy for which she must blame herself . |
| 5 | The fact of the conviction can be proved just by putting in the certificate from the convicting court . |
| 6 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 7 | The pair celebrated the news yesterday by parading in the lavish costumes specially designed for them for Dick Whittington at the Empire Theatre . |
| 8 | Football now has Bob Wilson of Arsenal and Emlyn Hughes of Liverpool and on independent television there is Ian StJohn and Jimmy Greaves ( ‘ The Saint and Greavsie ’ ) , who have taken the art of televised sport a step further by reproducing in the studio all the mixture of jokes and outlandish memories , bets , hunches , tactical shrewdness , and affectionate ‘ piss-taking ’ that make up a friendly hour in the pub . |
| 9 | You can fool them once by realigning in the middle of the trading day , as Spain did recently . |
| 10 | Running through her mind , like a tape she was unable to switch off , was the newspaper story that Peter Sebastian was thought to have an American fiancée and would probably by staying in the States . |
| 11 | In fact , a graph briefly shown at the announcement implied that Windows benchmark performance could be improved more substantially by slotting in the £385 video adaptor than a Pentium board . |
| 12 | In the IBM case , IBM was considered by the Commission to hold a dominant position ( inter alia ) in the supply of two key products for a particular computer system , and was found to have abused its dominant position by refusing to supply other manufacturers in sufficient time with technical information to permit the interfacing of those other products with IBM equipment , particularly by tying in the supply of IBM software and hardware and by discriminating between users of IBM software . |
| 13 | Thus , books ( and such materials as instruction videos ) continue through life w support physical development , latterly by helping in the improvement of sports and other leisure skills . |
| 14 | Player Manager , Glenn Hoddle , pushed his men on by joining in the attack . |
| 15 | Expansion to north Italy brought into play the gold of the Val d'Aosta and south Piedmont , but it was the Second Punic War ( 218–201 B.C. ) which first increased the supply of gold significantly by taking in the alluvial deposits of the Guadalquivir . |
| 16 | Certainly by walking in the steps of Jesus who is the Way and through the leadings of the Holy Spirit who indwells God 's people . |