Example sentences of "[verb] by [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Hendry 's ego was further shattered by losing to John Parrott in the last frame of the Dubai Duty Free Classic final and again to him in Belgium . |
| 2 | MIP-1 β was immobilized by binding to proteoglycan : a conjugate of heparin with bovine serum albumin and cellular proteoglycan CD44 were both effective . |
| 3 | They deny , however , that anything useful is added by referring to states of the brain in terms of awareness or consciousness , or even as representations of the environment . |
| 4 | A few grams can be legitimately shed by stripping to undershorts and T — shirts . |
| 5 | They also act by binding to class II MHC molecules and stimulating large numbers of T cells through their V elements . |
| 6 | He felt that this could best be done by resorting to myths . |
| 7 | This was done by standing to attention outside the station building with the station-master 's staff of office held out in front of the body . |
| 8 | The Greek achievement represented an ideal : special , superior , but still largely remote and mysterious ; Germany 's own new culture was to evolve by coming to terms with it ; and a collective effort was to be the means of realizing that aim . |
| 9 | And what 's more , Uncle Pumblechook , realizing that this boy 's fortune may be made by going to Miss Havisham 's , has offered to take him into town tonight in his carriage , and let him sleep in his own house , and deliver him tomorrow to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 10 | He is recorded as having said that no way would the Winslades get back their rightful estate save by going to law , ‘ … which by poverty they shall never be able to do ’ . |
| 11 | I first turned to them out of desparation in a case where I was making no progress and after some initial success my enthusiasm was further stimulated by talking to Richard Pitt a member of The Society of Homœopaths who kindly sent me a photocopy of the article by Dr. Robert Schore which is reprinted here . |
| 12 | The charity can be contacted by writing to Cruse Bereavement Care , Foyle Branch , 9 Crawford Square or by telephoning 262941 between 9.30am-1.30pm . |
| 13 | He began by talking to Mr and Mrs Singh about the school . |
| 14 | And the other point which lies beyond the reef of my comprehension : if you have been deserted by Daddy , then why react by going to bed with Daddy-substitutes , by donating la fleur de l'âge to a line-up of old gropers ? |
| 15 | Happily , however , it 's one you can easily avoid by talking to BSB today . |
| 16 | He investigates by going to places , tackling people , often but not always by shooting or slugging them , and often but not obligatorily so by going to bed with them . |
| 17 | " The Archbishop the next day travelling to Rochester , told his story to some of his familiars and had scarce concluded it when he was siezed with a sudden shivering and sickness , that he could scarce get to the village of Halling , a place of the Bishop of Rochester , where he had no sooner arrived by going to bed that night he died of a fit of collick " . |
| 18 | They survived by clinging to tradition , and to each other . |
| 19 | While the sinusoidal responses of the circuits of figures 10.11(a) and ( b ) are represented by equation ( 10.40 ) with , and , respectively , their behaviour is better appreciated by returning to fundamentals . |
| 20 | Mr Milburn added : ‘ The current slump has claimed 1,300 manufacturing jobs in the town and the Conservatives have let another 3,000 jobs go begging by refusing to back Darlington with proper regional assistance . ’ |
| 21 | I suggest that the answer to this can be found by looking to theories of the family and to legal structures . |
| 22 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 23 | ‘ Lady Agnes , what did you mean by referring to Queen Yolande as a virgin pretending to be pregnant ? ’ |
| 24 | Added together , the anti-London lobby said , there was around £2.5 million to be gained by moving to Manchester . |
| 25 | There is only one freedom to be gained by travelling to Bavduin . |
| 26 | Torquay 's Paul Hall swung a frustrated punch at midfielder Steve Harrower , who reacted by appearing to head-butt the young winger . |
| 27 | In 1763 he published What is Meant by Coming to Christ , the text of a sermon he had delivered in one of the London churches . |
| 28 | ‘ Generally Designers start by going to Art School where they begin doing Basic Design before , later , they specialise in some form of three dimensional design . |
| 29 | ‘ Cardinal Stuart , ’ wrote the British minister in Florence to Horace Walpole , ‘ by putting on the cowle [ i.e. cardinal 's hat ] has done more to extinguish his party than would have been effected by putting to death many thousand of deluded followers . ’ |
| 30 | It could be said that to understand what he means by prayer is to understand what he means by talking to God . |