Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [v-ing] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started the car by letting it run downhill — Maxim had insisted they park so that there would be no give-away noise of the starter- and drove steadily for several miles . |
| 2 | It was the sort of thing she 'd do , thinking it wrong to punish a boy by making him go hungry . |
| 3 | Although you may be able to fob off your opponent by letting them have a copy of your accounts ledger , you should not be in a position where you have to write off for copy receipts ; all these documents should be properly filed . |
| 4 | At the Huntingdonshire Eyre in 1255 , for example , Norman Sampson , a riding forester , was convicted of having extorted money from a man in his bailiwick by making him sit upon a harrow . |
| 5 | The erm much , given much more dominance in the picture by making it stand right up above the horizon . |
| 6 | Noise/horror undoes the self by confronting it with the other that dwells within it , the monstrous potential latent in us all , waiting to be catalysed by an extreme predicament ; what I 've called the new psychedelia undoes the self by letting it drift off and disappear into the otherwordly . |
| 7 | You curve the surface by making it go down into a hollow . |
| 8 | Place your left hand on his or her forehead or , if you prefer , support the head by letting it rest in your left hand . |
| 9 | The worker should make strenuous efforts to help parents exercise their rights fully , for example by helping them obtain legal advice , and only after these steps have been taken , should a final agreement be signed . |
| 10 | Or perhaps it was that he had not wanted to turn Bertha 's disappointment with her daughters into bitterness by seeing him show too much interest in his son . |
| 11 | ‘ He believed in the code of loyalty and silence but he could have done himself a favour by letting us know where all the gold was . ’ |
| 12 | In contrast to the psychological rationalization , an ideological rationalization can refer to the socially shared content of ideology : in particular it can refer to the son of ideology , which seeks to explain the social world by making it seem rational . |
| 13 | 'In other words , ’ said Codron , ‘ we were responsible for totally mucking up this woman 's entry into womanhood by letting her see Loot . ’ |
| 14 | Glasgow offers an excellent Higher Education infrastructure and the Agency 's Technology Programme aims to build on this strength by helping it develop stronger links with key high technology companies . |
| 15 | The best thing to do is to channel this concern in a positive way by helping them practise revision and exam techniques at home . ’ |
| 16 | There was the hope that modest constitutional change might attach the middle classes to the established institutions of the country by making them consider the House of Commons as an ultimate tribunal where their grievances could be discussed and remedied . |
| 17 | Criticism and poetics both constrict the text by making it conform to a meaning or to a model . |
| 18 | In fact the function of such eye- and ear-witness accounts as the ‘ Kentucky fried chips ’ incident is to authorize and authenticate the racialization of experience by making it seem like an entirely spontaneous and natural process , and one for which blacks themselves must be held responsible . |