Example sentences of "[v-ing] by [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE furious Pakistani cricket team started a racism row last night after England batsman Allan Lamb accused them of cheating by tampering with the ball . |
| 2 | Rising divorce rates affect the family 's capacity for caring by adding to the number of lone parents . |
| 3 | As you improve , instead of riding in a straight line along a wave you start manoeuvring by footsteering on the wave just as surfers do . |
| 4 | Gumperz approaches the pragmatics of code switching by looking at the social significance of each language or code , the content of the utterance and the code of that utterance . |
| 5 | The commonalty find their justification in speaking by speaking as the mouthpiece of another . |
| 6 | The move away from teaching by copying in the second half of this century and the lack of space for exhibiting the works has meant that the collection has been largely hidden . |
| 7 | That is what you have been doing by lying about the many things you say took place . ’ |
| 8 | But we 've not wilfully put at risk services or jobs by risking capping by going in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | These are to provide short term relief to those suffering from the effects of the famine and to try to prevent the famine continuing by getting to the root of the problem , and so having more lasting long term effects . |
| 10 | Moving on to Mr Curtis , I do n't want to dwell and re re er restate the the difference I had with Mr Curtis this morning , but again he did start a little bit of a red herring running by talking about the major commitment for retailing facilities , er there is a major commitment for retailing facilities in Greater York , er a degree of all provision . |
| 11 | I only saved myself from falling by clutching at the arm of the oak settle . |
| 12 | The mountaineers are working by abseiling down the side of the building to attach vast metal letters spelling out the word ‘ Cornmill ’ . |