Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] by [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never knew what these special things were and tried to find out by sneaking down there at night , but the shed door was always locked . |
| 2 | Goodman tried to find out by demanding to know how many refugee children had been baptised since they had arrived in this country . |
| 3 | I tried to help out by looking at the putts , but he still did n't really need me . |
| 4 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |
| 5 | He admits he was extravagant as a young man , and liked to show off by over-tipping the ferryman . |
| 6 | He told police his attacker had broken in by levering beading from a window of his farmhouse . |
| 7 | Both Lloyd George and Churchill saw national insurance as a necessary first step towards the prevention of unemployment , which they hoped to bring about by extending the principle of the Development Fund into a national policy to counter depression . |
| 8 | Buyers were urged to boycott firms which refused to join in by looking for products that bore the NIRA badge : a Blue Eagle with the motto , " We Do Our Part " . |