Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] by [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gladly accepted a lift back to Stromness on Venturous and repaid me by filling in some details for my report on the development of the terminal and the Piper Oil Field which would be supplying it . |
| 2 | Relieved Rangers manager Walter Smith knew it would need something special to break Marseille 's French resistance , and McSwegan provided it by finishing off a superb move started by Ian Durrant . |
| 3 | ‘ Your mouth gives away the fact that you 're not the frigid woman you 're making out to be — aside from all the other proof I have ! ’ he needled her by saying curtly . |
| 4 | Mapletoft , having knocked over the conversion , trumped it by banging over a 30-metre dropped goal off his weak foot to level at 20–20 . |
| 5 | In the bedlam the Spaniard built a 5-0 lead but then 22-year-old sports journalist Nicola stunned her by fighting back to 5-3 . |
| 6 | Marguerite surprised her by nodding wryly and making a small grimace . |
| 7 | The Minister surprised him by getting up . |
| 8 | He sounded impressed , then spoilt it by lapsing back into the mocking tone of their earlier conversation . |
| 9 | We were doubtful as to whether Owen would lie still long enough for a back massage , but he surprised us by putting up with it for about ten minutes . |
| 10 | On his return he puzzled me by behaving exactly as I expected an S.S.O. to behave . |
| 11 | In consequence he became , in Liddie 's eyes , the kind of mother her own mother had been — one who disabled her by taking over . |
| 12 | Then he disconcerted her by laughing again , but the sound was laced with a derision she found intolerable . |
| 13 | The withdrawal of privileges is a very popular response by parents to non-compliance — for example : ‘ You 've been cheeky so I wo n't let you go out ’ ; ‘ You disobeyed me by going out on the road so you ca n't have that ice-cream . ’ |
| 14 | None of the French journalists embarrassed him by pointing out that this first ‘ petit saison ’ of the Opera — and even the next season — fall far short of the target for the Opera de la Bastille , which is 250 performances a year . |
| 15 | The pillar box was mounted on a platform about 10ft above deck and you reached it by climbing up a ladder . |
| 16 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 17 | ‘ There was this one scene where Dustin first did it by coming on very strong as the scene opened and then gradually bringing things down until everything was just suggested by innuendo and gestures . |
| 18 | ONE group of men turned the tide of the Gulf War against Saddam Hussein — and they did it by tying up thousands of Iraqi soldiers in a deadly , sophisticated and top secret game of cat and mouse in the desert . |
| 19 | They would be quite happy to forget all those things so long as Fedorov obliged them by carrying out certain routine tasks from time to time . |
| 20 | The Conservatives ' desperation to devise a counter-programme for the land , and the disagreements it provoked , demonstrate the degree of confusion which still existed in the Conservative ranks and the immense problems they still faced before the ‘ rampant omnibus ’ of the Great War rescued them by running down their opponents . |
| 21 | And then she quite confounded me by doing exactly what I advised , and I always thought she took me for a crank whose horse sense , if any , was a forced calm not to be heeded . |
| 22 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 23 | Is Prince Edward gay ? , we ended it by asking just one : Who cares ? |
| 24 | At breakfast she occasionally annoyed us by reeling off lists of groceries we were all to pick up during the day and bring home in time for dinner . |