Example sentences of "[to-vb] by [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I more or less fell into it , and without quite realising what I was doing obeyed a primitive instinct to hide by crawling under the track . |
| 2 | Chiang tried to escape by running up the mountain , and a pavilion has been built to mark the place where he tried to hide in a crevice before he was caught . |
| 3 | I managed to escape by diving into the river . |
| 4 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 5 | Turning now to the income-related benefits , as the House knows , the uprating is , in this respect , based not on the full retail prices index , but on what is known as the Rossi index , which , in essence , is the RPI less housing costs but which we have this year brought more exactly into line with what the benefits are intended to cover by including in the calculation 20 per cent . |
| 6 | This appears to be the first contradiction which the bishops later sought to resolve by withdrawing from the direct contact method . |
| 7 | This is impossible to do by staying within the lines , although it is easy to get close to success . |
| 8 | Then Monica , in apparently wanting the ITF to change the Olympic eligibility rules to suit top players who did not want to qualify by playing in the Federation Cup , said ‘ without Gabriela , Martina or I in the Olympics , they would n't really be the Olympics and Steffi could win the gold medal playing left-handed . ’ |
| 9 | They were to start by talking to the officers in the Drugs Squad that Nicola had met . |
| 10 | ( c ) TRANSITION — intention to proceed by looking at the Reform Act . |
| 11 | You have little to lose by attacking with the utmost determination . |
| 12 | I 'm sticking to the rules and I refuse to panic by paying over the odds because that 's how this club has got into trouble in the past . |
| 13 | Surely , as a society , we need to begin by looking into the social training of our young people . |
| 14 | It is by no means uncommon for exploratory social research in an area where little work has been done to begin by looking at the characteristics of people involved . |
| 15 | Since rising retirement rates among elderly people have been one of the striking developments in labour market behaviour this century , it seems appropriate to begin by looking at the reasons why the employment status of the elderly population has changed so much over time , and the consequences of this change . |
| 16 | Any consideration of the Labour Party concern to change the kind of democracy on offer to the people within a new British constitution has to begin by attending to the battles within the Labour Party and to the resulting changes that have occurred in the constitution of the party . |
| 17 | This would lead to a greater loss of independence and the identity of the practice than is likely to occur by staying outside the fundholding system . |
| 18 | Will the Prime Minister take this advice : ’ We have nothing to gain by sitting on the margins while others frame new structures without us ’ ? |
| 19 | The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all . |
| 20 | They learn to speak by joining in the songs , rhymes , and numerous games . |