Example sentences of "[vb infin] by [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the other point which lies beyond the reef of my comprehension : if you have been deserted by Daddy , then why react by going to bed with Daddy-substitutes , by donating la fleur de l'âge to a line-up of old gropers ? |
| 2 | Happily , however , it 's one you can easily avoid by talking to BSB today . |
| 3 | ‘ Lady Agnes , what did you mean by referring to Queen Yolande as a virgin pretending to be pregnant ? ’ |
| 4 | This can often be easily achieved when the problem has sufficient structure as we will now illustrate by turning to transportation problems . |
| 5 | There has to always be a control and that control will necessarily involve experiments on animals and the animal pressure groups are doing more harm than they can ever conceivably imagine by trying to control experiments on animals , because if they do n't experiment on animals a human somewhere is going to die . |
| 6 | But Mr Bentine does have his good points — apart from a chuckling delivery style he did not learn by listening to voice-overs on Horizon . |