Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [adv prt] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sister who 'd protested and overruled her by bringing in another doctor to relieve Brückner 's suffering . |
| 2 | ‘ But , until we do , you can make yourself useful by binding up this hole in my arm before I give you the pleasure of bleeding to death . ’ |
| 3 | Such considerations were probably crucial before initiation ritual developed to deal with the conflicts between sons and fathers ; but even after such conflicts had become institutionalized and ritualized neoteny had an important role to play in postponing the age of initiation by opening up that gap in human psycho-sexual development which Freud called the latency period and which , as we shall see , is an important factor in considering the social and mental health of modern societies . |
| 4 | ‘ The officer says , will you kindly oblige by filling in this form ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Good , now I just want you to save me and yourself a lot of trouble by filling in this form for the Red Cross . ’ |
| 6 | We got her to help by writing out this queschun for us . |
| 7 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 8 | ‘ You can start by cleaning up that mess . ’ |
| 9 | So we can get to it by going up this way . |
| 10 | Wolfenstein is so addictive you will probably attempt to play it to a conclusion by staying up all night . |
| 11 | Wolfenstein is so addictive you will probably attempt to play it to a conclusion by staying up all night . |
| 12 | Much of geography over the last 40 years has been concerned with analysing these subsystems by breaking down each subsystem into ever smaller component parts and studying these parts , and their interrelationships , at an increasing level of detail . |
| 13 | This makes it possible to access any individual frame by calling up that address and displaying its contents . |
| 14 | ‘ What he is hoping , by blurting out such nonsense , is that he is keeping his finger firmly on the self-destruct button for the British monarchy . ’ |
| 15 | Commercially the deal makes sense and the merged operation may be able to save up to £3.5m a year by cutting out any duplication . |
| 16 | Can you even remember whether this had been volunteered to you , weeks or months before or is this something you found out by asking around that day ? |
| 17 | But , according to other track promoters , Ladbrokes are embargo-busting by giving out this information . |
| 18 | Small cracks should be enlarged by chipping out more concrete to make a V-shaped channel . |
| 19 | Beside this , the very persistence of the term is itself worthy of interest and on academic , moral and political grounds any resolution of the uncertainty that surrounds the value of the concept of the inner city must surely start by taking on this vocabulary for what it is . |
| 20 | Each reader could do a great deal of good by taking up this matter with his or her local MP or prospective candidate . |
| 21 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 22 | The literature of Scottish geology , however , whilst it has grown in terms of numbers of papers , has not resulted in any increase in the numbers of journals devoted to it ( except for the Scottish Journal of Geology ) , but has grown by taking up more space in existing journals , and by expanding into areas covered by new , multidisciplinary journals , such as Precambrian Research , Chemical Geology , Tectonophysics , and similar publications . |
| 23 | Mrs Thatcher was cute enough to see the need to cultivate the backbenchers who made up her lobby fodder and the knighthood became once again the reward for wrecked marriages and broken health caused by sitting up all night to vote as the whips instructed . |
| 24 | By carrying out this exercise you are adopting a constructive approach to your child 's difficult behaviour . |
| 25 | Retributive punishment restores the balance by cancelling out this advantage with a commensurate disadvantage . |
| 26 | They took the NoS way out by setting up another committee — the product development committee — to keep Sutton in line . |
| 27 | Douglas , the leading US maker of pan washers for the bakery trade , provides a profitable US base and the chance to undercut the market by setting up more cost effective production facilities based on Lincat 's UK operations . |
| 28 | The proud deck hatches made matters worse by throwing up any water that came along the deck ; they should really have been recessed . |
| 29 | By clearing out this mind and asking for help from our mentor with our intuitive self , which is hidden inside us , we can progressively strengthen ourselves . |