Example sentences of "by [v-ing] your [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If you tend to express your anger with your actions , by seeing your committed efforts to modify your responses , your partner will be that much more encouraged to speak openly with the belief that he or she will receive a real and fair hearing . |
2 | Further information about the services available can be obtained by contacting your nearest Training Centre . |
3 | You can arrange for a visit from a Home Service Adviser ( gas regions ) or Energy Marketing Team ( electricity companies ) by contacting your local showroom . |
4 | By using your special HICA cheque book you can withdraw a minimum of £100 in cash from the Midland branch where the account is held . |
5 | Within a year or so you will have the satisfaction of moving in to the house you have built with your own hands ; your old home will have been sold , allowing you to pay back the building society loan you took out to buy the land and materials ; and there will be more than enough profit , considering how much you saved by using your own labour , to pay for some champagne to celebrate . |
6 | Given the time it takes for non-experts to put up a house , the interest charges on your loan may eat considerably into the discount you capture by using your own labour , says Tuffin . |
7 | You could even have a do-it-yourself health farm treatment at home , by devoting your whole time to exercise , diet , sauna baths , or any of the programmes you would want from a health farm at about one-tenth of the cost . |
8 | You ca n't turn the clock back but with Potton 's help you can still make those dreams come true , recreating the warm cosy atmosphere of yesterday by building your own Heritage cottage . |
9 | You could go one stage further and extend the thought-flow chart by incorporating your own ideas into it . |
10 | By amortising your editorial expenditure over the extra 33 per cent of product in-fill you could save approximately £82.68 on your per-page cost . |
11 | That is true but unless you invest in the time to capture those skills , either by training your own staff or by hiring an external designer to show you how it 's done , it is almost inevitable that the quality of your published material will go down , not up . |
12 | What do you mean by saving your stupid oxen at the expense of my beautiful cow ! |
13 | A good way of starting to do this is to either join an already-existent writing class ( you can find one by looking on the noticeboard in your local library , telephoning the local Further , Adult or Higher Education Centre or contacting the nearest Workers ' Educational Association ) or , if there is n't one of these in your area , by forming your own writing group . |
14 | Begin by defining your main message . |
15 | Steve Richardson passes on a few tips on how to lower your scores by improving your on-course tactics . |
16 | You too can save lots of money by perming your own hair and there are several good home perms available on the market . |
17 | They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature . |
18 | But , however you begin , you should end up by sharing your own findings , your own views and conclusions with others . |
19 | If you plan to have cavity wall insulation installed , start by approaching your local authority Building control Officer for approval . |
20 | Please support Fiona Jones 's parents by asking your local MP to take up their cause . |
21 | Other ideas which might appeal are conservation work or playing a more active role in politics by joining your local party association . |
22 | SAVING GRACE : Cut costs by doing your own building work |
23 | By reinforcing your own dominance , you may well steal the thunder of the antagonists . |
24 | By lessening your own tension you help to relax others in your sphere ; relaxation and tension are infectious . |
25 | And if the principle works with man as well , then by spending your whole life in a cruising aircraft you might live to be a hundred . |
26 | It is reasonably easy to open the dog 's mouth by putting your left hand on either side of the upper jaw , while prizing the lower jaw apart with your other hand . |
27 | ‘ By making your best features look good , the bad bits tend to recede into the background . ’ |
28 | By making your own recordings you can pick topics and people that are relevant to your own students . |
29 | Feel your muscles working by placing your other hand on your hip or bottom . |
30 | There are even techniques for mirroring the other person 's non-verbal behaviours for the first few minutes of meeting them , and then testing whether rapport has been established by changing your visual behaviours to see whether the other person will reciprocate by mirroring yours . |