Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pron] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 2 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 3 | To give them the right to vote by absorbing them into one of the English constituencies and it could have easily been done . |
| 4 | At first it might appear simple to unravel a particular doubt by relating it to one of the seven broad categories , but first appearances are deceptive . |
| 5 | Using a skewer , make two holes in the carrot by pushing it in one side and out through the other . |
| 6 | Here , in the 103/4 , a much more extended frequency range is reproduced by supplementing it with one of KEF 's other major innovations , the coupled-cavity woofer system . |
| 7 | Tektronix says it designed the XP10T series of five terminals for high bandwidth and very high reliability — this has been achieved by placing everything on one board including the graphics , X , the local network logic and the local network cable connectors : there are no edge connectors . |
| 8 | Could she have missed it by mistaking it for one of the panelled wardrobes ? |
| 9 | She had just slammed the car door by hooking it with one foot , when Mrs Frizzell , with a similar brown-paper bag of groceries , came round the nearest corner on foot , having been to the local store . |