Example sentences of "all by [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With reference to the official statistics , Durkheim did this first of all by regarding the rates compiled by officials in the pursuance of their routine duties as not so much a simple factual registration of certain types of death , but as indicators of a " suicidogenic " current caused by various states of society itself . |
| 2 | Doing as she had bid herself , she walked into the cottage and then spoilt it all by slamming the door . |
| 3 | Neighbour Stuart Partlett said : ‘ We 're hoping he gets the all-clear and shows them all by taking the gold . |
| 4 | ‘ of atrocious memory , who courted and married fourteen wives , and destroyed them all by tickling the soles of their feet when they was sleeping in the consciousness of innocence and virtue ’ . |
| 5 | Critics have drooled and dribbled over her out-of-this-world beauty and wide , spacey blue eyes , but now Kim Basinger is confounding them all by playing the title creature-from-another-planet in My Stepmother Is An Alien . |