Example sentences of "by [verb] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a damp cigarette in the shelter of a doorway — but there was nothing to be gained by hanging about here and I set off , squelching at every step , along the road to Shiel Bridge . |
| 2 | He never knew what these special things were and tried to find out by sneaking down there at night , but the shed door was always locked . |
| 3 | The third option will require the TECs to boost their incomes by gobbling up as many government programmes and grants as they can find . |
| 4 | Egalitarian feminist psychology analyses traditional psychology 's errors and omissions about gender , and hopes to correct them by bringing in more female psychologists , extending male-oriented psychological work to include women , and adjusting existing procedures and theories . |
| 5 | By appearing in only the Sunday episode of Not So Much a Programme , Crawford had been able to continue with other work , which included a run of The Striplings on stage at the New Arts Theatre Club , in London . |
| 6 | Japan will take America by surprise by storming in early one morning and buying Pearl Harbor . |
| 7 | Otherwise we 'll be up to our necks with toffs in monocles and deer-stalkers all of 'em trailing manservants and frightening the cows and horses by blasting around in they great green Bentleys they all drive . ’ |
| 8 | They can reproduce vegetatively by budding off asexually to form daughter polyps in the same manner as a plant grows . |
| 9 | Spare Rib was already well established , and was joined for a period by the Leveller , another collective magazine , and the East End News , which produced the first attempt to appeal to ‘ the masses ’ of East London by dressing up Right-On concerns in chirpy Chas'n'Dave-style modernized Cockney . |
| 10 | The first indicates the range of entries you want to change by filling in only some of the fields . |
| 11 | PETER REID is about to become a vital part of the new Manchester City regime by teaming up again with Howard Kendall . |
| 12 | In one of these movements , the duet and chorus ‘ Hymen , appear ! ’ towards the end of Act 5 , he began by writing out only the chorus soprano part and the two solo soprano parts that alternate with the chorus . |
| 13 | You make yourself cough more by lying down there . |
| 14 | So the changes appear to be , from what you are saying , first of all towards integrating children with special needs in the educational system , rather than by separating off perhaps just a very small number , a recognition perhaps that special needs extend on a broader base |
| 15 | He told them that by turning off here , the company they were following would almost certainly be heading for upper Teviotdale , by Rankilburn , Buccleuch and Bellenden , since the Ettrick valley would merely bring them back to its junction with Yarrow again . |
| 16 | This argument is particularly relevant to Britain where the government has tried to foster wider share ownership by selling off formerly nationalised industries . |
| 17 | Disadvantages : If there 's a last-minute emergency , you may find yourself without a sitter ; you have to watch out that neither side abuses the bargain you 've made by going out far more than the other . |
| 18 | Student union leaders at both Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores Universities stressed that students should not make themselves a target by going out alone . |
| 19 | Return to Corso di Porta Romana by going back up Via San Calimero , and go right to see two churches that are little visited . |
| 20 | No I wished I 'd I probably would have er overcome come that actually now by going back there but he got over that |
| 21 | Yesterday the Bank of England raised around £3 billion by getting up early and cashing in on the market 's victory leap . |
| 22 | Begin by getting up out of that armchair and , with pencil and paper , find yourself a nice clear desk and a comfortable but upright seat . |
| 23 | Berg responded by getting up too , saying he must go but popping in another question as he backed towards the door . |
| 24 | I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower . |
| 25 | By getting in early , we hope to get an edge on the competition . ’ |
| 26 | By moving out wide , Deane invariably takes out a tall defender — which presumably leaves more space for people like Speed to move into . |
| 27 | You 're making the room even hotter by moving about so much and you 're waking everybody up , not just me . |
| 28 | Of course we knew he was a celebrated painter , everyone did , and I think the neighbourhood felt quite disappointed when by moving down here he became less celebrated . |
| 29 | The Hydro Board were playing tunes with their dams , and did a great deal to lessen the impact by holding back as much water as they could . |
| 30 | Despite this , only Bradford was actually gained by the party , and many Labour votes were in a sense wasted by piling up even higher in areas where the party were already dominant . |