Example sentences of "themselves by [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terrible times had rendered individuals impotent ; many Jews consoled themselves by clinging to any available straw and concealed themselves behind bastions of casuistry . |
| 2 | Like most works that over-reach themselves by striving for unattainable seriousness they are probably simply bad . |
| 3 | Users of injecting drugs can protect themselves by looking at a range of options for drug use other than injecting . |
| 4 | Officials from the highest to the lowest subsidized themselves by creaming off state revenue and taking bribes — a modern version of Muscovy 's ‘ feeding ’ system . |
| 5 | The true owner or owners would have to reveal themselves by going to court to have it removed . |
| 6 | Braggarts can help themselves by working on responding to signals that other people use , looking and listening . |
| 7 | Having given up hope of a career , they have doubts about the future and support themselves by working in ‘ low pay , low prestige , low benefit jobs in the service industry ’ or ‘ McJobs ’ . |
| 8 | Whereas they expose themselves by coming to power , he can remain concealed indefinitely . |
| 9 | Only by being more actively involved in identifying issues , organizing action , and thereby helping themselves by fighting for their own rights , can older people hope to improve matters . |
| 10 | . All too often they discredit themselves by engaging in character assassination … and by their transparent acceptance of bad research when it happens to suit their case . ’ |
| 11 | No more will they be called upon to prove themselves by engaging in certain prescribed activities and no longer need they safeguard their hard-won reputations . |
| 12 | It was a process of automatic writing such as she had heard tell of in the sillier drawing-rooms of the county where idle men and women amused and , she suspected , sometimes alarmed themselves by tinkering in realms they did not understand ; except that this was very different , for the entirety of her intellect was engaged . |
| 13 | The journey , by either route , is at least twelve thousand miles and the birds fly non-stop , sustaining themselves by diving into the sea for fish as they go . |
| 14 | The Dodger and Charley Bates , not wanting to attract attention to themselves by running down the street , had stopped round the first corner . |