Example sentences of "[pron] by [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our culture , which sets such a high premium on self-enrichment ( in every sense ) , the robust , emotive and expressive aspects of soul act as a sort of therapy , helping us to ‘ liberate ’ ourselves by getting back in touch with ourselves , opening up , unblocking , becoming more functional and therefore ( it runs ) more ‘ free ’ . |
| 2 | The last remark is odd : her half-brother Charles certainly killed himself by jumping off a bridge , and it is unlikely that the deaths of her sisters ‘ Topsy ’ and ‘ Baby ’ were due to an accidental overdose of veronal . |
| 3 | She said there was no way her husband of 46 years would have killed himself by jumping off his luxury yacht . |
| 4 | It was on this stretch of line near Didcot that William McCrae tried to kill himself by jumping off a train travelling at nearly seventy miles an hour . |
| 5 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 6 | A YOUNG man went into a mad panic and told a friend he had ‘ lobotomised ’ himself by taking too much ecstacy , shortly before he died . |
| 7 | Leaving the university , he kept himself by teaching privately and lecturing , and then produced his first scientific paper at the age of 22 . |
| 8 | The horses were being led and one of the men was limping badly and supporting himself by holding on to a stirrup . |
| 9 | Cranston lost his sour look and satisfied himself by glancing sardonically at Athelstan as he sipped daintily from the wine cup . |
| 10 | He redeemed himself by sending over a good cross for P Reid to put the Olympic in front . |
| 11 | He had made her suffer and further imprisoned himself by doing so . |
| 12 | The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon the law , or rather a tendency , or let us say a probability , or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance , which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often . |
| 13 | During Andrew and Fergie 's wedding preparations in June , Charles causes raised eyebrows himself by appearing completely uncaring when Diana faints at the opening of the Expo exhibition in Vancouver . |
| 14 | She did n't love her husband , or even have any great affection for him , but she was mindful of the predicament in which he had placed himself by marrying so far beneath him , and she was going to make certain he never had cause to be ashamed of her . |
| 15 | A friend of mine concussed himself by bending over to splash his face in the basin and cracking his head on a cabinet as he straightened up . |
| 16 | He surprised himself by talking aloud : ‘ A nice cup of tea , that 's what I need . ’ |
| 17 | Then one night they all disappeared , 'cos t' farmers an' their wives kep' forgettin' to say thank you by puttin' out cake an' milk for yum . |
| 18 | So , of course you might be running into trouble by doing too much , by being over-zealous and when you do things , or you may also be inviting criticism and inviting the , the great fickle hand of of bureaucratic power down upon you by doing too little too late , and that 's often the , that 's often the criticism which people in your profession and several other professions get accused of . |
| 19 | In just promoting ideal conditions in the reef aquarium for sessile invertebrates , such subjects as anemones and soft corals can reward you by reproducing asexually either by polyp division or budding . |
| 20 | But now suppose that you know I am behind the tree , you are expecting me to leap out , and I know you know all that : I can still ( maybe ) frighten you by leaping out , just by getting you to realize that I intend to frighten you . |
| 21 | The echidna , Australia 's spiny anteater , protects itself by digging rapidly downwards until its soft underside is completely hidden and its enemy is offered only a sea of powerful , sharp spikes . |
| 22 | The most consistently outspoken broadsides against the old Establishment came from the Institute of Directors , a once moribund association of small businessmen and oddball intellectuals , which revived itself by taking up Thatcherism almost before the term had been coined . |
| 23 | According to Lovins , ‘ the equipment more than pays for itself by costing less to maintain ’ . |
| 24 | However , it should not be allowed to continue making a nuisance of itself by jumping up at a visitor while they are sitting down . |
| 25 | These implications are explored in some detail in the next chapter , but in this one I want to elaborate a little on the model itself by considering more closely how it bears upon certain current issues in the pedagogy of language teaching . |
| 26 | This is done within the programme itself by using very restricted examples of language and by recycling these examples through the programme and through the course in a range of different short scenes . |
| 27 | After this he can carry any other vector parallel to itself by travelling along a geodesic and keeping the local vector at a constant angle to the geodesic . |
| 28 | Cricket , in essence , stifled itself by remaining too true to its pre-industrial origins . ’ |
| 29 | However , far more significant in explaining the failure of the bid was the decision of BAT to ‘ unbundle ’ itself by selling off its paper and retailing interests ( refer to Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 30 | We were cut to pieces by Watford , though the defence did not help itself by defending too deeply . |