Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] himself by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 4 | He put his head out of the window and tried to clam himself by attempting to identify the night sounds . |
| 5 | He liked to introduce himself by saying : ‘ My name 's Walter Hagen . |
| 6 | ( As we have already noted , Herod attempted to legitimise himself by marrying a Maccabean princess , then proceeded to murder her and her sons , thus extinguishing the Maccabean line . ) |