Example sentences of "[pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ As a new young photographer , he was being given a great opportunity and he could have spoilt things for himself by using me . ’ |
| 32 | He had even tried to stretch himself by hanging from the limb of a tree by his hands until the skin on his palms was blistered . |
| 33 | He is intrinsically proud : this reveals itself through his habit of defining himself by telling you his achievements . |
| 34 | While in Scotland he also learned to fly , paying for the lessons himself by repairing the cars belonging to richer Arab students at weekends . |
| 35 | It is Grant who , in her most original story , The Daughter of Time ( 1951 ) , satisfies himself by reading and reason while immobilized in hospital that the infamous Richard III of Shakespeare , school history books , and folk memory is a Tudor fabrication . |
| 36 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 37 | He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends . |
| 38 | From himself by spitting or masturbation Atum produced two children , male and female , Shu ( air ) and Tefnut ( moisture ) . |
| 39 | The Gnostics could not believe that in Christ the eternal God could have polluted himself by taking flesh and enduring crucifixion ; in the first epistle of John this denial is directly combated . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The point here is that the first purchaser can safeguard himself by taking immediate delivery and not leaving the goods or documents of title with the seller . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Leaving the university , he kept himself by teaching privately and lecturing , and then produced his first scientific paper at the age of 22 . |
| 44 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 45 | He finds himself by looking in the works of others . |
| 46 | Rob consoled himself by dating several women before embarking on a six-week fling with Princess Stephanie . |
| 47 | The horses were being led and one of the men was limping badly and supporting himself by holding on to a stirrup . |
| 48 | Help her , or help himself by warning his friend how much she knew ? |
| 49 | Cranston lost his sour look and satisfied himself by glancing sardonically at Athelstan as he sipped daintily from the wine cup . |
| 50 | On another occasion he bravely went on to the roof to assess the wind damage to his television aerial but slipped and just managed to save himself by clinging to the guttering — not however , before dislodging a slate which bulleted downward and sliced its way effortlessly into the bonnet of his neighbour 's brand new car to form a kind of dorsal fin . |
| 51 | He had bought some time for himself by refusing to answer any questions till he had heard the tape . |
| 52 | And he did n't endear himself by refusing three penalties to Deane . |
| 53 | He tells the world that he was the sole survivor of the original wreck , and that he has sustained himself by eating berries , leaves and roots . |
| 54 | In September he tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists . |
| 55 | After his retirement , I might try to persuade him to enjoy himself by accompanying me to whatever seaside resort the Conservative party attends for its conference next October — I will ensure his safety of passage into the hall — so that he can see how few pinstripe suits there are , let alone the mythical hats of which he spoke . |
| 56 | Next up was a hard-looking fellow I remembered as one of the surviving Africa veterans , a prodigal who 'd been seduced by Martinho but had redeemed himself by daring and sacrifice under Osvaldo — I was surprised he was still alive . |
| 57 | He comforted himself by assuming that she was just a mother-figure to the young man and there could n't possibly be any sex in it . |
| 58 | In arable districts most usable lad must already have been taken up , and with the commons jealously guarded by farmers to whom they were essential for keeping the animals on which cultivation depended , the landless man stood a better chance of carving a niche for himself by drifting to a less-developed , mainly pastoral terrain . |
| 59 | John assured me that it did n't matter in the least , and amused himself by taxying the machine up and down the runways , testing and running-in the VW engine at the same time . |
| 60 | In the end the Profitboss helps himself by helping others . |