Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] by [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I involved myself by phoning the hotel to find out from the boss what was going on . |
| 2 | ‘ I amazed myself by ripping the ball at the flag . ’ |
| 3 | I consoled myself by drinking a lot of warm red Martini . |
| 4 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 5 | Afterwards I indulged myself by repeating the words several times . |
| 6 | As the buzz or the haze receded , and as I chewed the last tasteless fragment of sandwiched thermoplastic , I steadied myself by counting the melamine tables and counting the chairs and counting the customers and counting the sticky sauce bottles and the dome-shaped salt cellars and the cups , the plates , the cutlery , the ashtrays , anything in sight . |
| 7 | She contented herself by having the official offer letter framed . |
| 8 | To be named in Red Channels was to be unemployable … unless you cleared yourself by making a voluntary appearance before the House Committee or McCarthy 's Sub-Committee as a ‘ friendly witness ’ who shopped his former friends to prove the ‘ sincerity ’ of his repentance . |
| 9 | Unlike outright slaves , they maintained themselves by cultivating the land conditionally allotted to them by their master . |
| 10 | After a home game in the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Stadium im Prenzlauer Berg , they distinguished themselves by forming a 200-strong human swastika around the statues of Marx and Engels in front of the Volkskammer ( the old GDR parliament ) . |
| 11 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 12 | The young man 's brother wrote to Lord Panmure to see if David could make the best of the situation in which he found himself by obtaining a midshipman 's place . |
| 13 | He goaded himself by picturing the ageing President , grey-haired and frail . |
| 14 | Anyway , Jacob said that he could do the job better and more quickly if he paced himself by singing a lively hymn called ‘ Keep in Step with the Master ’ . |
| 15 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 16 | He needed no Bible to remind him of the life of Christ , and if ever he felt the need for a symbol upon which to concentrate his devotions , he satisfied himself by making the sign of the cross with his fingers . |
| 17 | He supported himself by painting the portraits of the distinguished people he met on the way , and in Japan he went off alone to live among the aboriginal Ainu . |
| 18 | When Edmund Wilson attended a performance of The Confidential Clerk , however , he found it " rudimentary " ; everyone in London seemed to agree with him but , he said , " respect for Eliot had made it impossible for anyone to commit himself by printing a sincere opinion " . |