Example sentences of "and [verb] themselves by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone still standing , and that was at least half the passengers , did a little backwards dance and righted themselves by the simple expedient of taking hold of the person or object closest to them . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Some animals you cut turfs of little bits of turf out and you put in the , in the corner of the box and they , they lick that and amuse themselves by eating it bit by bit . |
| 4 | During my early career , for instance , when one of the shift was caught and sentenced for a string of burglaries , the others skirted around their implicit knowledge that ‘ there but for the grace of God goes everyone ’ , and comforted themselves by recalling ( with the aid of the hindsight-ometer ) that he had ‘ never been a real polis … always been a bit of a loner , something of an outsider … ’ |
| 5 | The original Warwickshire lord and his huntsmen have been replaced by groups of young Sloanes who identify the sleeping Sly as ‘ probably working-class ’ and divert themselves by ‘ messing around with his mind a bit ’ . |
| 6 | His aunt had always kept the door locked , fearing that children might venture into the mill and hurt themselves by tumbling down the ladders . |