Example sentences of "tried [to-vb] [pn reflx] by " 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 | During her last imprisonment in Holloway in 1911–12 , when several hundred women were being forcibly fed , she thought her death would end this mass torture and tried to kill herself by throwing herself downstairs ; although seriously injured , she survived . |
| 4 | I tried to distract myself by concentrating on Jamila . |
| 5 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He put his head out of the window and tried to clam himself by attempting to identify the night sounds . |
| 8 | The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate myself by asking who was her favourite composer . |