Example sentences of "by [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Volvo , the European Tour 's main benefactor , had accused the leading money winners of disloyalty by not committing themselves to the end-of-season showpiece , the Volvo Masters in Spain .
2 It responds to this helpful adjustment by promptly inverting itself into the mock-dead posture .
3 He did n't know why he had come , hated himself for coming , but had by now tormented himself into a state of mind where he was deliberately looking for fresh spasms of anguish .
4 Both parties adopted the name League of Communists — Party of Democratic Change , and announced that the LCY could only survive by embracing a clearly-defined democratic reform policy and by radically restructuring itself as a confederation of independent parties .
5 When Hank was fifteen , his best friend , Tommy Moore , committed suicide by quietly dropping himself off the railway bridge into the icy waters of the North Saskatchewan .
6 ‘ We have to help ourselves by never stretching ourselves to the limit when taking out a mortgage or borrowing money . ‘
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