Example sentences of "by [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It responds to this helpful adjustment by promptly inverting itself into the mock-dead posture . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | ‘ We have to help ourselves by never stretching ourselves to the limit when taking out a mortgage or borrowing money . ‘ |