Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was inspired and strengthened by seeing herself not as a passive victim , or a cancer patient , but as an individual working for her own health and well-being . |
| 2 | Being inauthentic ( ‘ feeling false ’ ) comes from ignoring or denying life 's contradictions , perhaps by attaching oneself exclusively to objects which do not involve the sort of deep relationships or beliefs that can give personal pain as well as joy . |
| 3 | This will enable the court , if it so wishes , to express particular interest in one point , in which case you should of course respond by devoting yourself chiefly to it . |
| 4 | This involves ‘ redrawing the boundaries of semantics/pragmatics ’ , in other words recognising that meaning can not be understood by addressing ourselves only to formal , syntactic processes : ‘ pragmatics ’ , the study of why and how utterances are used , has to be included within the study of what the utterances mean , and how their semantic load is constructed and regularised . |
| 5 | Her brother earned his living by hiring himself out to whoever needed his services on the island . |
| 6 | When war breaks out , he becomes separated from his relatives , but manages to survive the war by passing himself off as a German soldier of Aryan origin . |
| 7 | And by limiting ourselves specifically to stylistic alternatives , we can pinpoint the inferences from the text which are the basis of literary appreciation . |
| 8 | Rita decided to quell her anxieties , after hearing about an amnesty program for illegal immigrants , by turning herself in to immigration authorities . |
| 9 | For the rest of the match he proceeded to annoy me and my fellow spectators by positioning himself right between us and the action . |
| 10 | The first is that by positioning himself conspicuously behind a veil , the Resident could leave the population in a state of desirable uncertainty about the degree of influence he actually exercised over their emir : his advice was not seen to be taken , but neither was it seen to be rejected . |
| 11 | A group in the chaotic stage tries to overcome uncertainty and ambiguity by flinging itself headlong into the task in hand without giving enough , if any , attention to the process . |
| 12 | But not for long , for they make another pledge by tying themselves together in a cat 's cradle . |
| 13 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 14 | Instead they fought the corner for multi-racial sport by taking themselves off to Zwide , a township near Port Elizabeth ( see pages 38 and 39 ) , where they held a coaching clinic for black and coloured youngsters . |
| 15 | ‘ Sweet darling , ’ he murmured , and kissed all hurt she had felt away before , shaking his head , he said self-mockingly , ‘ And I thought that by taking myself off to Prague I might get you out of my thoughts . ’ |
| 16 | Would we not have repeated the errors of 1914 by involving ourselves again in that region ? |
| 17 | This , to his great astonishment , caused a considerable disturbance ; and when he inquired what the people meant by putting themselves out over a black man , an Englishman who was passing answered : ‘ Well , perhaps you do n't know it , but you have just thrown one of Her Majesty 's judges out of the train . ’ ’ |
| 18 | So , in JUST LIKE A WOMAN ( Cert 15 ; General ) , it 's a bit of a relief when Gerald ( Adrian Pasdar ) finally admits he gets his kicks out of dressing as a woman — and proves the point by making himself up into the gorgeous Geraldine in front of her . |
| 19 | The rock-climber is held on a rope by clipping himself on to a harness thingy ( if you 've come to this book for technical information , boy are you going to be disappointed ) that straps round his thighs and crotch , so as a quick guide to who the climbers are in the pub , just watch for those who seem to be constantly fiddling around in their genital area . |
| 20 | An 'A'-Level Art student has invented a new style of sculpture … by wrapping himself up in chicken wire . |
| 21 | I can cover the issue by associating myself wholly with the speeches by my hon. Friends the Members for Saffron Walden ( Mr. Haselhurst ) and for Crawley ( Mr. Soames ) , who said precisely what I think . |
| 22 | The windows up here were waist-high , but very deep , and she found that by lifting herself up into the actual narrow embrasure , and leaning precariously forward , she could get a limited view of the clearing below . |
| 23 | He broke his neck by throwing himself down on top of the reactor . ’ |
| 24 | The result is that , whereas , for the passive reader , the novel effectively ends with Oliveira seemingly about to commit suicide by throwing himself out of a window , the active reader goes beyond this to the understanding that Oliveira 's jump into the void is a metaphorical leap into a metaphysical state , where conventional categories are abolished and dualistic contradictions reconciled . |
| 25 | Some caterpillars manage to startle their attackers by raising themselves up like small snakes . |
| 26 | He later found out that a clerk named Winter had committed suicide in the cellar by shooting himself just near the spot where Durham saw him . |