Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has also stood Marx on his head , by transforming itself from a classless society into a caste society ( if at the same time gratifying Lenin 's hope that the intermediate stage of class society might be bypassed ) . |
| 2 | Prince Albert , who did much to promote a concern for working-class housing , not least by dying himself from typhoid , gave his name to a model building for four families which , although again intended for artisans , had been rejected as too ambitious by the organizers of the Great Exhibition ( Fig. 37 ) . |
| 3 | Masochistically subjecting himself to punishment in a gymnasium , incurring injury by hurling himself from windows or roofs , he achieves final atonement through an Italian hitman 's bullet . |
| 4 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |
| 5 | If the Communists were steadily driven out of the Labour Party and expedited the process by withdrawing themselves from the official levels of the labour movement , the Independent Labour Party drifted uncertainly into opposition to the Labour leadership and finally expelled itself from the party it had helped to found . |
| 6 | By absenting himself from her court , by this final and suicidal invisibility , he has denied her her heart 's desire . |
| 7 | ‘ You will have demonstrated that you are his servant , for by removing yourself from the court at such a crucial hour you will have proved to him that he was right to trust you . ’ |
| 8 | In speeches delivered by him during a four-day visit to Catalonia in January , he called for unity and solidarity ; yet , at the same time , he himself kept the in-fighting going by distancing himself from Serrano while cultivating Arrese . |
| 9 | Most of them adapted by distancing themselves from their homes , from the attitudes and habits of their parents . |
| 10 | By distancing themselves from the use of violence , the Islamist leaders hoped to move towards eventual legalization of the party . |
| 11 | He might start by transferring himself from the wheelchair across onto a seat in the bath , and washing himself sitting up . |
| 12 | Shortly before the war , she had committed suicide by throwing herself from the bridge into the path of a train . |
| 13 | For by freeing themselves from war , the great Catholic powers were freeing themselves to attack the heretics , and attack they did . |