Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then his strength grew , marshalled and propelled itself by means of legs and arms and shortly his pace quickened , he was moving upwards once more . |
| 2 | ‘ Come along in Katie and sit yourself by the fire . |
| 3 | When I was scared in the middle of the night at home , I 'd lie and comfort myself by talking in whispers to Somebody . |
| 4 | What he is trying to describe , and to find terms to name , is what would later be called ‘ existential awareness ’ , an awareness which includes and involves ourselves by contrast with any more or less detached knowledge of facts and truths quite external to ourselves . |
| 5 | John assured me that it did n't matter in the least , and amused himself by taxying the machine up and down the runways , testing and running-in the VW engine at the same time . |
| 6 | Everyone still standing , and that was at least half the passengers , did a little backwards dance and righted themselves by the simple expedient of taking hold of the person or object closest to them . |
| 7 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 8 | ‘ It might take a letter a week to get to Germany , might n't it ? ’ said Mrs Fanshawe , taking her rings off and amusing herself by making them flash in the sunlight right into Nurse Rose 's eyes . |
| 9 | ‘ My poor dears , come and warm yourselves by the fire . |
| 10 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 11 | I stick the fire on in my room and warm myself by it for a bit . |
| 12 | A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body . |
| 13 | During his time at Bristol he held one of the University 's Organ Scholarships based at St Paul 's Church , Clifton , and distinguished himself by winning most of the important prizes offered by the Royal College of Organists . |
| 14 | He would get to know the cook and ingratiate himself by being agreeable and doing her favours . |
| 15 | Having given up hope of a career , they have doubts about the future and support themselves by working in ‘ low pay , low prestige , low benefit jobs in the service industry ’ or ‘ McJobs ’ . |
| 16 | How easy is it to show concern for school work when a beloved father takes you to school in the morning and kills himself by midday ? |
| 17 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 18 | Then the minister deigned to appear and defended himself by saying he had once come out to a stranger who called , but the man proved to be ‘ a little worth person ’ . |
| 19 | He resented the implied criticism , and defended himself by saying he merely gave her a book which he happened to have with him , rather than one he felt suitable for such a person . |
| 20 | This is inflammation and infection of the breast which sometimes follows cracked nipples and shows itself by pain , redness of a part or the whole breast , swelling , and fever . |
| 21 | He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below . |
| 22 | My personal belief is that sadism may have one or both of two components : a need to dominate — to put another person into an inferior position and to assert oneself by inflicting pain — or a need to destroy arising from some inner hatred of self and/or others in general . |
| 23 | She felt numb and tired and surprised herself by managing to sleep deeply and well . |
| 24 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 25 | Some animals you cut turfs of little bits of turf out and you put in the , in the corner of the box and they , they lick that and amuse themselves by eating it bit by bit . |
| 26 | The horses were being led and one of the men was limping badly and supporting himself by holding on to a stirrup . |
| 27 | The wretched man made his way to Brighton where after one bungled attempt he walked off the pier and killed himself by drowning . |
| 28 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 29 | Cranston lost his sour look and satisfied himself by glancing sardonically at Athelstan as he sipped daintily from the wine cup . |
| 30 | They returned to the front room and , after a light tea of eggs and toast , Willie changed for bed and positioned himself by the armchair , next to Tom . |