Example sentences of "[prep] themselves by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 2 | Although encircled by the Dwarfs , half starved and weary from the march , the Orcs gave a good account of themselves by fighting their way out of the trap and out-distancing the Dwarfs . |
| 3 | CBHPs aim to help build self-reliant communities in health , defining a truly self-reliant community as one that is ‘ built on the peoples ’ capacity to take care of themselves by tapping and developing local and external human and material resources ’ . |
| 4 | The problems of agency are of themselves by no means insignificant in the professional preoccupations of any lawyer endowed with a respectable commercial practice . |
| 5 | Innocent was the first pope to proclaim publicly that he was the vicar of Christ — a title that had been used previously of themselves by the Byzantine emperors and by the Emperor Henry III ( d. 1056 ) . |
| 6 | A further paternalistic argument is that a law restricting consent helps to protect individual citizens from themselves by counteracting some of the social pressures and shame which might otherwise occur . |
| 7 | He said he wanted to eliminate the ‘ schlechtes polnisches zeug ’ , the bad Polish stuff , and he claimed that the Poles had brought this upon themselves by refusing to accept the new Prussian authority with good grace . |
| 8 | But Coun Szintai criticised the Salvation Army for suggesting that some people brought the problem upon themselves by spending cash on smoking and drinking . |
| 9 | Left to themselves by the German bourgeoisie — because in German usage ‘ sister ’ was the accepted genteelism for ‘ mistress ’ — the Wordsworths declined into misery and homesickness . |
| 10 | Hit and run were the tactics , the Australians preferring to kill five or six Japanese than risk casualties to themselves by tarrying longer to kill more enemy in one skirmish . |
| 11 | Patrons attach clients to themselves by extending loans to the latter in times of crisis . |
| 12 | Micrografx staff drew attention to themselves by wandering around in gear stolen from the Mexican extras in a spaghetti western . |
| 13 | It was a simple code whereby his friends were able to determine his presence without attracting attention to themselves by actually going into the shop . |
| 14 | The Dodger and Charley Bates , not wanting to attract attention to themselves by running down the street , had stopped round the first corner . |
| 15 | It is uncertain , however , that the motives ascribed to themselves by MacRoberts and MacRoberts are common to others . |
| 16 | The writers of fabliaux commonly draw attention to themselves by naming themselves , signing their work at beginning or end , and they don a limited number of disguises as their narratorial personae — as in the case of Boivin de Provins described above . |
| 17 | But taxpayers can improve the benefit of their subscription at no extra cost to themselves by making a covenant . |
| 18 | A further controversy was over whether the girls could be considered to have brought the rape on themselves by being out at night . |
| 19 | It can take months for the violence to subside , they take it out on themselves by punching the walls or scratching their wrists . |
| 20 | It is true that during the match the Linfield fans created trouble , but it was among themselves by throwing bottles at each other . |
| 21 | The small but relatively well paid labour force is kept separate from the garbage pickers who are further divided between themselves by intense competition . |
| 22 | The most subtle strategy available to a teacher is that of teacher-in-role , for this device is flexible enough to have any one of the three functions ; it can take the pupils ' attention off themselves by allowing them passively or actively to use teacher 's role as a projection , or it can be non-projective and challenge the pupils to interact . |
| 23 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |
| 24 | Sometimes they made weapons for themselves by bedding razor-blades in potatoes . |
| 25 | In one town , however , second wave fundholders had been told to fend for themselves by those in the first wave . |
| 26 | Conductors could make some money for themselves by selling lists of well-known passengers on their trains to representatives of the Associated Press . |
| 27 | The ultimate principle of the welfare state is well summarized by a French resistance declaration demanding ‘ a complete plan of social security , designed to secure the means of existence for all French men and women wherever they are incapable of providing such means for themselves by working ’ ( quoted Saint-Jours , 1982 , p. 122 ) . |
| 28 | After explaining his love of art , he gave the police the opportunity to see some classic paintings for themselves by directing them to his parent 's house in Lyons where they recovered the Renoir and several other works . |
| 29 | Sad , is n't it , when a human being can only feel good about themselves by being unpleasant to other people ? |