Example sentences of "[vb base] himself by " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 2 | He would get to know the cook and ingratiate himself by being agreeable and doing her favours . |
| 3 | He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below . |
| 4 | Help her , or help himself by warning his friend how much she knew ? |
| 5 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 6 | An honest man will come to the house and call the name of the person inside , and in this way identify himself by his voice . |