Example sentences of "[v-ing] himself by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a man of action , revealing himself by deeds . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm obliged to you , ’ he murmured , seating himself by the fire and extending his hands . |
| 3 | Rune , having obeyed her command , was sitting motionless , contenting himself by regarding her steadily through half-closed eyes . |
| 4 | We are conscious of what Zuckerman does for Roth : when he helps a man to gather his spilt heart pills , it is Roth helping himself by assigning a small mercy . |
| 5 | Allegedly unhappy about the sanitation and the cockroaches but by his own admission surprising himself by pining for ‘ Kensington , Belgravia , phone boxes and iron railings ’ , Lawrence returned to Blighty and spent an extended sojourn in Windsor , where he assembled Denim around him . |
| 6 | He could n't stop torturing himself by examining the room 's new look from every angle . |
| 7 | He is intrinsically proud : this reveals itself through his habit of defining himself by telling you his achievements . |
| 8 | It is strange how so many of Palin 's characters , from Pythons ' Mr Gumby through to the stuttering animal-loving crook in Cleese 's A Fish Called Wanda , seemed to be based on his father , almost as if he was persecuting himself by playing infinite versions of the man . |
| 9 | Others , however , objected to the replacement of the Schools Council by two unelected bodies ; they saw dangers in the minister ‘ surrounding himself by people of one opinion ’ , and in the ‘ centralized patronage ’ which was said to characterize the new arrangements , and they detected the eclipse of the values of curriculum pluralism for which the Schools Council had stood . |
| 10 | The oriental did not flinch , but merely drew the two youngsters close together in front of him , effectively shielding himself by placing them between himself and the killing arc of the shotgun 's blast . |
| 11 | The gulls can see the help and benefit they receive from Iago 's service , but can not see , or conceive , that Iago could be benefiting himself at the same time ; and no one could possibly see that Iago is in fact benefiting himself by destroying them . |
| 12 | After joining in 1930 the Oriental Ceramic Society , founded in London a decade earlier , David had begun a career of scholarship with papers read to that body , distinguishing himself by identifying the imperial ru ware made between ad 1107 and 1127 . |
| 13 | The horses were being led and one of the men was limping badly and supporting himself by holding on to a stirrup . |
| 14 | Schlick 's murder in 1936 terminated Waismann 's employment and his opportunities for supporting himself by private teaching . |
| 15 | Petty probably died in London soon after the Restoration at the house of a brother in the legal profession , having himself by then settled at a property in Berkshire which the spendthrift republican MP Henry Marten [ q.v. ] had sold to trustees acting for John Wildman . |
| 16 | He also quit cocaine , busying himself by working in the prison library . |
| 17 | On the death of his father in 1894 , Bernard went to Manchester and found work as a ‘ property boy and paint-room drudge ’ , educating himself by reading , inter alia , John Locke and John Ruskin [ qq.v. ] , and practising drawing . |
| 18 | David was warming himself by a fire in the centre of the hut ; he was almost nude and had never worn anything other than a coarse blanket which was slightly tied round him to cover his back . |
| 19 | Did you hear about the plastic surgeon warming himself by the fire ? |
| 20 | He 'd put some more money in the meter and was warming himself by the newly-lit fire . |
| 21 | And , as in business he knew no way of earning by his own labour , so in his relationship with them he knew no means of restoring himself by his own effort . |
| 22 | Incidentally Ciccolini also plays several works for piano 4 hands , partnering himself by re-recording ! |