Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , both Franca and Alison had , after initial suspicion , adopted Irina , at least as far as amusing themselves by helping her to spend money on having her hair done and buying clothes . |
| 2 | But if we listen to them carefully , it is evident that they parade their doubts not so much to resolve them as to evoke public sympathy and to gain that sense of identity which comes from subconsciously defining themselves by their problems . |
| 3 | What there is evidence of , however , is the hardship that some auditing firms are causing themselves by feeling forced to put in dangerously over-competitive bids . |
| 4 | The journey , by either route , is at least twelve thousand miles and the birds fly non-stop , sustaining themselves by diving into the sea for fish as they go . |
| 5 | They denied that TM was addictive or produced ‘ spiritual trips ’ , or that it was viewed as a way of saving themselves by their own efforts . |
| 6 | His colleagues and aspiring rivals watched him closely , measuring themselves by him and running breathlessly after in the directions he took . |
| 7 | A house was to be provided to receive those incapable of supporting themselves by reason of age , infirmity or disease ; to provide work for those who were capable of it ; to correct and punish the idle and profligate ; and to educate the infant poor in habits of industry and religion . |
| 8 | They rarely use the word ‘ I ’ , generally calling themselves by their own names , and they have difficulty in seeing themselves or other people as people , rather than objects . |
| 9 | All proceeds from this charter , which the locomotive owners are running themselves by courtesy of NSE , will go to ensure the continued main line career of Taw Valley . |
| 10 | Convention delegates marched through the streets of London committing themselves by ‘ all legitimate means ’ to bring about complete and immediate emancipation . |
| 11 | One of the more unusual pictures was a superbly painted scene of a nursery interior with two young girls warming themselves by the hearth by the rather underrated Gaston de Latouche . |
| 12 | An untapped telephone number was to be communicated to the gang , who would use it to pass on further details , identifying themselves by the same method they had used with Valesio . |
| 13 | Only by being more actively involved in identifying issues , organizing action , and thereby helping themselves by fighting for their own rights , can older people hope to improve matters . |
| 14 | Post-war criticism was ‘ gladiatorial ’ , as John Wain remarked years later , in 1972 , when the excitement had died down ; and attractive to the young for just that reason , since the young feed on moral drama : ‘ they need to feel that they are proving themselves by bravely attacking something powerful . ’ |
| 15 | But the Welsh , because they have n't won a Major professional event , keep proving themselves by winning Amateur Championships . |
| 16 | The list shows how easy it was at the time ( 1860 ) to raise money for a line intended to run from Craven Arms to Montgomery , and what a number of persons , sufficiently well-disposed to the district to advance such large sums would be deprived of all chance of recouping themselves by completing the line , if the policy of closing it was adopted . |
| 17 | One in eight people who are seriously depressed er end up killing themselves by suicide . |
| 18 | They have slightly relaxed their demands for absolute obedience to the rules and do not think they are demeaning themselves by giving reasons for their ‘ do 's ’ and ‘ don'ts ’ . |