Example sentences of "[vb -s] himself by " in BNC.
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| 1 | She exacerbates all his old anxieties and feelings of ambivalence towards ‘ mothers ’ , and because he can not cope , he defends himself by ignoring her as far as possible . |
| 2 | Disappointed , he returns to his rooms and consoles himself by looking through his collection of photographs of ten boys he has loved . |
| 3 | But in the third and final part of his expectations , Pip redeems himself by his loyalty towards Magwitch and his attempt to make things up to Joe and Biddy and his pursuit of the truth . |
| 4 | He grooms himself by touch : he favours an electric razor and does his own barbering with a brutal pair of kitchen scissors . |
| 5 | Bradley measures himself by ( HAS Feb 19 ) when suggesting members of churches no longer adhere to strict rules . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | In an imagined interview at the Labour Exchange , the protagonist claims that he has only been ‘ spasmodically in labour ’ , then immediately corrects himself by rephrasing the slip as ‘ employed intermittently ’ ( 19/21 ) . |
| 8 | Having excoriated the foolish historians and orientalists , however , Enzensberger nonetheless contradicts himself by rhetorical resort to a vague history . |
| 9 | He judges himself by being better . |
| 10 | He finds himself by looking in the works of others . |
| 11 | The normal interpretation of ( 165 ) does not imply that everyone actually pays his taxes : the sentence simply evokes a state of obligation in which every individual finds himself by virtue of the law . |
| 12 | Conran never really switches off from work , because he surrounds himself by objects that are beautifully designed . |
| 13 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 14 | In the end the Profitboss helps himself by helping others . |
| 15 | ‘ I ’ , ‘ me ’ or ‘ mine ’ are words that are frequently heard in the classroom , as a child proudly announces that he has ‘ built a big tower ’ or ‘ got one like that ’ , or as he asserts himself by virtue of possession , ‘ That 's mine ’ . |
| 16 | A male settles close to a female and identifies himself by vibrating his wings to the rhythm of his love song . |
| 17 | It is Grant who , in her most original story , The Daughter of Time ( 1951 ) , satisfies himself by reading and reason while immobilized in hospital that the infamous Richard III of Shakespeare , school history books , and folk memory is a Tudor fabrication . |
| 18 | He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends . |
| 19 | The truly empathetic New Man positions himself by the head of his partner 's bed , knows when to go for a walk in the park and , reverting to a traditional male role , protects the woman from unwanted intruders . |