Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chief Executive Neville Chamberlain said : ‘ We have concerned ourselves with environmental care for many years and are proud of our achievements so far . |
| 2 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 3 | While her husband occupied himself with making mental notes as to his proposed victim 's physical constitution and disposition of character , Cleo amused herself with Lorimer , communicating with him by pulling delightful impish faces and fluttering her hands . |
| 4 | Hewlett , author of The Queen 's Quair , brings to mind another writer who had similarly concerned himself with Mary Queen of Scots ( ‘ La Stuarda ’ ) — that is to say , Swinburne in his Mary Stuart . |
| 5 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 6 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 7 | ‘ He seems to have surrounded himself with every comfort ; but that is hardly surprising , if he has stayed here all the week for ten years . ’ |
| 8 | Admiral Jonathan Howe , the American who is the UN secretary-general 's representative in Somalia , and thus the UN 's top man , has surrounded himself with advisers from the State Department , ‘ psy-ops ’ from the CIA , retired colonels from the special forces and military academics from everywhere . |
| 9 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |
| 10 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 11 | It has surrounded itself with a region from which nothing — absolutely nothing — can escape . |
| 12 | The headache appeared to have resolved itself with analgesic . |
| 13 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 14 | The CNAA , in its desire to ensure that the courses which it validates are of a sufficiently high standard , has necessarily concerned itself with the resources and ethos of institutions as a whole and has not hesitated to pass judgment on them , going , some would argue , beyond the responsibilities laid upon it by its Royal Charter . |
| 15 | In practice though , research within this framework has concerned itself with " patterns of linguistic behaviour " as made manifest , for example , through narrative or in interviews , rather than looking in detail at conversational encounters . |
| 16 | The latest investigations also relate to incidents in 1988 when Mrs Mandela had returned to Soweto after years of banishment by the authorities to a remote town in the Orange Free State and had surrounded herself with a bodyguard of ‘ football club ’ thugs . |
| 17 | The pantry displays examples of all the home-made preserves the farmer 's wife would have busied herself with . |
| 18 | ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’ |
| 19 | Only in the Empress 's own apartments was there any sign of normality , where Eugénie had installed herself with her personal maid , her secretary and a handful of courtiers who had come from Saint Cloud to be with her . |
| 20 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 21 | Someone must always have discharged these duties ; but the mention of these officials in eleventh-century households pointed to two developments : firstly , a conscious imitation of Carolingian ways ( for Charlemagne and his heirs had surrounded themselves with seneschals and stewards ) , and secondly , a revived interest in administration . |
| 22 | ‘ The staff have really shown their skills in producing this range of foods , ’ said Janet , ‘ and on special occasions , such as Christmas and Easter , they have excelled themselves with superb cakes and eggs . ’ |
| 23 | The centre of the discussion was the school curriculum ; and it was frequently observed at the time that this was the first occasion on which politicians or the public at large had concerned themselves with what had hitherto been a wholly professional matter . |
| 24 | It is this portability aspect of programs , and the conventional hardware — software distinction that goes with it , that has most interested those in AI who have concerned themselves with the relation of brains to minds : there has been an easy temptation to exploit the hardware — software distinction as a model of the brain — mind distinction . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , most studies have concerned themselves with ill effect , notably that of emotional stress . |
| 26 | Western institutional theorists have concerned themselves with the problem of ensuring that the exercise of governmental power , which is essential to the realization of the values of their societies , should be controlled in order that it should not itself be destructive of the values it was intended to promote . |
| 27 | By the summer of 1937 I had busied myself with journalism and with radio programme production for eight years , and I was becoming restless . |
| 28 | After the war , German universities had rebuilt themselves with much help from overseas , particularly the US , but little direction from central government . |
| 29 | The predictions that I have concerned myself with are rather more critical . |
| 30 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |