Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1914 he completed only eight portraits , tentatively and experimentally , for he was struggling to find himself , trying out different styles . |
| 2 | Hardly daring to trust himself , he gently replaced the receiver . |
| 3 | She held out the coffee but he did n't take it , not daring to trust himself if he reached towards her . |
| 4 | Like small birds , small mammals may occasionally indulge in mobbing to rid themselves of a feared killer . |
| 5 | There was a tearing sound and a large piece of the black silk winding detached itself from her back and flapped wide . |
| 6 | You will not be driven like the commercial nursery into getting as many as you can per acre ( hectare ) , and can therefore afford to be a little more generous with spacing to give yourself room to move about more comfortably . |
| 7 | He 'd have some explaining to do himself , if he took off his trousers . |
| 8 | Before she could warn him he caught his foot against the bag and fell backwards , twisting to save himself , and ended in a contorted heap . |
| 9 | Better-heeled artificers must almost certainly have been master craftsmen employing labour themselves . |
| 10 | You can then congratulate yourself for going over your time , or at least by persevering satisfy yourself that you have made a little headway . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , I was struggling to unfasten myself , but just as I managed to pull my left arm free of the ropes , I felt a hundred arrows land on my free hand , and more arrows on my face and body . |
| 12 | That 's real scary when you 're struggling to create yourself . ’ |
| 13 | The problem , she thought , in the hotel room , dressing to delight herself , delighted to be objective , to be smiling still , the problem : how to do all that , how to feel alive and brimming without a love object . |
| 14 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 15 | He was a Valium addict who would try anything to obtain a supply of the drug — including pretending to overdose himself so he would be referred to psychiatry . |
| 16 | By making an alliance with Megara , Athens was clearly seeking to secure herself from a lightning invasion from the west — the threat which had been made at the time of Thasos . |
| 17 | Not until the fire was almost out did he wake up , swearing to find himself so wet . |
| 18 | She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him . |
| 19 | When we denounce the anti-Semitism and let the Fascism take care of itself , we are fastening on what is prepolitical or sub-political , and refusing to engage ourselves on the plane of politics where , as Olson insists , we 're required to vindicate our own sorts of polity against the Fascist sorts . |
| 20 | Mr Heath deliberately employed the judges as instruments of his policy , enmeshed trade unionists in new legal rules , and then , in chorus with the judges , condemned them , in the name of the rule of law , for seeking to extricate themselves . |
| 21 | As Tolstoy himself concedes , in The Minister and the Massacres ( p 44 ) : Neither Gen Krasnov nor any other old emigre was seeking to extricate himself from sharing whatever fate attended those of their comrades who were in the equivocal position of being Soviet citizens . |
| 22 | In such an organization one 's boss is forever seeking to cover himself and to avoid taking responsibility . |
| 23 | While revenue contributions inevitably increased burdens upon ratepayers , and asset sales produced a ‘ once only ’ financial benefit ( as well as being politically unpalatable to many , notably Labour-controlled , authorities ) this was the perhaps inevitable response of local authorities seeking to free themselves from centrally-imposed borrowing restrictions ( as well as the high cost of borrowing after the mid-1970s ) . |
| 24 | Unconsciously perhaps Jeanne was seeking to free herself from her narrow and oppressively respectable bourgeois family . |
| 25 | Wanting to hear themselves speak . |
| 26 | Or are you hoping to keep her in ignorance so you can go back to her when you get tired of me and start wanting to respect yourself again ? |
| 27 | That left plenty of room for those wanting to let themselves go . |
| 28 | Despite killing more than 1m of their countrymen between 1975 and 1979 , and despite refusing to submit themselves to the vote , they still have a chance of being invited into the government after the election . |
| 29 | And for all he knew , pro-Syrian elements , the Lebanese Forces and other narco-terrorist groups were also still looking to revenge themselves for the damage that he and the Asmar cell had done to their drugs , arms and hostage-taking operations in Beirut . |
| 30 | The picture is obscured by the different public and private agencies seeking to divest themselves of the burden by distributing costs between one another . |