Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pn reflx] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have confused himself with the Messiah , but he did n't expect to die . |
| 2 | James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead . |
| 3 | Kate had surprised herself with the intensity of her response . |
| 4 | And already we 've found ourselves with the word on our lips ! |
| 5 | There were many times in the past years when he had wondered why on earth he had involved himself with the Hochhauser Season , times when he was worried , exhausted , furious , and prepared to consign the whole company to hell . |
| 6 | Fei Yen was looking down , the p'ip'a resting loosely against her breasts , her whole frame bent forward , as if she had emptied herself with the song . |
| 7 | Born and bred in Stockport , he had identified himself with the life of the town and the School . |
| 8 | As the heating was off it had been cold , but he had comforted himself with the thought that it was not as cold as it was outside where many of the animals were . |
| 9 | Charles ' father , Pepin le Bref , had allied himself with the papacy against Lombardy , but Charles eventually destroyed the Lombards and took the Iron Crown for himself . |
| 10 | Nowhere is this as clearly illustrated as in the struggles of black workers and in the way in which white workers have aligned themselves with the bureaucracy . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In studies of disability , I have been surprised by the number of sexually handicapped people in their fifties and beyond who have consoled themselves with the belief that they are , in any case , too old for sex to have much meaning . |