Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] and [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By injecting humour into foot education , we hope children will enjoy themselves and remember the important messages , ’ said acting district chiropodist Paul Thurland . |
| 2 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 3 | She gripped his hand to steady herself and felt the strong bones . |
| 4 | At an emergency congress in October , the Communist Party voted to dissolve itself and become the Hungarian Socialist Party . |
| 5 | The Communist Party of the Netherlands ( Communistische Partij van Nederland — CPN ) voted at a party congress on June 15-16 , 1991 , formally to dissolve itself and to join the left-wing alliance Groen Links . |
| 6 | Their imperatives were comparatively simple ; to procreate and protect themselves and perpetuate the social order — preferably under their own control — so as to ensure a supply of human hosts . |
| 7 | The German middle classes and the German Catholics in particular knew that the Prussian Poles were no great threat to the state , yet in spite of their protests , the Junker-dominated Government found it essential to work through crude Völkisch opinion to maintain itself and divert the impending revolution . |
| 8 | A disabled person 's employment register is kept at local offices of the division , and the disabled can register themselves and obtain the special attention of the disablement resettlement officer ( DRO ) . |
| 9 | And when something odd began to happen in her own body , a sensation she wished to call ugly because she had never felt it before and did not wish to feel it now with him , she released her temper again , thrashing about quite wildly beneath him to hurt herself and make the treacherous feeling go away . |