Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pn reflx] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alter that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet soap which Helen had put in my bag . |
| 2 | He was a dour middle-aged man , who feared he was a failure and compensated himself with an excessively professorial beard and a punctiliously formal manner . |
| 3 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 4 | He usually bedded down on newspapers and covered himself with an old blanket which he sometimes left in the porch , ready for the next night , and sometimes took away , rolled into a long wad and tied around his stomach with string . |
| 5 | We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog . |
| 6 | She felt the beginnings of a disastrous blush and busied herself with a dirty mark on the window , getting out her handkerchief and scrubbing , her back to Louise . |
| 7 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 8 | The Report of the Data Protection Committee was published late in 1978 , a bad time for political initiatives : within a few months the new Conservative Government was in office and contenting itself with a fresh and laborious round of further consultations — there seemed little likelihood of anything being done until , in 1981 , the Council of Europe , as part of its concern with human rights , opened its ‘ Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Data Processing ’ for signature by States which had appropriate legislation enacted . |
| 9 | ‘ Damnation ’ will approach his target and introduce himself with an opening line which usually goes something like , ‘ Hi . |
| 10 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |