Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should not dream of putting myself forward in any way at all , ’ said Dian Cecht . |
| 2 | I was too occupied in explaining myself legally to that rather brutal man , Dalziel , then in explaining myself emotionally to Jenny , to have much chance of explaining myself rationally to you . |
| 3 | Historically , this engaging adventurer carved out a career on the frontiers of Christendom and Islam without troubling himself much about religious differences : he was happy to ally himself with Muslims when it suited him . |
| 4 | This involves ‘ redrawing the boundaries of semantics/pragmatics ’ , in other words recognising that meaning can not be understood by addressing ourselves only to formal , syntactic processes : ‘ pragmatics ’ , the study of why and how utterances are used , has to be included within the study of what the utterances mean , and how their semantic load is constructed and regularised . |
| 5 | And by limiting ourselves specifically to stylistic alternatives , we can pinpoint the inferences from the text which are the basis of literary appreciation . |
| 6 | Would we not have repeated the errors of 1914 by involving ourselves again in that region ? |