Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are put in the position of having to commit yourself to one employer , establish well in advance of accepting a job or secondment offer exactly what will be required of you in terms of subsequent employment . |
| 2 | During the Cultural Revolution , for example , a woman could be severely beaten for attempting to adorn herself in any way and ‘ running after bourgeois ways ’ . |
| 3 | Dickinson half-rose and screamed at the man but the plane lumbered on seeming to spread itself with deliberate stupidity right across his path . |
| 4 | He sees what is nowadays called , I think , ‘ inter-personal relations ’ as being largely predicated on the need for people to convince themselves that they have a wholeness and a separateness and an individuality and a defined self , and they do this by trying to define themselves against those other shifting , evanescent erm personalities that they call their friends , enemies , wives , children and so on . |
| 5 | Instead of joining in with my group in recognising this success and congratulating the managers , the party opposite showed its usual churlishness by trying to congratulate themselves for some reason or other . |