Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fiscal 1992 , the drain on finances was development costs for the Sparcbook , exacerbated by a fall in demand for the board-level products : these were sufficiently severe that the company had to raise £572,000 in March in another rights issue after having to throw itself onto the mercy of its bankers and creditors in order to continue trading . |
| 2 | The baby had been very demanding lately , and after trying to divide herself between the shop and the child she felt drained of energy . |
| 3 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 4 | Despite killing more than 1m of their countrymen between 1975 and 1979 , and despite refusing to submit themselves to the vote , they still have a chance of being invited into the government after the election . |
| 5 | At no time during his life did Vincent show any sign of wanting to involve himself in the socialist movements of his day . |
| 6 | To schematise , the British working class has not been ready to run the risks of attempting to constitute itself as the ruling class , of putting forward concrete proposals for working class control over industry and finance and fighting seriously to achieve them . |
| 7 | ‘ Thank God that I am not answerable to any higher authority ; but were I in the position of having to justify myself before the great British public , even I would find it difficult to defend your priorities . ’ |
| 8 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 9 | The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another . |
| 10 | A Some of these sucking type catfish have this habit of trying to attach themselves onto the sides of other fish . |
| 11 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |
| 12 | On Jan. 25 the government ordered the ex-Prime Minister , Kazi Zafar Ahmed and members of his Cabinet in hiding to surrender themselves to the authorities within seven days or face one year 's rigorous imprisonment . |
| 13 | However , she said that she was quite happy to visualize the scene without having to detach herself from the reality of it . |
| 14 | Britain may still be a country where " everything is permitted which is not specifically prohibited " , but the specific prohibitions have become more numerous , without having to justify themselves against the overriding principle of public interest suggested by the Royal Commission on the Press . |
| 15 | WINNERS : Peers of the realm , who can continue to make use of the facilities in the Other Place without having to humiliate themselves at the hustings . |
| 16 | What she is saying is that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who can let life go by without trying to relate themselves to the big issues . |