Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | When on the ground , they walk on the sides of their clenched feet and support themselves with their hands . |
| 2 | It is a struggle to paint grasses in a true watercolour technique and the purist may well react against the use of white and acrylic here , but I have found a release from the restrictions of technique through this method and comfort myself with the knowledge that white has been in common use by artists throughout the history of watercolour painting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mary Tyrone , perhaps the central character of the play but certainly not the sole source of discord , is a fading beauty trying to find solace from the harsh realities of the external world and internal torment in steeping herself in lost ideals and numbing herself with drugs . |
| 5 | He used wholemeal flour to make bread , scones , pies and cakes , concocted elaborate salads and dosed himself with vitamins . |
| 6 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 7 | Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time . |
| 8 | In summary , then , at present advocates of an orthodox Marxist-Leninist ( Soviet-inspired ) solution to Latin American problems do not enjoy much support , and it seems clear that Communist parties need to develop more flexible strategies and to ally themselves with the broader left if they are to sustain an effective role in political life . |
| 9 | Foster screamed in panic as he felt the cruel steel slice his flesh , and he threw himself bodily away from his attacker , hitting the ground in a rolling break-fall and spraying himself with his own urine as he did so . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 14 | But with the accession of Herod , Eisenman argues , most Sadducees — the Sadducees whom we know as such from biblical sources and from Josephus — betrayed their original loyalties and aligned themselves with the usurper . |
| 15 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |