Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 8 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |