Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have familiarised myself with some of the feminist writers on art , women , and power — Linda Nochlin , Whitney Chadwick , Griselda Pollock . |
| 2 | Comment : Very useful device when you want to ingratiate yourself with another person who is trying hard to play high status . |
| 3 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 4 | Room 's full of Adonises and you 've matched yourself with this rogue . |
| 5 | Subordinate males , on the other hand , were friendlier towards the infants of high-ranking females , perhaps because their own rank might increase if they managed to associate themselves with such females . |
| 6 | On the face of it , this is similar to accommodation theory : speakers approximate their interlocutors ' linguistic behaviour , or distance themselves from it , depending on whether or not they wish to identify themselves with that individual . |
| 7 | On top of that , they have shackled themselves with some of the most inane and restrictive laws imaginable , laws that leave you wondering what on earth they were thinking about . |