Example sentences of "[pron] be [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive .
2 I am opening myself as a channel to the Light . ’
3 I 'm preparing myself for the next life .
4 The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter .
5 He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success .
6 Instead I was getting myself into an increasingly confrontational situation , a battle of wills , with the Director of Coaching .
7 At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 .
8 I was committing myself to a policy . ’
9 In 1983 gas , coal and nuclear power accounted for 16% , 9% and 1% respectively of energy demand and it is gas which is establishing itself as the most significant oil alternative .
10 I have a problem with my marine fish — in particular with a Regal Tang which is scratching itself against the tufa rock .
11 If this view is correct , I can only conclude that I was saddled with both sets of anxieties and , in addition , that there are more and more adolescent girls today who are finding themselves in the same position .
12 You are involving yourself with a particularly foolish and headstrong group of trouble-makers .
13 ‘ But I suppose that you are consoling yourself after the fashion of a fool who lives in the slums .
14 Walking , running and swimming are the best exercises you can do if you are using yourself in the correct way .
15 As the introduction says how you intend to proceed , you are committing yourself to a particular course .
16 Throwing yourself at men , men of gross natures , is a still-greater act of self-abuse , and I can not warn you too strongly that you are placing yourself in the very gravest danger .
17 They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week .
18 If you 're lying in bed trying to go to sleep and you 're screwing yourself into a ball of self-disgust , you 're gon na find the sheets get colder and your limbs get stiffer , and if you do n't break the mood you 'd be better out of bed .
19 What does matter is that you 're wearing yourself to a shadow to make a bare livelihood — and my hands are tied , ’ he said violently , looking down at them as though he longed to tear off the invisible fetters .
20 Just by opting for a more left field occupation you 're putting yourself on the edge a bit It really does take a bit of bottle to do that and find your own way through the maze rather than just go with the flow .
21 You 're working yourself into a state .
22 So tell me , if the business my grandmother started several decades ago really is on the brink of insolvency , how come you 're sunning yourself in the Caribbean , Mr Sterne ?
23 Mum , you 're worrying yourself for no reason .
24 True , you ca n't do it , if you 're restricting yourself to a positive answer .
25 She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life .
26 You were getting yourself into a whole load of trouble , Fran , and I needed to ensure that there would be someone around to look after you when I could n't be .
27 You were congratulating yourselves on the fact earlier , I know . ’
28 Married but childfree , she 's gearing herself for a sad goodbye to her 20s .
29 But I mean it 's not just that , she 's killing herself for the job like !
30 She is expressing herself against the popular wisdom concerning her sex .
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