Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Mourou , 42 , and his co-signatories apparently intended to disassociate themselves from the pro-Iraqi position of exiled Nahda president Rashid Ghannouchi .
2 We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’
3 For example , it could well have been that families of cave dwellers came to realise that it was possible that they could agree to respect the privacy and boundaries of their respective homes , and by so doing relieve themselves of the eternal vigilance likely to be necessary in the absence of such agreement .
4 Yet , as I argued earlier , giving up one 's identity to another who is more powerful can only mean submitting oneself to the other .
5 I wince every time I watch a two-stroke apparently trying to tear itself from the mountings .
6 That have concluded that the differences between two democracies in South America are not great enough to warrant arming themselves to the teeth .
7 She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure .
8 A Punjabi speaking volunteer was suggested to sit in , but this was not acceptable as the family did not want to commit themselves to a regular time for the volunteer to call .
9 The tone of the article was that Charman was getting out because he did not want to commit himself to the group on a full-time basis .
10 After certain difficulties with the manager of the Old Vic , who did not want to commit himself to the play on the basis of the bare outline which had been shown to him , Browne approached the theatrical impresario , Henry Sherek , and asked him if he would care to produce the play — with Browne as director — at Edinburgh .
11 He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft .
12 ‘ On the rare occasion he bothers to leave that damn hotel — sorry , but you know what I mean — he just wants to drink himself into a stupor .
13 Clearly , we would not need to concern ourselves with the meaning of analogue information if all sources of text , numerics , sounds and images were digital .
14 I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained .
15 I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’
16 She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him .
17 Cooperators can not expect to protect themselves against the threatened attack of the opposing forces without carefully preparing a united plan of campaign , in the same way that the Labour Party has mobilised its battalions …
18 ‘ I 'm not going to turn myself into a performing monkey , ’ warns Howard .
19 You 're not , you do n't trust them , you 're not going to put yourself on the line are you , suppose .
20 and that I think really have more of an influence , cos they 're not going to change themselves into an individual
21 Existing customers are a worse risk because if they know redundancy is in the offing they are more likely to take out redundancy protection while new borrowers are not going to commit themselves to a mortgage if they are worried about losing their jobs . ’
22 With the best will in the world a bassoon can not begin to express itself in the same terms as a viola da gamba and when two of the three melodic parts are conceived for strings a precious dimension is lost by substituting woodwind .
23 Through the haze , Bolton Castle was just beginning to show itself across the dale , square and massive .
24 The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes whilst the three-quarter-ton monster was winched out on to the tracks , and cars soon began diverting themselves through the portals of the nearby Methodist Church .
25 I shall not have to concern myself with the interview of [ W ] but I shall concern myself with the interviews of [ the co-accused ] . ’
26 The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves .
27 This is because Britain could not have defended herself in the Cold War order , and the common enemy demanded common action .
28 Julian , of course , would not have described herself as a prophet , because like all monotheists at this date , she believed that God 's revelation was complete and that the day of prophecy was therefore over .
29 They do not have to protect themselves from the monster .
30 The court was influenced by evidence pointing to the fact that the defendants had been negligent and it was stated that had steps been taken to mitigate the nuisance , the Council would not have found itself in the position it was now in .
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