Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] with [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community .
2 It can not be stressed too strongly that a great deal of the blame for unsatisfactory deeds must lie in the failure of the Scottish legal profession to provide itself with a service for new styles .
3 Decentralization permits each locality to provide itself with the quantity of the good it prefers .
4 She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him .
5 She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all .
6 I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing .
7 I will learn to know myself with the help of my inner teacher .
8 You invest in the equity market to provide yourself with a stream of future dividends which will hopefully outpace inflation .
9 He who endeavours to enrich himself with the property of others , should be deprived of part of his own .
10 On the range , the men had to familiarize themselves with every form of weapon including German and Italian ones .
11 That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists .
12 It was as if his father felt a need to torture himself ; to surround himself with the symbols of lost joy .
13 Such parties , as always , like to equate themselves with the sense of collective separateness , hostility to ‘ them ’ and the ‘ imagined community ’ which may be almost universally felt in their ‘ nation ’ , but they are very unlikely to be the only expression of such a national consensus .
14 Industry-level bargaining would seem to have corresponded most closely to the preferences of employers and their capacity to organise themselves with a view to protecting market shares and strengthening their own bargaining power .
15 It is difficult for individuals to identify themselves with the objectives of a large organisation .
16 It was in the same year that Culture and Anarchy first appeared that the Charity Organisation Society was founded , to busy itself with the task of classifying and purifying the demoralised lower orders , and to sift out the ‘ deserving ’ from the ‘ undeserving ’ poor .
17 He must get it right today , however , if he is not to land himself with the label of being one of the best horses never to win a Gold Cup .
18 The Cockney porter who had smuggled in a bottle of booze for him said that one of them liked to satisfy herself with the aid of bottle necks .
19 And if you 're a self-confessed chocoholic , then you 'll really be able to spoil yourself with a slice of Tesco Chocolate Roulade .
20 Nobody 's bothered about Pike or how or why he went through Mr Marr 's pockets , cleaned out his ID , took his keys and squatted in the house to acquaint himself with the principles of ufology .
21 For Svend not to keep the appointment he made , solely to pleasure himself with the attractions of Copenhagen , will be regarded as an act of arrant rudeness , and will almost certainly disqualify him from gaining the approval of my brother-in-law 's cousin who himself is an ex-patriate Dane . ’
22 She continued to surprise herself with the capabilities of her augmented flesh .
23 The warm-blooded supporters tend to ally themselves with the supporters of a theory about the relationships of the dinosaurs .
24 Nedham and Bowes were further required to acquaint themselves with the costing of the roasting and smelting .
25 It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination .
26 She saw that it had been a mistake — an evasion perhaps ? — ; to hamper herself with the abstractions of that cryptic poem .
27 It pays to equip yourself with an understanding of a society that will change so much in political , economic , social , scientific , technological and cultural terms during your own working lifetime .
28 At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn .
29 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 .
30 In practice this means that we do n't need to concern ourselves with the contents of such data files ; they 're not for human consumption without previous digestion by a computer .
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