Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] with [art] [noun] of " 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 | Decentralization permits each locality to provide itself with the quantity of the good it prefers . |
| 3 | She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him . |
| 4 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 5 | I will learn to know myself with the help of my inner teacher . |
| 6 | You invest in the equity market to provide yourself with a stream of future dividends which will hopefully outpace inflation . |
| 7 | He who endeavours to enrich himself with the property of others , should be deprived of part of his own . |
| 8 | On the range , the men had to familiarize themselves with every form of weapon including German and Italian ones . |
| 9 | It was as if his father felt a need to torture himself ; to surround himself with the symbols of lost joy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is difficult for individuals to identify themselves with the objectives of a large organisation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And if you 're a self-confessed chocoholic , then you 'll really be able to spoil yourself with a slice of Tesco Chocolate Roulade . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | She continued to surprise herself with the capabilities of her augmented flesh . |
| 19 | The warm-blooded supporters tend to ally themselves with the supporters of a theory about the relationships of the dinosaurs . |
| 20 | Nedham and Bowes were further required to acquaint themselves with the costing of the roasting and smelting . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She saw that it had been a mistake — an evasion perhaps ? — ; to hamper herself with the abstractions of that cryptic poem . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Critics charged that he was too busy thinking about France to concern himself with the problems of the French people . |
| 28 | In consequence , I acquired Beejay , an animal who is too laid back to concern himself with the eccentricities of any vehicle he encounters . |
| 29 | It is clear at that stage the London committee envisaged funding its proposed activities by subscriptions , and that it intended to concern itself with the diseases of cows and sheep as well as horses . |
| 30 | Let us leave the last words with Walter Abish who declares that ‘ the innovative novel is , in essence , a novel of disfamiliarization , a novel that has ceased to concern itself with the mapping of the ‘ familiar ’ world ’ ( Martin 1983 : 238 ) . |