Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking , running and swimming are the best exercises you can do if you are using yourself in the correct way . |
| 2 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 3 | AS the curtain comes down on Courage League rugby for 1992 , the game 's elite are gearing themselves for the biggest dog-fight since the competition 's inception six years ago . |
| 4 | They 'll miss him , like they missed many of their first team players who 're saving themselves for a vital league game next week . |
| 5 | Yeah the firework systems supposed to be the centre of the Red Vase designs , we 're putting ourselves in a considerable disadvantage in not visiting and influencing these Red Vase Designs . |
| 6 | True , you ca n't do it , if you 're restricting yourself to a positive answer . |
| 7 | So if we 've got somebody earning nine thousand , they 're going to want to know why they 're insuring themselves for a hundred thousand on living insurance benefit . |
| 8 | ‘ What is the use of doing up the house , if you are to leave yourself in the same poor condition ? ’ demanded Rose . |
| 9 | As the introduction says how you intend to proceed , you are committing yourself to a particular course . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) . |
| 11 | I 'm preparing myself for the next life . |
| 12 | A superbly organised defence has been the key factor so far and even now at the zero hour , the men at the back are steeling themselves for a final defiant gesture . |
| 13 | ‘ We are talking ourselves into a fine slough ! |
| 14 | Even well-established commercial farmers are finding themselves on a cruel treadmill of soaring capital investment , the financing of which can only be serviced by increasing mortgages based on the rising cost of land . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Muslims are organising themselves on a nationwide scale , ’ Dr Mohammed Ghayas , editor of Muslimedia , a news service of the Islamic movement , said . |
| 17 | THE Friends of Thatcherism are working themselves into a fine old lather about the interview given by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the magazine Director . |