Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pn reflx] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 2 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 3 | It is a struggle to paint grasses in a true watercolour technique and the purist may well react against the use of white and acrylic here , but I have found a release from the restrictions of technique through this method and comfort myself with the knowledge that white has been in common use by artists throughout the history of watercolour painting . |
| 4 | The bubbling notes of a female cuckoo rang out as , rounding a bend and finding ourselves with the sea again in view , we settled to picnic . |
| 5 | The President had got himself into bed and covered himself with the sheet . |
| 6 | ( 1981 , p. 8 ) , however , deny the need to specify a theory of conditioning and concern themselves with the empirical implications of the view that changes in attention will be governed by the known laws of classical conditioning . |
| 7 | They like to watch a tough woman up there on the screen and comfort themselves with the thought that they 'll never have to live with her . ’ |
| 8 | Desmond Haynes ' first taste of Test captaincy was not a very happy experience , going for a duck in the first innings , dropping a catch and demeaning himself with the sledging as the match slipped away . |