Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pn reflx] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've seen them — women like that monstrous Gabriela — push their husbands to ingratiate themselves with the Leader 's henchmen here , I 've seen the feasts they 've laid — like traps — very effective traps — those men , they 're nothing but walking bellies with fists-they grab , hit , grab , swallow , hit , the scum , I would n't lower myself to share a table with them . |
| 3 | They have long advised serious car-radio listeners to equip themselves with a Radio Data System . |
| 4 | It is difficult for individuals to identify themselves with the objectives of a large organisation . |
| 5 | This does not tackle head on the various problems of priority raised above , but the principle of minimum coverage seems a very good starting point for a public librarian , allowing value judgements to concern themselves with the degree of provision attempted within the overall coverage . |
| 6 | He encouraged Sir Warren Fisher , the permanent secretary of the Treasury , and other senior civil servants to busy themselves with the drawing up of constitutional memoranda which came near to being ultimata . |
| 7 | Whereas in Egypt the pharaoh symbolized the triumph of an invincible divine order over the forces of chaos , in Mesopotamia kingship represented the struggle of a human order with all its anxieties and hazards to integrate itself with the universe . |
| 8 | Though it is too early for beginners to concern themselves with the relationship between musical forms and mathematics , the often surprising exactness in the relative proportions of musical sections , and even between movements , may be mentioned here . |
| 9 | Under normal circumstances , understudies would be expected to attend all the rehearsals to familiarise themselves with the production , but , because Alex and Charles knew the play so well , they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off , which would save both them and their replacements the embarrassment of the early stumbling rehearsals while the newcomers were trying to memorise the lines . |