Example sentences of "surround [pn reflx] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should surround yourself with close friends — it will put you in a good mood for dealing with a financial matter . |
| 2 | Surrounding himself with local knowledge was a form of entrenchment ; if you dig in and stare at a hill you can often persuade yourself you know what 's going on behind it . |
| 3 | She 's always been one to surround herself with young bucks . |
| 4 | Perhaps the upwardly mobile middle classes in 1990s Detroit are now surrounding themselves with postmodern houses and artefacts ! |
| 5 | How much better it is to surround oneself with nice paintings of collie dogs and children , sunsets and young lovers holding hands … ’ |
| 6 | The designer surrounded himself with exquisite objects — Chinese porcelain vases , a life-sized bronze reproduction of Donatello 's David , the paintings of Rousseau . |
| 7 | He surrounded himself with anti-Nazi German Jesuits , among them his secretary and his confessor , Augustine Bea . |
| 8 | Although he is based in Paris and spends a great deal of his time in his various houses in France , Lagerfeld is , in the way he conducts his life and work , a relic of an older Germany — a country of small principalities , ruled , like Herzog 's eighteenth-century Weimar , by cultured and cultivated monarchs who surrounded themselves with small courts of aristocrats , intellectuals and kindred creative spirits . |