Example sentences of "the [noun] and [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 2 | Corbett could scarcely understand some of the accents and contented himself with gazing around . |
| 3 | When Louis died a few months later , Thibaut aligned with a league of dissident barons who opposed the regent of France , Louis 's widow Blanche of Castile , but he soon abandoned the barons and reconciled himself with Blanche . |
| 4 | Bracing his knees against the gunwale and steadying himself with one hand on the mizzen backstay , he prepared to relieve himself over the stern . |
| 5 | The first step must be to visit the LOCUS and familiarize oneself with , for example , road layout in an R.T.A. or operation of machinery relative to a factory accident , where one has access thereto . |
| 6 | But Yorke wisely confines the psychology to the sub-text and contents herself with keeping the narrative moving . |
| 7 | It was practically a twenty-four-hour programme and we 'd be out at night , reading the stars and familiarizing ourselves with them . |
| 8 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 9 | Streets are blocked and atheism has to give way as people kneel in the streets and cross themselves with the sign of the Holy Trinity . ) |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Cassie was tempted to attract his attention but she resisted the temptation and contented herself with gazing at his undoubted magnificence . |