Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 2 | Whenever you go to a new site , start your search by burying a couple of coins and reminding yourself of the different note each one makes in your headphones . |
| 3 | It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time . |
| 4 | Eventually Don grappled with the critical section , and with a quick windmill of arms and legs was up and establishing himself on the next stance . |
| 5 | A new grouping , the Boere Weerstandsbeweging ( BWB — a splinter group of the AWB formed on June 11 and describing itself as the armed wing of the BP ) , pledged solidarity with the BP in its aim of re-establishing former Boer republics . |
| 6 | Whatever course you adopt , you must avoid overstocking the land and overcommitting yourself in the early stages . |
| 7 | It has been an almost Darwinian process , of course , with those failing to shrug off the stereotype simply going out of business and removing themselves from the genetic pool . |
| 8 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 9 | But in the short and euphoric interval , even Mr Mann has softened his approach , indicating that he was now prepared to accept the constitution of India , and distancing himself from the latest demands by the ultra-belligerent Sikh student movement for an alternative government . |
| 10 | By resorting to guns , even toy ones , are the Lithuanians forfeiting the rights of democrats and putting themselves on the same level as the Soviet troops ? |
| 11 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 12 | On talking with her son Michael — ‘ Talking with Michael is like going down a water chute and finding yourself in the same swimming pool , very much at the deep end . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm pleading with you and mocking myself at the same time : how can you bear to resist ? ’ |
| 14 | Peregrine , however , was there lying back in his chair and offering himself to the hot sun in rather a shameless way . |
| 15 | The girl in the conservatory reached out a hand and flicked the switch , lighting them the last few yards , and floodlighting herself at the same time . |