Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 2 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 3 | ‘ Damnation ’ will approach his target and introduce himself with an opening line which usually goes something like , ‘ Hi . |
| 4 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 5 | But with the accession of Herod , Eisenman argues , most Sadducees — the Sadducees whom we know as such from biblical sources and from Josephus — betrayed their original loyalties and aligned themselves with the usurper . |
| 6 | So we spent the night at a cheap bed and breakfast nearby , and fortified ourselves with a breakfast of sausages , bacon and eggs . |
| 7 | Practise the above and familiarise yourself with the co-ordination required for turns in each direction before trying to fly proper circuits . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is a problem which seems curiously common to left-arm spinners , and manifests itself with the bowler either failing to release the ball , or propelling it vertically into the air . |
| 10 | In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger . |
| 11 | Many blind people struggle to pay their bills and provide themselves with the necessities of life . |
| 12 | Within Royal Ordnance which I have resumed the responsibility for I do n't know , Mr Chairman , I convened a meeting of the convenors to introduce myself and to familiarize myself with the movement and the industry only for the company to announce thirteen hundred redundancies , as we were meeting . |
| 13 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 14 | Ianthe flushed and busied herself with the coffee tray . |
| 15 | And embroil myself with a man of Mr. B. 's power and fortune ! |
| 16 | ‘ When the State usurps the functions of the family ’ … and consoled himself with the thought that he never pontificated unless he was drunk . |
| 17 | They appeared to ignore him — and organized themselves with a secretariat of their own . |
| 18 | You must also buy a copy of Debrett and familiarize yourself with the names of those people in society we hope will become our clients . |
| 19 | We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog . |
| 20 | When her son was badly injured in a road accident , she nursed him to the point of exhaustion , refusing outside help , and comforted herself with the thought that if only her family knew what she was going through , they would rush to her rescue . |
| 21 | The President had got himself into bed and covered himself with the sheet . |
| 22 | We crept in under a low table and covered ourselves with a tarpaulin . |
| 23 | There 'd been yet another cancelled lesson only today and Ronni was feeling even angrier and edgier than ever as , just after lunchtime , she made her way down the garden towards the villa 's private little jetty , a corner she had n't explored before , to try and calm herself with a breath of air . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ) |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Some , notably those with physical disabilities , see integration as a human right ( Reiser and Mason , 1990 ) and align themselves with the views of organisations such as the Centre for Studies in Integration in Education ( CSIE ) . |
| 29 | As a rule , he prefers to shake his finger at men as they move by wrong paths from the cradle to the grave , and to remind himself with a frown that he , too , is human — a frown that is almost a sigh : |
| 30 | 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 . |