Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they come to MPs like me to try and find some way of helping themselves out of the dilemma . |
| 2 | His spirit had not been broken ; rather he was afraid of tearing himself apart with the involuntary jerking of one side of his limbs in the opposite direction to the other . |
| 3 | This deed somehow necessitated a second manoeuvre , that of picking myself up off the floor . |
| 4 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 5 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 6 | Wivenhoe 's only chance of hauling themselves back into the match came in the 48th minute when Gray was pulled down by keeper Caskey , who then saved the spot kick from Abrahams . |
| 7 | This makes recovery , especially from word initial errors , extremely difficult , since the matching process has no way of realigning itself correctly with the input . |
| 8 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
| 9 | And of entrusting ourselves in to the power of his mercy . |