Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] with [art] " in BNC.

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1 Do n't try to cure the flakiness yourself with an anti- dandruff shampoo — it requires a different treatment .
2 May I first associate myself with the words of the hon. Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) with whom I fully agree ?
3 At a rave in Stafford 's Bingley Hall last month , Altern-8 launched an offensive by proclaiming rock music dead , flying in an African witch doctor to ‘ cleanse the air of rock ’ with an ancient incantation , and rounding off the ceremony themselves with the sacrifice of a Fender Stratocaster .
4 In daylight the mound is still to be seen and is worth the climb for views of the sea , the plain of Holderness , and the village itself with the church standing proudly at the west end of the village .
5 But such criticisms were rebutted this week by Selina herself with the simple argument that whatever her talents are , one of them lies in getting people to watch her on the television .
6 A Kate was lost into Pearl Harbor itself with a fuel problem although the pilot was quickly rescued .
7 That is why covering yourself with a Legal & General Home and Personal Insurance Policy makes sound , common-sense .
8 Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton disgrace themselves with the kind of behaviour that gets other people put into homes .
9 Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry .
10 Lord Elphinstone had to content himself with the duke 's assurance that he ‘ would mention to those who mannage my affairs my being honoured with a letter from your Lordship & recommend unanimity upon this occasion … which I hope will be an inducement to the commissioners of supply to settle without varience ’ .
11 He had to content himself with the fact that it was mostly a one-way affair .
12 He says in the autobiography erm my view was that every president was a and this was a famous phrase every president was a steward of the people , a steward of the people , bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin curious turn of phrase I decline he says to adopt the view that what is imperatively necessary for the nation can not be done unless the president can find some specific authorization to do it in the constitution .
13 Now he has to content himself with the fact that the only replica of a Captain Cook ship he has been involved in was one built for the new shopping centre in Middlesbrough eight years ago .
14 Miller found himself playing the role of her doctor , manager , analyst and trouble-shooter with an increasingly frustrated , impatient and high-handed Olivier , who was having marital problems himself with the mentally troubled Vivien Leigh , who had just announced a miscarriage at the age of forty-one .
15 In the world of education and in the year of the Woods Hole conference , Britain had to content itself with the Crowther Report , which , even at the time of its publication and even more plainly in retrospect , reads more like an epitaph than a prophecy .
16 This time she was able to trap the playful retort before it made it from her mind to her mouth , managing to content herself with an indifferent lift of the shoulders .
17 Steel your heart , gird up your vitals and content yourself with the company of bold fellows like Kelly and myself … ’
18 She 'd wondered who 'd handle that side of it somehow she could n't imagine the night manager himself with a housekeeping trolley piled high with sheets and towels .
19 She might even dismember the beast herself with the kids ' help .
20 Well she 's delivered many a baby herself with no nurse er about .
21 After her husband 's death she had borne herself with a mournful dignity which had done her standing no harm , and taken the funeral food to the tomb herself with a regularity and devotion which would have shamed women lamenting better-loved partners .
22 Dismissing the assault as a subject of no concern , Joyce turned upon the intellectuals themselves with a promise of what was in store for them .
23 His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes .
24 During this period the Board has also had to find its feet , build up its staff resources to the planned level and concern itself with the production of some weighty discussion documents .
25 Criticism , he argued , should be opposed to this kind of scholarship , and concern itself with the specifically literary properties of texts .
26 Now she could get on with life , concern herself with the large airy matters like God and death and the problem of suffering ; forget , for a while , the goblin things — sex and money and regular meals .
27 He calculated that the aircraft was fairly light , the only payload being himself with a twentypound bag and twelve gallons of fuel .
28 Above : Bill refitted the bathroom himself with the help of his father .
29 I imagine him sliding over to Madonna herself with the words : ‘ I see , right , you and Bobby Gillespie , right , remaking ‘ Like A Virgin ’ , totally naked with a 36-piece orchestra , right . ’
30 ‘ Clownfish cover themselves with a sugar coating to avoid being stung by their anemone ’ What is true is that Clowns do have a polysaccharide mucus coating to mask the protein taste of their mucus — and thus avoid the anemone trigger mechanism which stings on sensing protein .
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