Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first instance we go to work in order to eat and drink and provide ourselves with shelter . |
| 2 | The 35-year-old Kurd from Turkey was waiting for a routine appointment in the Croydon Immigration Office in south London when he doused himself with petrol . |
| 3 | Hoomey , having learnt to steer his bus at a steady canter round the railway cinder track and clear two foot of sleepers on each circuit , now found himself with quarter of a mile of galloping grass and a hedgerow at the end of it reinforced with a telegraph pole . |
| 4 | RONAN Rafferty found himself with leeway to make up when the second round of the GA European Open began at East Sussex National today . |
| 5 | In Nigel Lawson 's first year as Chancellor , he fortified himself with whisky and soda , but tempered his consumption latterly by sipping spritzers while upping alcohol duties . |
| 6 | He himself was convinced that they were separate entities , and decided to prove this once and for all by inoculating himself with pus from a patient with a gonococcal discharge . |
| 7 | And Francie dowsing himself with porridge and ( now ) meditatively picking his teeth with a used matchstick . |
| 8 | The headache appeared to have resolved itself with analgesic . |
| 9 | An acquiring company may burden itself with responsibility for pollution , product liability and employers ' liability , where the liability accrued perhaps twenty or thirty years ago , but the claims are only now beginning . |
| 10 | I was fascinated by her story and waited impatiently while she refreshed herself with tea before continuing . |
| 11 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 12 | No wonder men and women alike roar and wet themselves with fright and delight as the horns scrape past the boldly offered ( and artificially enhanced ) raison d'être . |
| 13 | Warfare was the means by which the upper classes provided themselves with exercise and occupation , and justified their existence . |
| 14 | No doubt the material culture of the Russians was more highly developed than that of most Siberian peoples , in so far as they built log houses with wooden floors , windows and stoves ; wore clothing made of textiles woven from linen , hemp or wool ; used steam-baths ; were able to shoot game ( and people ) more efficiently with bullets than with arrows ; used vessels made of ceramics or metal ; provided themselves with grain and vegetables where natural conditions permitted , and so on . |
| 15 | Kick off your hand-tooled leather moccasins and kneel in a prayer-like manner as we parade the rumpy pumpy king of lurve techno , BLAKE BAXTER , before your reddened and disbelieving eyes , or go and see a play about clubbing , Excess XS , check out the GROOVE CHECK Single Of The Week , and familiarise yourself with BUMP 's all-time prime movers . |
| 16 | Patients are advised to eat regular meals , avoid certain foods , take tablets or inject themselves with insulin , monitor their blood glucose levels , to be careful with alcohol and see their doctors regularly . |
| 17 | By the summer of 1937 I had busied myself with journalism and with radio programme production for eight years , and I was becoming restless . |
| 18 | After being stuck in traffic behind trailer upon trailer carrying ‘ The Doors ’ logo , I eventually found myself with director Oliver Stone watching a drunk and disorderly Morrison recording ‘ Touch Me ’ . |
| 19 | Because administrators depended on their lord 's favour , they devoted themselves with vigour to Promoting his interests . |
| 20 | Add to all this that they endow themselves with rightness and send their mutual corroboration cascading through all levels of our information systems . |
| 21 | Industrialists were also happy to see an expansion of state and therefore bureaucratic intervention to provide themselves with protection against foreign imports and their relatives with employment opportunities . |
| 22 | They had to provide themselves with powder cans and the loss of any of these items , including drilling jumpers , meant they had to replace them . |
| 23 | People who skip breakfast work less efficiently than people who have taken the trouble to provide themselves with fuel for the morning . |
| 24 | As Crilly can not drive , I ply myself with junk food and coffee , preparing myself for the wheel . |
| 25 | She told him that he would cover himself with ridicule by bringing the boy back . |
| 26 | Charles also concerned himself with building , and actually helped to design his major cathedral at Aachen , part of which remains today . |
| 27 | Both Courtauld 's and Messrs Jay 's of Regent Street could rest assured , for not one undertaker concerned himself with buying-in to the mourning warehouses , thereby turning the tables on the mercers and upholders . |
| 28 | What was it to her if he chose to conduct himself with duplicity ? |
| 29 | Panic-stricken , she tried to pull her arm out of his , but her companion ignored her struggles , saying , ‘ Come on , ducks , no need to bovver ourselves with supper ; let's ‘ ave our bit of fun first , ’ and pulled her along into the alley where Dr Neil had found her . |
| 30 | Throughout his career , Gaunt was conspicuous for his loyalty to the king , and even when Richard II spurned that loyalty for a time , Gaunt did not associate himself with opposition to the court . |