Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] with [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 2 | But we should need to find a crock of gold , my dear , to provide ourselves with all that . ’ |
| 3 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 4 | When the jet took off again , Trevor found himself with more patients . |
| 5 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 6 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |
| 7 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 8 | So the animal will work in order to provide itself with those conditions . |
| 9 | I hope that Marjorie is not just amusing herself with these children . |
| 10 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 11 | Although the band could now operate without digging into the personal pocket of Joe Moss ( previously he had financed all the band 's expenses ) , Marr , Morrissey , Rourke and Joyce still found themselves with little personal money . |
| 12 | However , many difficulties immediately suggest themselves with this use of hoards . |
| 13 | It is a good idea to frighten yourself with some costings before you start . |
| 14 | Amusing myself with such trivial thoughts , I waited for the rain to give up . |
| 15 | After the war , German universities had rebuilt themselves with much help from overseas , particularly the US , but little direction from central government . |
| 16 | On the other hand , shaky close-ups , even of magnificent beasts , are not very good to watch and you really need to provide yourself with some kind of additional support to help you hold the camcorder steady . |
| 17 | My original programme included the week 's Workshop in Jaipur and two lectures in Delhi , but in fact I found myself with many more professional engagements than this , through the Indian habit of ‘ cashing in ’ on one 's presence to arrange last minute lectures and seminars , and the Indian tendency to solicit one 's opinion of personal research , of Ph.D . |
| 18 | Over 200 species of birds have been seen anointing themselves with these substances . |
| 19 | He applied for a post in the service of the archduke : but Ferdinand was advised by his mother not to burden himself with such ‘ useless creatures who travel around all over the place , like beggars ’ . |
| 20 | Deng closely aligned himself with this stance . |
| 21 | It was during this time that James was able to reacquaint himself with another old school chum , Malcolm Nurse . |
| 22 | Endowed , as he was , with a compelling creative genius , he drove himself with little regard for his own health and welfare , contributing ( over and above his journalistic duties ) serial novels , literary and political commentaries , and poems to newspapers , and an increasing flow of scholarly articles and essays to monthly and quarterly journals . |
| 23 | She busied herself with some clothes . |
| 24 | ‘ I just dried myself with some hay and wrung out my dress before putting it back on . |
| 25 | Room 's full of Adonises and you 've matched yourself with this rogue . |
| 26 | While I can not associate myself with some of the language used by the hon. Member for Sunderland , South ( Mr. Mullin ) , many people feel that it is high time that the United States modernised its economic relations with Vietnam and started to observe the common action programme agreed between 24 countries in respect of the Vietnamese boat people in Hong Kong . |
| 27 | For it is indeed time some party concerned itself with all those intangible forms of wealth that can not be included in anything called so appropriately the gross national product . |
| 28 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 29 | Chris Patten ( left ) and Michael Heseltine ( right ) : surrounding himself with such figures Major shows a measured approach |
| 30 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |