Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also a good pointer where we 've been able to compare ourselves with civil engineering scaled fees , which was on the Overtown Bank Slip which was a job which went completely right , perfect no problems . |
| 2 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 3 | But we should need to find a crock of gold , my dear , to provide ourselves with all that . ’ |
| 4 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 5 | Chief Executive Neville Chamberlain said : ‘ We have concerned ourselves with environmental care for many years and are proud of our achievements so far . |
| 6 | Dexter had woken up early only to find himself with forty minutes to kill . |
| 7 | He is obviously intent upon amusing himself with two women . |
| 8 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 9 | How about starting with a report on the Stuttgart Classic event where Goran really excelled himself with brilliant wins over Jim Courier and , of course , the out-of-sorts ( surely for the moment only ) , Stefan Edberg . |
| 10 | He got into Cadogan 's early , and found himself with two empty hours in which to get on with his work before anyone else showed up . |
| 11 | When the jet took off again , Trevor found himself with more patients . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When the door to the Scotland team opened in Paris earlier this season , the Bonnyrigg blacksmith seized the opportunity and went on to establish himself with further caps against Wales and England . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Taking orders without question removed the need to make decisions or involve himself with external matters . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He bore himself with great dignity , and not a little humour , but he was disappointed to the innermost core . |
| 18 | Aligning itself with popular art , her previous production includes a cartoon strip expliqué of Wagner 's Ring cycle with rodent protagonists . |
| 19 | As well as prompting a rise in trade , the existence of a new class which found itself with spare time and spare cash at its disposal also heralded an era of unprecedented artistic achievement . |
| 20 | There followed a period of uncertainty until it found itself with new occupants Savory and Sons . |
| 21 | A second , related problem is that business ethics has mostly concerned itself with grand theorising , trying to answer questions such as ‘ Is capitalism ethically justifiable ? ’ and ‘ Can a profitable business ever be ethical ? ’ . |
| 22 | So the animal will work in order to provide itself with those conditions . |
| 23 | One Keighley mill warper 's wife found herself with four to care for ; and even one could stir up great resentment . |
| 24 | I hope that Marjorie is not just amusing herself with these children . |
| 25 | Gerald of Wales , writing in the later twelfth century , says that the Welsh do not build ‘ lofty stone buildings ’ but content themselves with small huts made of the boughs of trees twisted together . ’ |
| 26 | Bakers in England content themselves with Hot Cross Buns at Easter . |
| 27 | People are sensible to ignore these fruitless attempts at philosophy and ‘ content themselves with daily experience ’ and common sense , even if this is merely ‘ feeding upon acorns ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ The staff have really shown their skills in producing this range of foods , ’ said Janet , ‘ and on special occasions , such as Christmas and Easter , they have excelled themselves with superb cakes and eggs . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You can enjoy yourself with beautiful smoked salmon and olives or soup , followed by roast lamb and a few spuds from the garden , French beans , or whatever . |