Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as she was aware , no one had cut themselves or pricked themselves with a needle . |
| 2 | In 2 Corinthians 10:12 he says , ‘ We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Taking orders without question removed the need to make decisions or involve himself with external matters . |
| 5 | This is most emphatically not the same as blaming ourselves or burdening ourselves with an unnecessary load of guilt . |
| 6 | He had inched his way to the dark bathroom , and stood slumped over the sink , feeling lost , depersonalized , and trying to soothe or tether himself with the running water . |
| 7 | It 's cost effective to have foam or box filters available as simple back-up units should you have problems , or find yourself with sick fish or fry . |
| 8 | If you are a film star and smoke a particular brand of cigar or douse yourself with an exotic perfume then you would be a prime candidate to appear in adverts endorsing these products . |
| 9 | While this survey has been concerned with public libraries , co-operation potentially encompasses a wide range of institutions , and an INSET network that concerned itself with training across the whole spectrum of librarianship would be of maximum value . |
| 10 | Rather than contenting himself with a specific and clearly defined puzzle , Poulantzas aims to give a broad account of the capitalist state , which will show what it is and what it does by revealing its connections with the various instances of the social whole . |
| 11 | Like his men , he has made a blanket-roll to carry immediate necessities rather than burdening himself with a blanket bag or other form of knapsack . |
| 12 | Appraisal is seen to be principally the activity of applied linguistics ( or that branch of it that concerns itself with language teaching ) and application ( as defined here ) the principal activity of language teaching . |
| 13 | In addition , she is keenly involved in Headway ( I 'm the Avon patron ) , the Frenchay based charity that concerns itself with the effects and remedial care following head injuries . |
| 14 | The feminist movement has combined with ecology to make many women feel that stuffing themselves with pills is not what Mother Nature wants , and that learning to understand their bodies by the rhythm method is superior . |
| 15 | He suggests that a woman may be allowed to sit at his feet , rather than preoccupy herself with cooking . |
| 16 | We adopted the position and as soon as the issue 's resolved the better so I 'm somewhat reluctant in saying that Jack Straw could be less equivocal about C C T rather than concerning himself with what is written on the back of his party card . |
| 17 | Rather than concerning itself with the way in which the properties of this structure emerge from its components , it takes the structure as given and asks how it reproduces itself and changes . |
| 18 | ‘ It is the only thing that presents itself with the information we have at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | Older people , not unreasonably , relate health to others of their own approximate age rather than comparing themselves with younger people in their physical prime . |
| 20 | It 's a busy , demanding life — a far cry from the days when Odette would sit at home , too tired to do anything except console herself with chocolates . |
| 21 | ‘ We all of us have something better to do than concern ourselves with the tantrums of servants ! ’ |
| 22 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 23 | Love voted for exclusion and concerned himself with related topics . |
| 24 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 25 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 26 | He used wholemeal flour to make bread , scones , pies and cakes , concocted elaborate salads and dosed himself with vitamins . |
| 27 | ‘ Damnation ’ will approach his target and introduce himself with an opening line which usually goes something like , ‘ Hi . |
| 28 | Holliman decided that they had to take cover , so they scuttled into a patch of scrub and camouflaged themselves with nets . |
| 29 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 30 | Alter that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet soap which Helen had put in my bag . |