Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear . |
| 2 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |
| 3 | They later intervened on his behalf when he was investigated for criminal fraud , thereby opening themselves to allegations of having accepted bribes . |
| 4 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 5 | Rose shut herself into her office , grimly applying herself to routine . |
| 6 | Er basically stuffing yourself to excess for two weeks . |
| 7 | She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops , perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet , or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street , browsing in all the shop-windows ; afterwards , Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard . |
| 8 | On only baring themselves to their personal sex . |
| 9 | Through the centuries it has changed at intervals by learning from errors and misfortunes , constantly adapting itself to new situations . |
| 10 | The village of Uppercross in Persuasion ( 1818 ) , for example , ‘ had been completely in the old English style ’ , two houses only showing themselves to be superior to the dwellings of yeomen and labourers : the squire 's mansion with its high walls and great gates , and ‘ the compact , tight parsonage , enclosed in its own neat garden ’ . |
| 11 | She criticised the showing on television of ‘ pictures of young black teenagers taking calculated — and cheerful — running kicks at plate-glass shop windows , coolly helping themselves to the goods inside , shoes , shirts or whatever they could lay their hands on ’ . |
| 12 | He struggled to match the already competent Dave Fielding , but was soon applying himself to pecuniary areas . |
| 13 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 14 | It 's it 's just the strains that I 've had to go through , raising her up , and the time and the energy and just having myself to be sane , you know and and well ! |
| 15 | Yet in 1340 Philip VI was already showing himself to be master of the tactic which the French were to employ in the years to come , that of avoiding direct contact with the enemy . |
| 16 | And Bill Holroyd was already showing himself to be pretty gullible , so it 's in character . |
| 17 | To be fair , engineers are also impressed by the idea of harnessing the purifying capabilities of nature in this way , largely confining themselves to pointing out the real-world constraints on the wilder flights of fancy . |
| 18 | But in largely confining itself to observable phenomena . |
| 19 | Thinking about why you make particular mistakes ( rather than just resigning yourself to being " a bad speller " ) is one way of overcoming spelling problems . |
| 20 | The stores were overrun with rats and mice and the cats came to feast on these rodent pests , thereby endearing themselves to the Egyptian people . |
| 21 | On this thought , Catherine put her head in , politely excusing herself to Bruce Davidson , and said that Miss Huntley had finally got here . |
| 22 | AN undercover paramilitary group emerged in Colombia yesterday dedicating itself to ending the country 's wave of bombings and drug terror and offering a $5 million reward for the cocaine king Pablo Escobar — dead or alive . |
| 23 | Quickly introducing herself to the sister-in-charge , she looked around for the nearest unattended patient . |
| 24 | The oil industry is still accommodating itself to its new size following the 1979 price hike . |
| 25 | They travelled by Government steam-packet from Falmouth to Marseilles , thereafter entrusting themselves to the French conveyances . |
| 26 | While Branson was negotiating the purchase of his Caribbean island , the living corpse of the Sex Pistols was slowly kicking itself to final , ignominious extinction . |
| 27 | It hardly mattered anyway , for in addition to his bootleg coverage , Hurley was also helping himself to anything he wanted in the legitimate footage brought out of Lebanon by television news teams . |
| 28 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 29 | Masochistically subjecting himself to punishment in a gymnasium , incurring injury by hurling himself from windows or roofs , he achieves final atonement through an Italian hitman 's bullet . |
| 30 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |