Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long ago as the second century A.D. , the Roman historian Lucius Coelius recorded that , when he was free from his studies and more weighty affairs , he was not ashamed to play and sport himself with his cat . |
| 2 | Very often I fail to see that something is on its way to birth , and tax myself with totally useless questions as to what the matter might be . |
| 3 | The fundamentally cautious Mehemet Ali decided to withdraw from Asia Minor and content himself with Syria , but Nicholas realized that , to prevent a recurrence of the crisis , he had to find a way of institutionalizing his short-term assistance to the Ottomans . |
| 4 | He was only restrained from burning it to the ground by Harcourt , who urged him to ‘ be a little less impetuous and content yourself with what you have done ’ . |
| 5 | Steel your heart , gird up your vitals and content yourself with the company of bold fellows like Kelly and myself … ’ |
| 6 | Cregar might lounge in silk pajamas and stuff himself with Parisian chocolates , but he was still a supporting heavy , a cringing underling who 'd never last at the top of the criminal tree . |
| 7 | When I first started thinking about Christmas , I decided to spend it alone and stuff myself with food . |
| 8 | During this period the Board has also had to find its feet , build up its staff resources to the planned level and concern itself with the production of some weighty discussion documents . |
| 9 | Criticism , he argued , should be opposed to this kind of scholarship , and concern itself with the specifically literary properties of texts . |
| 10 | To be based in the northern town of Karasjok , the new assembly would be a consultative body only , and concern itself with issues of direct importance to the community , such as fishing and land rights and the preservation of cultural traditions . |
| 11 | When he was n't walking the streets , he 'd lie on his bed and torment himself with thoughts of her being somewhere close . |