Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ashdown yesterday sought to provide himself with even more leeway in a hung parliament by outlining circumstances in which he would not feel bound to vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not contain PR . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 3 | Hilda got hysterical and tried to kill herself with aspirins . |
| 4 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 5 | Mrs Dyer was lodged in Reading Gaol , where she made two abortive attempts at suicide , the first with a pair of scissors with which she tried to stab herself ; thwarted , she then tried to strangle herself with her boot laces , with no greater success . |
| 6 | As we tried to calm ourselves with sweet coffee , a Swiss traveller appeared . |
| 7 | Six blocks away a 52-year-old doorman who tried to protect himself with an ice pick was killed by a teenager with an automatic handgun . |
| 8 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 9 | While Montgomerie radiated confidence and respect for the course , it was a typically down-beat Sandy Lyle who prepared to re-acquaint himself with the course where he made his U.S. Open debut in 1980 . |
| 10 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 11 | Was n't it plain , common or garden cowardice , not the sturdy self-righteousness I 'd credited myself with , which prevented me from ending the whole business ? |
| 12 | I looked at him closer ; trusted that he was not one of those ( not so many ) that I 'd pleasured myself with . |
| 13 | She 'd mutilated herself with razor blades . |
| 14 | The church of the apostolic age sought to identify itself with the ‘ poor ’ whom Jesus had declared blessed ( Luke 6 : 20 ) ; or had he meant the ‘ poor in spirit ’ ( Matt. 5 : 3 ) , the humble-hearted , who could hold their property without pride as means to support the destitute ? |
| 15 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 16 | Here and elsewhere , the government strove to identify itself with new themes . |
| 17 | Desperately trying to pull herself together , she strove to console herself with the thought that , if Ross could hardly remember their brief marriage , it was obviously going to make matters easier for them both during this hurried trip to America . |
| 18 | The inquisitive Warlord turned to realign itself with its mechanical peers which strode onward together in line abreast , to massacre Marines . |
| 19 | So , my friend in imitation of ‘ All hail Macbeth ! hail to thee Thane of Cawdor ! ’ condescended to amuse himself with uttering ‘ All hail Dalblair ! hail to thee , Laird of Auchinleck ! ’ ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We love sunflower seeds ! ’ they all cried , and began stuffing themselves with big black seeds . |
| 21 | Wexford wiped his brow with his handkerchief and , following Camb 's example , began to fan himself with the morning paper . |
| 22 | Europe began to equip itself with electrical power stations ; London 's first was the Edison Holborn Viaduct station of 1882 . |
| 23 | And so , for the first time , vertebrate hunters began to propel themselves with skill and accuracy through the waters of the sea . |
| 24 | Halfway through lunch , this blonde , baby-faced girl started to kill herself with anxiety because she saw someone she knew but could not remember their name . |
| 25 | She decided to extricate herself with dignity . |
| 26 | Jenny had a very poor topographical imagination and needed to apply herself with great concentration to the task of relating the main lines of street lights to her own knowledge of the town . |
| 27 | A Buryat tale relates how one of their groups decided to link itself with the Russians because their own khan chopped off heads for crimes which merited mere birching in Muscovite territory . |
| 28 | Breaking with all precedent New Scientist started to advertise itself with posters in the London Underground . |
| 29 | What was it to her if he chose to conduct himself with duplicity ? |
| 30 | A few developed a liking for the racecourse and as it had been drummed into them to dress correctly for every occasion , somehow they managed to provide themselves with the obligatory long trailing gowns by lending each other clothes and accessories ; they appreciated the elegance of their suave escorts in tail coats and top hats . |