Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shuddering itself full of heat , seeming to enlarge slowly |
| 2 | Blindly she hurried on , tearing herself free of branches that attempted to hold her back . |
| 3 | Another point which should not be overlooked is that Committee papers are read by a good many Ministers who do not attend the meetings , and these papers are often the only means they have of keeping themselves abreast of developments in policy . |
| 4 | So you better start shifting yourself some of you ! |
| 5 | Her new position made her nervous but she kept breathing deeply to conquer it , and looked forward to proving herself worthy of the promotion . |
| 6 | Most cutters engage in the behaviour on several occasions , some cutting themselves hundreds of times altogether ( Rosenthal et al. 1972 ) . |
| 7 | But resurrection to a Messianic Kingdom is surely implied in the words of the mother of the Seven Martyrs in II Maccabees : " Fear not this executioner , but proving thyself worthy of thy brethren , accept thy death that in the mercy of God I may receive thee again with thy brethren . " |
| 8 | He had a lantern lit by the time she had dressed , wrapping herself last of all in the big , hooded cloak she had brought for Birsay . |
| 9 | But there is a good reason for making yourself aware of presuppositions : you need to be as conscious as possible of all the assertions you are making , including hidden ones . |
| 10 | Making yourself aware of bias and adopting alternative usages should prevent the tacit presumption by your reader of the white male as a norm . |
| 11 | All they should be doing is making themselves aware of the symptoms . |
| 12 | All they should be doing is making themselves aware of the symptoms . |
| 13 | Seljalandsfoss is a ponytail of a waterfall throwing itself clear of the rim of its cliff to look like a 1950s American college girl shaking her head . |
| 14 | And they 've been making it for right on four years now , backed by the colourful and wily One Little Indian label , earning themselves Single Of The Week round here pretty much every time they put one out , and doing quite nicely in end-of-year writers ' charts too . |
| 15 | There they took a different path from the High Elves and wandered far from the mainstream of Elf culture , declaring themselves independent of the Phoenix Throne . |