Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left , contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval . |
| 2 | We are bracing ourselves in the Administration Centre for what promises to be an even better year two targetting very substantial growth over year one . |
| 3 | This kind of argument reads well in Callinicos ' hands , but it is worth reminding ourselves of the unattractive reality to which it bears witness . |
| 4 | That 's why we should now make a start on reminding ourselves of the relevance of our own particular life story . |
| 5 | Let us finish by reminding ourselves of the traditional skills and purposes of historians . |
| 6 | Perhaps now we can take Mill 's insight on board without opening ourselves to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 7 | Seating ourselves on the trunk of an old ash-tree that stretched along the ground , Coleridge read aloud with a sonorous and musical voice , the ballad of Betty Foy . |
| 8 | Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er |
| 9 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 10 | ‘ And my name 's Ashley Fleming , ’ Ashley said , fearful that Simon might start patting himself on the back yet again . |
| 11 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 12 | Jesus releases us from this addiction by revealing himself as the willing servant , humbled to the point of death , submitting his will to the will of God . |
| 13 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 14 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 15 | Pressing himself against the last wagon he peered around the side for any sign of the guards . |
| 16 | He swallowed hard and ran to the back door , pressing himself against the wall beside it . |
| 17 | Pressing himself against the wall he looked down at the body . |
| 18 | Bent almost double , he darted towards the kitchen , pressing himself against the wall . |
| 19 | JH : When launching , say , into Beethoven 's Op. 2 No. 3 C major Sonata ( for example ) , do you still find yourself thinking very much of ‘ Beethoven the young lion ’ announcing himself to the world ? |
| 20 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 21 | He became adept at launching himself over the canoe 's side ; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit , a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it . |
| 22 | Now he was naked too beside her and making pantomime bows to his guests before launching himself into the night . |
| 23 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 24 | Ellie cried , as she saw Mike hurling himself at the unprepared Patsy . |
| 25 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 26 | With a bound , he was up and giving chase , hurling himself down the stairs . |
| 27 | ‘ Milord , milord , ’ he shouted , hurling himself towards the pair in the prow . |
| 28 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 29 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 30 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |