Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan 's account is , in fact , a not unsympathetic one of Eliot punishing himself , denying himself the small pleasures or luxuries which someone of his wealth and distinction could have enjoyed : " He always took his wine flavoured with guilt " . |
| 2 | Then his face contorted in pain , and she knew instinctively with infinite relief that it was the face of a man reluctantly denying himself the sexual release he patently craved by wielding a superhuman control . |
| 3 | She gulped , barely capable of denying herself the inevitable . |
| 4 | The self-abnegation of Friends , emptying themselves the better to be filled by the Light Within , did not then necessarily exclude the pursuit of righteousness in the world ; equally , in the outlook of growing numbers of Quakers in the early nineteenth century , this stance could merge with a stress on the experience of grace which aligned them with evangelicals . |
| 5 | ‘ But I will , ’ he said softly , allowing himself the smallest of smiles . |
| 6 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 7 | SERVANT : My lady , a gentleman calling himself the noble Spaniard waits to see you . |
| 8 | An anonymous caller to a newspaper claimed that a ( previously unknown ) Islamic fundamentalist group calling itself the Islamic Movement had killed Ucok because of her secularist and feminist stand against the current fundamentalist campaign for the veiling of women . |
| 9 | On June 23 a group calling itself the Islamic Liberation Front threatened to carry out terrorist attacks against the Kuwaiti government unless it cancelled the death sentences . |
| 10 | There was brawling at the Republicans ' conference in West Berlin in July 1989 and in mid-October a splinter group calling itself the Democratic Republicans of Germany ( Demokratische Republikaner Deutschlands ) was formed in Hannover . |
| 11 | They had been arrested on Dec. 17 and held at the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in Abidjan accused of the possession of documents supporting a group calling itself the Democratic Convention of African People , material considered hostile to the Eyadema regime . |
| 12 | The adoption by the BCP congress of a moderate reformist manifesto did not dissuade members of a BCP faction calling itself the Alternative Socialist Organization ( ASO — the most radical of several pro-reform factions which had emerged in the party in January ) from carrying out a threat to split from the BCP and form a new social democratic party . |
| 13 | The celebrant was to be something calling itself the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain ( Marxist-Leninist ) . |
| 14 | Other incidents included explosions on April 2 and 3 , 1989 , which caused damage at the British Cultural Centre in Kizilay ; a group calling itself the Revolutionary Left claimed responsibility . |
| 15 | On May 7th farmers , politicians and ex-generals who oppose majority rule met in Pretoria to launch a new alliance calling itself the Afrikaner Volksfront , or Afrikaner People 's Front . |
| 16 | The group , calling itself the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy ( ULIMO ) , was also reportedly supported by members of the Libyan-trained Movement for Justice in Africa ( MOJA ) , led by Boima Fahnbulleh . |
| 17 | However , the authorities in Serbia on Jan. 13 banned an opposition party calling itself the Serbian National Renewal because of its overtly nationalist programme . |
| 18 | Only then did the navy begin calling itself the Senior Service — reference to the fact that it was around long before the East India Trading Company . |
| 19 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front , which established itself as Burkina 's source of legislative and executive power . |
| 20 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front . |
| 21 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 22 | One of the most amusing was when a group calling itself the Renewable Energy Generating Board drove on to the proposed reactor site and installed a miniature array of ten-foot-high wind turbines . |
| 23 | From this disaster a coalition of community groups throughout the region was formed , calling itself the Appalachian Alliance , and with these groups placing questions of land ownership high on their agenda for discussion , the issues were raised to a new sense of awareness . |
| 24 | The move followed a series of attacks on white teachers by a group of pro-PAC black youths calling themselves the Revolutionary Watchdogs . |
| 25 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 26 | For Japanese to be discriminated against because of the colour of their skin , despite Japan 's success in proving herself the military and political equal of other powers , implied the virtual impossibility of Japan 's being accepted as a full equal by the industrialized nations of the West . |
| 27 | She stayed as she was , looking up at him from beneath her long black lashes , allowing herself the faintest smile of pleasure . |
| 28 | ‘ When are you going to let me know ? ’ she asked , clasping his hand , allowing herself the fleeting pleasure of his touch . |
| 29 | He was listening to old Legion marching songs and giving himself the Nazi salute in the mirror . |
| 30 | Jacob must be asking himself the same questions now . |