Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if that child is sensitive and caring and does not wish to hurt or disappoint his parents , perhaps he may even enter the medical profession and spend years doing something he does not really want to do while denying himself the opportunity of fulfilling his life in the way he would have chosen . |
| 2 | He fixed his eyes on the prophecy with fresh deliberation , denying himself the comfort of blinking to be certain he missed nothing . |
| 3 | That means you 'd be denying yourself the beauty and privilege of being a parent . ’ |
| 4 | Nor had Innocent any intention of allowing himself the humiliation of Lateran I where the council defeated the pope . |
| 5 | And though the winner was US-bred , owned by a Saudi Arabian prince and ridden by an Irish-born jockey , this was a moment of the utmost sweetness for British racing , for Dancing Brave , here proving himself the horse of the decade by treating with contempt an international field of the highest quality , was trained in Sussex by Guy Harwood . |
| 6 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 7 | The creditor may have done enough by superintending himself the execution of the document and by attempting to assure himself by means of questions or explanation that she knows to what she is committing herself . |
| 8 | She should have stayed away , had dinner alone with Richard somewhere , saving herself the pleasure and the pain of being near Luke . |
| 9 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 10 | Granting ourselves the time to speculate and dream of a world to come gives us a chance to prepare for and adapt to a future way of life . |
| 11 | Alternatively , will it be used primarily by an individual , teaching himself/herself the language as he/she works with a language assistant ? |
| 12 | She wanted to please him , to see him smile , and tease her by calling himself the Master , and pretending that she was his slave . |
| 13 | In the same period a peasant group calling itself the Union of the True was also advocating opposition to taxes . |
| 14 | The situation was complicated by the actions of other armed groups , possibly dissident units of the Jungle Commando , including the seizure on Oct. 13 of the bauxite mining town of Moengo , 100 km east of Paramaribo , by a group calling itself the Union for Liberation and Democracy , and by the growing involvement of both rebel and Army-backed groups in the production and trafficking of illegal drugs , particularly cocaine . |
| 15 | It is a mark of these half-crazed times that my programme of meetings , which once would have been dominated by political and scientific academy briefings , now includes something calling itself the Academy of Entrepreneurship , and an appointment with accountants advising more inward investors . |
| 16 | Within a few weeks of Glass 's abduction , a group calling itself the Organization of Good against Evil released video pictures of him allegedly confessing to being a spy . |
| 17 | A previously unknown organization calling itself the Organization for the Defence of the Rights of Prisoners and Detainees had issued a statement claiming responsibility for Leyraud 's abduction , describing him as a French intelligence officer and threatening that he would be executed if another hostage was released . |
| 18 | The claim came from a previously unheard-of group , calling itself the Organization of the Islamic Dawn . |
| 19 | ‘ Royal ’ arrest An Australian farmer and his wife who declared their Queensland farm an independent country , calling themselves the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough , have been arrested for defying a court order to hand over the property to receivers . |
| 20 | The zebra was released by people calling themselves the Animal Liberation Front |
| 21 | They developed a sort of regimental spirit about it , and started calling themselves the Firm . |
| 22 | Armed men calling themselves the Death Commandos took some two dozen Supreme Court judges and others hostage in San Jose , the capital of Costa Rica . |
| 23 | But since the pain I have to experience to learn the concept is necessarily my pain , this explanation leads to our asking ourselves the question , ‘ What possible reason could I have to think that other people ever have what I mean by ‘ pain ’ ? ’ — a question which invites the answers , ‘ None ’ ( solipsism ) or , alternatively ‘ An argument from analogy ’ . |
| 24 | It was as if he were scouring all the weakness out of himself by an equivalent to giving himself the disease . |
| 25 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 26 | Giving herself the advantage of surprise , she ripped open the door . |
| 27 | The answer is to develop the habit of asking yourself the question ‘ What went well ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ As you follow him through the first forest , ’ he said , ‘ Remember this , if you can … keep asking yourself the question : why did he fail to return . |
| 29 | Similarly , he feels that by offering it as a no-cost option , the company invalidates the criticism that users will tie themselves into a non-standard technology : since V.32terbo is downwardly compatible with V.32bis , he points out that users are not losing anything by giving themselves the option of faster transmission with V.32terbo . |
| 30 | Fit in periods away from people , giving yourself the opportunity to renew your energy and rest your eyes . |