Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our terms of reference made it clear that we were to concern ourselves with the English curriculum for all pupils , whatever their mother tongue . |
| 2 | I were killing myself with laughter ! |
| 3 | In no time senators were renaming themselves with longer and longer titles so that their seconds should be bigger than everyone else 's . |
| 4 | She was impressing herself with her ability to inject a casual calm into her voice , to compose her features in the darkness of the car . |
| 5 | If Madeleine was enjoying herself with her ‘ Pogo ’ , he could enjoy himself with Cora-Beth , who probably cared about him far more than Madeleine ever had . |
| 6 | Billie was fanning herself with the blanket to cool the sweat that was running down her body . |
| 7 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 8 | Those first six dancers had come to celebrate the newly awakened school of English classical dance that was establishing itself with the coming of peace . |
| 9 | The intention of the ‘ residents ’ was to familiarize themselves with sections of the working class , to develop a sense of contact , both physical and spiritual , between rich and poor . |
| 10 | Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music . |
| 11 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 12 | When he exiled himself to Jersey , it was to surround himself with ‘ the sinister sheep of the sea ’ , ‘ the hydra-headed dragon ’ , which had become for him an image of the abyss , of fate , and of God . |
| 13 | ‘ The first time I met Samantha , ’ Bob says , ‘ I 'll never forget this , she was surrounded by these six guys and she was funking herself with a vibrator . |
| 14 | General Francis had risen from his chair by the examination couch and was supporting himself with his sticks . |
| 15 | He was defending himself with great skill , every now and then sliding his hands down the staff and striking at a distance with its full length , and then suddenly changing direction and bringing the shortened end up in a jab at the face or stomach of one of the attackers he had tempted to come too close . |
| 16 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |
| 17 | Cameron began to wonder if Mr Menzies was identifying himself with Job , and when he ended ringingly on ‘ Shall we receive good at the hand of God , and shall we not receive evil ? ’ , the suspicion was confirmed . |
| 18 | Gandhi himself claimed that his purpose in fasting was to take upon himself the burden of the workers ; he was identifying himself with them and sharing their despair , frustration and suffering . |
| 19 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |
| 20 | When after I became a Christian I obeyed and was baptized , it was n't to make me a better person it was n't to make me er , someone who was , er more pious or more religious , or of having greater favour with God , it was done because he had commanded it in his word , and I was identifying myself with him . |
| 21 | The theremin was playing itself with passion , with feeling . |
| 22 | These ‘ cardinal points ’ , they now proposed , should find expression through a series of experimental poems in which Coleridge was to concern himself with subjects ‘ supernatural , or at least romantic ’ , and Wordsworth was to ‘ give the charm of novelty to things of every day ’ , seeking for characters and incidents ‘ such … as will be found in every village ’ . |
| 23 | I could understand how she felt ; I realized that anyone who convinced herself that , when she took the holy biscuit she was uniting herself with God , would find it easy to convince herself that in death she would be united with her daughter . |
| 24 | Rivington was hugging himself with glee , as they approached Hyde Park Corner . |
| 25 | He was killing himself with laughing , but dashed over to the security man and put Kenny out of his misery . |