Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My original programme included the week 's Workshop in Jaipur and two lectures in Delhi , but in fact I found myself with many more professional engagements than this , through the Indian habit of ‘ cashing in ’ on one 's presence to arrange last minute lectures and seminars , and the Indian tendency to solicit one 's opinion of personal research , of Ph.D . |
| 2 | I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part . |
| 3 | I astonished myself with this realization . |
| 4 | Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument . |
| 5 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 6 | She busied herself with some clothes . |
| 7 | ‘ And you watch yourself with that fried egg . |
| 8 | But she had re-entered the world of music , she comforted herself with this ; in the least expected way she was back in the life from which Mike and his family and marriage had threatened to cut her off for ever . |
| 9 | We would therefore ask you to familiarise yourself with these requests so that you can take part fully in the discussion in your group . |
| 10 | We indulged ourselves with some jars of Marmite and bitter marmalade ( which proved not to go well with rice ) and an emergency medicinal bottle of Grand Marnier . |
| 11 | Even people we think of as being extremely rich will often grumble because they compare themselves with those who earn even more money than they do . |
| 12 | Endowed , as he was , with a compelling creative genius , he drove himself with little regard for his own health and welfare , contributing ( over and above his journalistic duties ) serial novels , literary and political commentaries , and poems to newspapers , and an increasing flow of scholarly articles and essays to monthly and quarterly journals . |
| 13 | Gedge explained its meaning to Splutter fanzine : ‘ It concerns itself with those factors which cause men to conform to a particular form of sexual stereotyping . |
| 14 | He compares himself with those whose hardened hearts are calloused and unfeeling , and then says : ‘ But I delight in your law . ’ |
| 15 | In his early days at the Bar he supported himself with such kindred activities as washing up at Lyons and libel reading for the News of the World . |
| 16 | Er , you know , he saved hisself with this er |
| 17 | At 30 , McEnroe is beginning to incline towards nostalgia , even though he leaves himself with little time to indulge in the luxury . |
| 18 | There is much abstruse learning on the subject ( see , in particular , the illuminating discussion by Windeyer J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 139–142 ) , but for present purposes it is not , I think , necessary for us to concern ourselves with this point of classification . |