Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pn reflx] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Melanesian group , stretching in a broken line to the east of the immense and mountainous island of Papua New Guinea , includes the Solomons , Vanuatu and Fiji , each an independent , free-standing state ; but the Australians look after Norfolk Island , and there are French possessions too , in New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands , with gendarmes , soldiers from Lyons and Marseilles , and offices of that wondrously-named bureaucracy , the DOM-TOM , which concerns itself with the Déartements Outres-Mer et Territoires Outres-Mer . |
| 2 | There is also a sizeable literature on explaining the size distribution of income which concerns itself with the specific shape this takes ( positively skewed ( right-hand tail ) and leptokurtic ( hump-shaped ) or leptokurtic lognormal ) , both over different time periods and in different countries . |
| 3 | Both are relevant under this heading , which concerns itself with the benefit side of the government budget . |
| 4 | Spurred on by her envious sisters , who convince her that her mystery spouse is really a foul serpent , she arms herself with a lamp to see him with and knife to attack him with . |
| 5 | No real thought seems to have been bestowed on the important principle involved either by Day J. , who … appears to found his decision simply on the above dictum of Pollock C.B. , which happens to mention corruption , as one of the inapposite illustrations of an unsound proposition , or by Lawrance J. , who contents himself with a bare expression of concurrence . |
| 6 | Then she corrects herself with a laugh . |
| 7 | Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters , however independent and tolerant he may be , write a fair-minded book about Pound ? |
| 8 | We should now be in a position to answer Herbert Schniedau 's question : ‘ Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters … write a fair-minded book about Pound ? ’ |
| 9 | One concerns itself with the sorts of personal qualities that are suited to teaching . |
| 10 | In the second case one identifies oneself with the worst aspects of the society . |
| 11 | It allies itself with no political party , no outside cause . |
| 12 | Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ . |
| 13 | Instead of comparing himself with them and feeling satisfied , he compares himself with a boy who 's much better off financially . |
| 14 | He surrounds himself with a considered disarray of natural objects ; piles of logs for the open fire , wooden rustic chairs , a chinese screen and antique rugs thrown over the parquet floor . |
| 15 | He surrounds himself with an entourage of loyal courtiers , some from the store , others from the office , taking several at a time for convivial weekends of dog-walking , tennis and log fires at his country villa on the River Po — a sharp contrast to the rather gloomy , solitary week nights he spends in the industrial wasteland of the Via Borgonuovo . |
| 16 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 17 | So perhaps it is no wonder that we are not the only ones who perceive the system as unjust , and that it finds itself with a crisis of legitimacy on its hands . |
| 18 | He identifies himself with the prophets of the Old Testament in addressing contemporary life , and echoes St Paul when he sees himself keeping the streams of doctrine pure : ‘ For I am inquisitive in the Lord , and defend the philosophy of the scripture against vain deceit ’ ( A130 ) . |
| 19 | ( He catches himself with a giggle in a vacuum and sits down again . ) |
| 20 | It burdens itself with the consequences of its own indifference to what is best . |