Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [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 astonished myself with this realization . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She busied herself with some clothes . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Er , you know , he saved hisself with this er |