Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melanie had joined us , having put Antiope to bed somewhere among the tents , and so had her minder Tricia , though she was n't slamming with us , rather contenting herself with a small carton of yoghurt drink and a straw . |
| 2 | British liberal political thought , hitherto contenting itself with a more or less straightforward advocacy of laissez-faire non-interventionist policies , began to transform itself into what has been called " social liberalism " . |
| 3 | Somehow they had found out that there was a prisoner in the hospital and Eric suddenly found himself with a guard of three carabinieri who were ordered to watch over him night and day and never let him out of their sight until arrangements could be made to send him to Germany . |
| 4 | Inland , you can get close to the countryside with a few days on a farm or perhaps pamper yourself with a luxury hotel . |
| 5 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 6 | William , we may remember , had thoughtfully provided himself with a burial plot many years before : so square L9 , grave no. 62,076 it was , as he was laid to rest at Abney Park . |
| 7 | Because some of the features are handled by add-on software , like Inset and Star Exchange , you suddenly find yourself with a slightly different set of menu commands to learn . |
| 8 | And if the deceased director owned a majority shareholding , the surviving directors could suddenly find themselves with a new boss . |
| 9 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 10 | The ladies , therefore , had four or five babies as quickly after marriage as nature would permit , and thus provided themselves with an indefinite number of conversational gambits . |
| 11 | Rulers who argue that a country has to be well-off before it can afford to be politically decent to its people are generally providing themselves with an excuse for continuing in their bad old ways . |
| 12 | All the world knows that the Mohammedans , following the example of their master , Mohammed , are very licentious ; wherefore the men among them do not content themselves with a few wives , but seek every method of gratifying themselves in this particular . |
| 13 | Generally , though , I did not concern myself with a batsman 's standing . |
| 14 | If you are sure she wants to see you and you feel that you should go , your only hope of making the visit a success is not to drag yourself with a reluctant sense of duty to her front door , groaning inwardly at the thought of it . |
| 15 | Joe Reynolds and Amy Winship might just find themselves with a long weekend ! ’ |
| 16 | Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back . |
| 17 | The Miller , in his tale , re-emerges in the target figure that superficially seems meant to represent the Reeve ; the Reeve then retrospectively identifies himself with a trickster and target figure : the trickster who makes a fool of the character supposed to represent him but who is subsequently made a fool of himself from another quarter . |
| 18 | The cement floor was cold underfoot and the water colder , so I washed quickly and jumped out on to the carpet , gratefully rubbing myself with a towel which the Sheikha had given me . |
| 19 | This lorry would quickly find himself with a police escort . |
| 20 | She tried to find a moment to squeeze in a bit of rest at the sauna , something she could not do during the week ; in the late afternoon , she would always find herself with a vacuum cleaner and duster , because the cleaning woman who came on Fridays was becoming more and more careless . |
| 21 | He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter . |
| 22 | They manufacture a polysaccharide ( sugar ) based mucus covering to disguise their otherwise protein based body structure and they also cover themselves with a thin coating of the anemone 's own mucus . |
| 23 | Apart from helping her , I have also helped myself with a domestic who is more efficient and devoted because her mind is free of family problems ’ . |
| 24 | They will have to stop thorns getting through to your skin — otherwise you had better also equip yourself with a fine needle , tweezers , and a strong light ! |
| 25 | He had nearly saddled himself with a desperate , thirty-one-year-old fan . |
| 26 | Promotion required successful completion of an examination , and no captain would willingly saddle himself with an incompetent watchkeeping officer when that officer 's negligence could lead to the loss of the ship and the captain 's inevitable court-martial . |
| 27 | They would attend parties or receptions ( often fortifying themselves with a drink or two in advance ) , and would frequently dine together . |
| 28 | ‘ Rickie Crowninshield , ’ I said stiffly , ‘ has already lost the sight of one eye because of cocaine , and if he does n't stop using the drug then he will almost certainly go to jail or even kill himself with an overdose . ’ |
| 29 | I wished that I was less inhibited by my upbringing and could have done some extraordinary thing to confirm her diagnosis — danced on the table or stated that I would n't ally myself with a man with a face like a toothpaste advertisement . |
| 30 | Lewis , a metre behind , equalled the old world record of 9.93 seconds but could not even console himself with a new American best for he only equalled the time of Calvin Smith . |