Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would continue to define her ex-husband as diminishingly efficient , and he would go on seeing himself as an ill-equipped buffoon who had stumbled into six years of brazen luck . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If Kee , who is far from ignorant in these matters , wanted to go on starving herself for the sake of an old love which is dead and rotting in the ground , well , so be it , that is her business . |
| 4 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | She tried to make allowances , constantly reminding herself of the responsibility Nathan was carrying and how long he had been without sleep . |
| 7 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 8 | She had risen this morning with the intention of going into town and meandering among the shops , perhaps treating herself to a new bonnet , or buying Cissie those pretty boots she had so admired some days ago when the two of them had walked up and down Ainsworth Street , browsing in all the shop-windows ; afterwards , Beth might have called in to the delightful tea rooms at the comer of the boulevard . |
| 9 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 10 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
| 11 | ‘ Your'e better hurting yourself at the time , because you 're going to feel awful when you see the paper and it 's not right , ’ he rationalizes . |
| 12 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 13 | And , like the romantic fool I was , I thought Mathilda was only offering herself in an act of desperation . |
| 14 | Lindsay Crosby : 51 , youngest son of the singer Bing Crosby , found dead in his Los Angeles home after apparently shooting himself in the head with a smallbore rifle . |
| 15 | We have always said that it is not for nothing that the Unix prompts are dollar and percentage signs and at last somebody out there has the common sense to recognise that fact too : the new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4 to 6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix ’ ; if that does n't bring the punters piling in , nothing will . |
| 16 | The new Unix Reseller Show , set for May 4–6 in Dallas , is blatantly promoting itself with the slogan ‘ How To Make Money With Unix . ’ |
| 17 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor is faces up to the most important year of his career , already bracing himself for a row which could undermine his World Cup plans . |
| 18 | She criticised the showing on television of ‘ pictures of young black teenagers taking calculated — and cheerful — running kicks at plate-glass shop windows , coolly helping themselves to the goods inside , shoes , shirts or whatever they could lay their hands on ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |
| 20 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
| 21 | Wood shattered as Bodie 's shot narrowly missed him , penetrating the shed and finally expending itself on a brick wall . |
| 22 | I think you can be much more relaxed about the way your child 's growing up if you 're not over-investing yourself in the way it grows up , if you follow me . |
| 23 | Shah Jehan , not contenting himself with the women he had in his palaces , forfeited the respect of his nobles by intrigues with their wives … |
| 24 | He was a great man and I never ceased to admire him , either discussing critically the quality of a poem or composition , analysing the contents or production of a programme , dealing with the political aspects of CBC policy from Head Office or just enjoying himself in a piano duet with Arthur Benjamin . |
| 25 | The machineheads are in the older Kluson style , with incredibly convenient slotted string posts for tucking those unwieldy string ends into , thus protecting oneself from the horrors associated with hypodermic guitar string injury . |
| 26 | A positive attitude is and important asset when it comes to maintaining a workout regime , and that comes with knowing that you are not pitting yourself against the impossible . |
| 27 | I 'm not patting myself on the back — it 's a highly competitive business and one needs selfish , single-minded dedication to succeed , but because female comics were rare in my day , competition was negligible , and I was able to be generous . |
| 28 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ she said with feeling , dispelling a pang of guilt with the observation that she was certainly not presenting herself in a flattering light . |
| 29 | The PSI leader Bettino Craxi , whose reputation had suffered indirectly from corruption scandals in Milan [ see p. 38896 ] , had announced on June 17 that he was no longer presenting himself as a candidate for Prime Minister , but had given President Oscar Scalfaro a list of three PSI candidates — Amato , outgoing Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis , and outgoing Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Claudio Martelli . |
| 30 | Julie rolled over , finally propping herself against the back door , touching the bolts there to reassure herself that it was locked . |