Example sentences of "[noun] be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And which of those , ’ said McGee , who clearly had a relationship with her , ‘ would you think the Bishop and the Canon and the Dean and the Archdeacon are pleasuring themselves with ? ’ |
| 2 | AS the curtain comes down on Courage League rugby for 1992 , the game 's elite are gearing themselves for the biggest dog-fight since the competition 's inception six years ago . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) . |
| 4 | For this in Edinburgh there is a sort of a forum where er organizations are set themselves round the table and say this is what , the sort of idea that we 're gon na do for the next year and a half |
| 5 | Various bodies in Manufacturing Industry are working themselves into one of their regular lathers about the supposed low social esteem bestowed upon engineers and engineering . |
| 6 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 7 | They had demolished Leeds in such a pyschologically damaging fashion on Saturday at Maine Road that Howard Wilkinson 's side were steeling themselves for disappointment . |
| 8 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 9 | The initial record of all food and drink consumed for a week helped us to see if our clients were depriving themselves of food for long periods and if they were eating balanced meals . |
| 10 | I thought that if FAKINTIL were confining themselves to bringing the mast down , then they would be just escaping now , shooting their way out of town . |
| 11 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 12 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 13 | With more emphasis on household products , does this mean that Marks and Spencer is turning itself into a supermarket ? |
| 14 | ‘ In a way , Jeff is putting himself in the position of being a cultural martyr , ’ says Ned Rifkin , exhibition curator for Washington DC 's Hirshhorn Museum , part of the prestigious Smithsonian Institution . |
| 15 | ENGLISH football is bracing itself for an invasion of South African soccer talent . |
| 16 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 17 | Yes , in his own quiet way Summerchild is presenting himself to an audience . |
| 18 | The print industry is bracing itself for industrial action from next Monday , Printing World reports . |
| 19 | Stylistically , Samson is distancing itself from the very audience it should inspire , but by doing so Milton is helping to avoid potential censorship and a silencing altogether . |
| 20 | As far as the programme itself was concerned , she felt it was a ‘ classic example of the way in which the BBC , with its penchant for ‘ South Bank ’ religion was allowing itself to be used as a launching platform for the ‘ new morality ’ ’ . |
| 21 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 22 | David was warming himself by a fire in the centre of the hut ; he was almost nude and had never worn anything other than a coarse blanket which was slightly tied round him to cover his back . |
| 23 | There was even a time , John said later , when his one ambition was to devote himself to horses , but his father was not especially enthusiastic about that idea . |
| 24 | Rune Christensen was amusing himself at her expense . |
| 25 | The belief was that to ritually and voluntarily — and I stress the word ‘ voluntarily ’ — shed one 's own blood was to recommend oneself to and establish a link with the Creator of the Universe , and this is precisely what happened with circumcision . |
| 26 | Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music . |
| 27 | Leith 's mutiny ebbed when she thought how ill and distraught Travis was making himself over his love , and the seed of an idea of appealing to Travis to save her job withered before it was half born . |
| 28 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 29 | However , an increasing number of countries are committing themselves to the goal of immunising 80% of their children by 1990 under the World Health Organization 's Extended Programme on Immunisation ( EPI ) . |
| 30 | YOUNGSTERS are gorging themselves on junk food — eating up to EIGHT snacks a day . |