Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | when we do use our staff , we have the advantage that they are not restricted to a fixed location , but are mobile within districts and organise themselves with minimum supervision and are already capable of using high productivity equipment . |
| 2 | In cultures the world over , women ( and in many cultures , men too ) have made their skin silky by bathing in oils , scented themselves with delicious perfumes , draped themselves in satin , velvet , silk and feathers , braided , brushed or oiled their hair , painted their lips and darkened their eyes and weighted themselves with gold and silver , or heavy ornaments . |
| 3 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 4 | Alter that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet soap which Helen had put in my bag . |
| 5 | When on the ground , they walk on the sides of their clenched feet and support themselves with their hands . |
| 6 | Once installed , tenants were regularly visited by voluntary lady rent-collectors whose task was to advise tenants on the management of the household or other aspects of their lives — how to sweep their floors , wash their children and clothing and to conduct themselves with propriety . |
| 7 | They inflicted wounds on themselves in the sword dance and castigated themselves with ankle whips made of leather and bone , sprinkling the altar of the goddess with their blood . |
| 8 | Corbett could scarcely understand some of the accents and contented himself with gazing around . |
| 9 | That we are really praying for peace and identifying ourselves with peace struggle in Ireland . |
| 10 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |
| 11 | Many blind people struggle to pay their bills and provide themselves with the necessities of life . |
| 12 | Keep yourself clean from head to foot and provide yourself with opening medicine in case of need . |
| 13 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 14 | After your bath or shower , grit your teeth and splash yourself with cold water ! |
| 15 | In summary , then , at present advocates of an orthodox Marxist-Leninist ( Soviet-inspired ) solution to Latin American problems do not enjoy much support , and it seems clear that Communist parties need to develop more flexible strategies and to ally themselves with the broader left if they are to sustain an effective role in political life . |
| 16 | He drove his Volvo to a beauty spot last month , drank most of a bottle of whisky and gassed himself with fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 17 | She had lied and deceived , she had painted her lips with toxic red paint from a box of water colours or with the less toxic red dye of rationed Smarties , she had darkened her lashes with shoe polish and perfumed herself with sample offers of cheap perfume solicited through sycophantic correspondence with cosmetic manufacturers . |
| 18 | Foster screamed in panic as he felt the cruel steel slice his flesh , and he threw himself bodily away from his attacker , hitting the ground in a rolling break-fall and spraying himself with his own urine as he did so . |
| 19 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 20 | When Louis died a few months later , Thibaut aligned with a league of dissident barons who opposed the regent of France , Louis 's widow Blanche of Castile , but he soon abandoned the barons and reconciled himself with Blanche . |
| 21 | He was a dour middle-aged man , who feared he was a failure and compensated himself with an excessively professorial beard and a punctiliously formal manner . |
| 22 | You must also buy a copy of Debrett and familiarize yourself with the names of those people in society we hope will become our clients . |
| 23 | Holliman decided that they had to take cover , so they scuttled into a patch of scrub and camouflaged themselves with nets . |
| 24 | I went to my room and calmed myself with some invisible mending . |
| 25 | It was at that time that I interviewed David 's mother , Margaret Jones , who recalled a three-year-old David discovering a bag of make-up in an upstairs room and plastering himself with it , and how at one point she thought he would become a ballet dancer . |
| 26 | The first step must be to visit the LOCUS and familiarize oneself with , for example , road layout in an R.T.A. or operation of machinery relative to a factory accident , where one has access thereto . |
| 27 | Bracing his knees against the gunwale and steadying himself with one hand on the mizzen backstay , he prepared to relieve himself over the stern . |
| 28 | ‘ We will review the matter at that stage ’ he said , adding that ‘ henceforth Mr O'Reilly will conduct his business within the rules and regulations and acquaint himself with these regulations . ’ |
| 29 | Love voted for exclusion and concerned himself with related topics . |
| 30 | No wonder men and women alike roar and wet themselves with fright and delight as the horns scrape past the boldly offered ( and artificially enhanced ) raison d'être . |