Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sexism rarely manifests itself so grotesquely as in the cohabitation rule , and hostility to it among feminists is virtually unanimous . |
| 2 | This requires him to immerse himself as thoroughly as he can in the life of the community he is trying to understand . |
| 3 | His eyes , blue-green , were set widely apart on a face which was defining itself rapidly now as unforgettable . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember now , but I still love it and continue to be amazed every time I see it in a catalogue for it seeds itself as freely as any common plantain . |
| 5 | It is important that this potentially very valuable approach safeguards itself so far as possible against misinterpretation : in particular , that the content of religious belief does not really matter , that knowledge of religious tradition is unimportant , and that any opinions and beliefs are acceptable so long as they are sincerely held . |
| 6 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
| 7 | Pursued by the press , both men hid themselves as well as they could . |
| 8 | To make this system more effective , animals emphasise their own scent by marking themselves as enthusiastically as their territories . |
| 9 | Believing that people were always like we are , they just did n't understand themselves as well as we do , leads to dangerous historical inaccuracies . |
| 10 | Had the man not have defended himself as well as he did he could well have received very serious injuries . |
| 11 | Duvall collided with him in the rush , nearly flinging him to the corridor floor , but Cardiff clung to the door knob and swung himself back again as Rohmer and Gilbert hurtled past him . |
| 12 | Lorton raised himself as far as he could . |
| 13 | If he put down sheets of newspaper in the kitchen to keep the floor clean on wet days , one of his cats would back up to the far wall and then launch herself as fast as she could at the papers . |
| 14 | There was nothing to be gained by worrying further , so he settled himself as comfortably as possible against the trunk of the tree . |
| 15 | He had n't purged himself as completely as he had thought . |
| 16 | Information is increasingly a very marketable product and the advance of information technology gives the library , as a major source of information as well as an important user of information technology , the opportunity to take advantage of the strong current interest , and promote itself as aggressively as the purveyors of the hardware and software . |
| 17 | I enjoyed Richard who was a casual , almost brutal lover , his desire rising and spending itself as impatiently as mine , so that I did not have to suffer all that tedious , preliminary business of fondling and stroking , and I enjoyed my baby , which surprised me as I had not expected to . |
| 18 | In such emergency situations your dog will be frightened anyway , and you will need to protect yourself as far as possible against being bitten . |
| 19 | The breakthrough will come when all these players in the tourism game begin to market themselves not just as providing value for money , but value for the environment . |
| 20 | Since his surplus stock may be in keen demand he may not be able to supply you — but he can at least point you in the right direction by suggesting alternative sources , ones that have proved themselves so far as he is concerned . |
| 21 | If you are interested please contact myself as soon as possible and a confidentiality letter will be sent to you . |
| 22 | He dived away at the double and took himself as far as his long legs would carry him . |
| 23 | The roofs were most often not their own : long since , the community had drawn in from its perimeter , sharing its water , its food and its warmth , and distancing itself so far as might be from the walls and the thud of the cannon . |
| 24 | Oh well , she could n't drag herself as far as the Rex . |
| 25 | This is probably the most difficult material to handle because the many characters and nationalities involved in the various available libretti must express themselves as distinctively as they do in real life and the choreographer must try and ensure his design has some semblance of reality if it is to communicate meaning . |
| 26 | In the coming weeks and months , ask yourself as often as you can remember : ‘ Why am I creating this ? |
| 27 | They use delinquent criteria in order to distance themselves as far as possible from conventional ones , and hence insulate themselves from a sense of failure . |
| 28 | Danquah 's evidence was somewhat defensive , even apologetic : Nkrumah felt that their intention was to distance themselves as far as possible from his pronouncements and actions . |
| 29 | Yet even though Daniel had spread himself as far as he could , including making himself a primitive chapel out of an east-facing bedroom , there was still a good deal of vicarage left over . |
| 30 | If Lord Eldon used any language which could be so interpreted , we must conclude that he either did not guard himself so cautiously as he intended , or that he did not lend that degree of attention to the legal doctrine connected with the case before him , which he was accustomed to afford . |