Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life … |
| 2 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 3 | Pearson used these years to provide himself with an artistic education , listening to music , reading widely , and growing increasingly responsive to the beauties of the English countryside . |
| 4 | But his lordship 's grandfather was a cautious man , and provided himself with a secret way out at need . |
| 5 | After 1815 he first involved himself with the religious and social work of Thomas Chalmers [ q.v. ] in Glasgow and then moved to London where he initially promoted seamen 's charities and was an associate of the Evangelical Clapham sect . |
| 6 | Beaten 6–3 , 6–3 in their previous encounter , 6ft 5ins tall Ainley , a former Hampshire County choice , avenged himself with a superb display to take the title at the fourth attempt with a 6–2 , 6–1 win . |
| 7 | I note that , yet again , the Liberal party is aligning itself with the Labour party on social and taxation matters . |
| 8 | It was also , in his view , unpardonable on grounds of principle , since by the autumn of 1940 Vichy seemed to be aligning itself with the foreign policy of the Nazi regime and aspects of its political ideology . |
| 9 | Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly . |
| 10 | A starling anointing itself with the defensive fluids of an ant . |
| 11 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 12 | About to batter the floor with her heel , Lissa stopped herself with a superhuman effort and held herself rigid . |
| 13 | She was tied up until lunch with yet another department meeting but , after a sandwich in the refectory , found herself with a clear afternoon . |
| 14 | And provide yourself with a little amusement into the bargain ? ’ |
| 15 | Abolitionists provided themselves with a collective equivalent to the practice of personal scrutiny in their annual meetings . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The family found themselves with a gutted ruin and one surviving wing . |
| 18 | So , as the 71/72 season dawned , Athletico found themselves with a new team , a new league and a bright future . |
| 19 | Having clarified your objectives , and provided yourself with the necessary resources , make a start . |
| 20 | The landed gentry of Wiltshire and Dorset do , after all , have a knowledge of their counties that goes generations deep , and they are somewhat dismayed to find themselves with an academic bishop who has never been a parish priest and who , they feel , does not understand the nature of rural society . |
| 21 | Paper circulates today in vast quantities , and you need only to retrieve some of this to provide yourself with an adequate body of notes at no cost at all . |
| 22 | Wild fish ‘ accidentally ’ provide themselves with the right mix of fats , vitamins , minerals , proteins and carbohydrates ; our Koi have no such choice . |
| 23 | Inland , you can get close to the countryside with a few days on a farm or perhaps pamper yourself with a luxury hotel . |
| 24 | A few developed a liking for the racecourse and as it had been drummed into them to dress correctly for every occasion , somehow they managed to provide themselves with the obligatory long trailing gowns by lending each other clothes and accessories ; they appreciated the elegance of their suave escorts in tail coats and top hats . |
| 25 | Test yourself with the following passage , which contains misspelt words taken from examination scripts . |
| 26 | John Marshall was given ample time to cross and Farrell redeemed himself with an unstoppable half volley . |
| 27 | He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge . |
| 28 | He gave support to William Wallace in his fight for Scottish independence but deserted him and aligned himself with the English King Edward I who was trying to dominate Scotland . |
| 29 | He aligned himself with the Social Christian Party for the 1990 elections , saying that Nicaragua should be free from the influence of the superpowers . |
| 30 | Rather than contenting himself with a specific and clearly defined puzzle , Poulantzas aims to give a broad account of the capitalist state , which will show what it is and what it does by revealing its connections with the various instances of the social whole . |