Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 3 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 4 | He found himself with the duty of helping to make a vital decision for the Church of England at a moment in its destiny . |
| 5 | Mr Attlee was careful to position himself with the majority view in Cabinet . |
| 6 | Kruger did n't soil himself with the lucre , but Lorre had his fist out at every opportunity , and was wadding the bills into a fat , healthy roll while his master attempted union with the Infinite . |
| 7 | It is a problem which seems curiously common to left-arm spinners , and manifests itself with the bowler either failing to release the ball , or propelling it vertically into the air . |
| 8 | As the nappy fell apart , a rich brown revelation mingled itself with the scent of talcum powder . |
| 9 | Decentralization permits each locality to provide itself with the quantity of the good it prefers . |
| 10 | She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him . |
| 11 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 12 | Sorrel excelled herself with the meal , although her father never mentioned it . |
| 13 | ‘ Sara has never concerned herself with the business . ’ |
| 14 | In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger . |
| 15 | ‘ Her ’ lipstick was constantly having to be renewed as more and more people found themselves with the impression of a pair of very red lips on their faces . |
| 16 | Er and you , you , you provided yourself with the uniform before you came as a student nurse so that was alright for the first year , so you 'd no uniform to provide . |
| 17 | ‘ Still , at least you seem to appreciate I 've given you the plum job , whilst landing myself with the task of keeping an eye on Fedorov . |
| 18 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 19 | Practise the above and familiarise yourself with the co-ordination required for turns in each direction before trying to fly proper circuits . |
| 20 | Familiarise yourself with the problem 2 . |
| 21 | Familiarise yourself with the law relating to archaeological sites . |
| 22 | For magistrates ' courts , familiarise yourself with The Sentence of the Court , the booklet published by the Government for magistrates ; for the Crown Court read particularly D.A . |
| 23 | Familiarise yourself with The Engineering Council 's Code of Conduct , authorised under its Bye–Laws and with any relevant codes provided by your own Institution or professional association . |
| 24 | Familiarise yourself with the Strategy on p.27 and learn to be purposeful , active and flexible in your reading habits . |
| 25 | Western institutional theorists have concerned themselves with the problem of ensuring that the exercise of governmental power , which is essential to the realization of the values of their societies , should be controlled in order that it should not itself be destructive of the values it was intended to promote . |
| 26 | It is this portability aspect of programs , and the conventional hardware — software distinction that goes with it , that has most interested those in AI who have concerned themselves with the relation of brains to minds : there has been an easy temptation to exploit the hardware — software distinction as a model of the brain — mind distinction . |
| 27 | I will learn to know myself with the help of my inner teacher . |
| 28 | Again I felt that terrible pain and sickness , but a few seconds later I found myself with the face and body and character of Henry Jekyll once more . |
| 29 | He told them : ‘ You are weak people , you will always be weak people unless you can arm yourselves with the strength and courage required to gaze back into the questioning eyes of children ’ . |
| 30 | This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows . |