Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rousing address finished with the exciting claim that ‘ IBM has been transforming itself into a solutions company ’ . |
| 2 | For the last five years Volkov has been drinking himself to death . |
| 3 | This may seem an unorthodox way of assuring management succession but then MB Group has been rearranging itself into a new structure for the future . |
| 4 | The company has been familiarising itself with the technology with its own experimental highly parallel scalar machine called the AP1000 , and it clearly does not trust the literature — it says that it was this machine that taught Fujitsu scientists that ‘ parallel supercomputing requires a radically different approach to programming ’ . |
| 5 | Unix International has been arming itself for the war against Microsoft NT . |
| 6 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 7 | I was surprised because she 'd been throwing herself at him all day and not getting anywhere much . ’ |
| 8 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |
| 9 | The first thing the three must do is disentangle themselves from the past . |
| 10 | What the court must do is place itself in thought in the same factual matrix as that of the parties ( Reardon Smith Line Ltd v Hansen-Tangen [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 570 ) . |
| 11 | What he has done is to supply himself with a ridiculous experience by the telling of which he could entertain several hundred people , without having to undergo the dispiriting strain of suffering it first . |
| 12 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 13 | If GA pilots want to get more out of AIS , what they need to do is familiarise themselves with Skymaster and ask AIS for what they want . |
| 14 | All you have to do is commit yourself to it . |
| 15 | ‘ What I 'm not prepared to do is commit myself to the club beyond that , until such time as a final plan , which I understand from the chairman was agreed in principle by all directors on Saturday night , has been formally ratified by all board members . |
| 16 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 17 | All I have to do is position myself against the banner . |
| 18 | You have to sympathise , because all he wants to do is establish himself in his own right , in his own style and ultimately be recognised for that . |
| 19 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 20 | Gloucester started as favourites to win this one … and in a game of penalties must have been kicking themselves for not doing better … |
| 21 | Severiano Ballesteros also had a 70 for a total of 213 but he must have been kicking himself for it included a seven at the 13th . |
| 22 | I must have been misguiding myself for a very long time Mr . |
| 23 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 24 | Rather could Offa have been securing himself in territory only recently recovered from Cynewulf . |
| 25 | The way to Lavondyss was a short climb away , and all she needed was to resign herself to the journey , to abandon Scathach . |
| 26 | To smoke is to dissociate oneself from the middle-class health fascists , to say no to jogging and yoghurt and yoga . |
| 27 | Those middle managers who are left are finding themselves with three times as much work to do as before , handicapped by depleted back-up resources . |
| 28 | However , even if it is a small field , all they have really learned is to position themselves by habit , using the local landmarks to help . |
| 29 | In fact , she did possess mettle , though going round alone in the jeep was — I believe — just feminine carelessness , like the terrible state she 'd leave her room in for her maid : powder everywhere , pink for face , white for body ; her long , strong , glossy hairs in the sink , so you would have thought the orang-utan had been availing himself of the facilities and not a pretty young woman of thirty-one . |
| 30 | Its withers will never win any of the races Ronnie had been telling himself about , and he is reluctant to return from this long , defeated , dark-thoughted walk to break the bad news or his adventure to his wife and daughters . |