Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here we 're talking about basing yourself for three weeks on that same golf course . |
| 2 | After satisfying herself to that end , she rose presently to give them a chance to be together , and to allow Bishop Jon to awaken without embarrassment . |
| 3 | His flesh was red and raw , but even after wounding himself like that , which must have been pretty painful , he did n't stop . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's no such thing as a meaningless gesture , ’ he said , after emptying himself of that thought . |
| 5 | He suffered burns to his upper body after dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight outside the offices of former girlfriend Sandra Sturgiss . |
| 6 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 7 | Police surveillance made communication between different groups difficult , while separate circles and indeed individuals were acutely suspicious of submitting themselves to any centralized underground authority even in the interests of ‘ the cause ’ . |
| 8 | Sometimes , indeed , we identify with another instead of seeing ourselves as independent autonomous subjects , we identify with Lady Diana , our headmistress or somebody at work . |
| 9 | Artists and the artistic community must stop deluding themselves and from now onwards begin scrutinising the very structure of their thought , instead of contenting themselves with pointless posturing systematically contradicted by the way in which art is produced and distributed . |
| 10 | He had a brief memory of McAllister 's bright face , earlier that day , and the thought of enjoying himself with one of Madame Rachel 's girls did not attract . |
| 11 | But it would be very odd if a corporation had no means of protecting itself against wrong ; and if its property is injured by slander it has no means of redress except by action . |
| 12 | But it would be very odd if a corporation had no means of protecting itself against wrong ; and if its property is injured by slander it has no means of redress except by action . |
| 13 | People who are on intimate terms are incapable of expressing themselves to each other , ’ said the thin , melancholy Feiffer . |
| 14 | Beyond the odd after-show beer , theirs is a devotion to the regime of immersing themselves in glorious music and trying to say something pertinent with it . |
| 15 | Clark Gable , James Cagney and Bogart developed peaceful ways of ridding themselves of these nuisances . |
| 16 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 17 | And therefore , if it can really come to this possibility of ministry a sort of , Young Farmers Club idea of getting themselves about that could be a a a a , a , a marvellous boost . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , he had a habit of propping himself on that stool in front of a picture and it must have gone over with him . |
| 19 | Whatever the size of land or terrace you have at your disposal , a little lateral thinking will prove that there are always ways and means of providing yourself with enough plant material to experiment with the very enjoyable pastime of pressing flowers . |
| 20 | Jezrael hated being the only one there who wore a bodysuit but she would have hated more the embarrassment of displaying herself with all her imperfections to the crude and lumpen miners . |
| 21 | But dumb animals are incapable of considering themselves in this light ; which is not to imply that human beings always do , only that they can normally be expected to if required . |
| 22 | Elise Fox , happily unmarried at thirty-two , was rarely without an escort , but never showed the least sign of tying herself to one man for good . |
| 23 | Even before he was consecrated , and perhaps as soon as he was elected , at a moment when , by ordinary rules of prudence , he should have been thinking of equipping himself with all the forms of expert knowledge required by his new position , he chose one of the group of English monks to be his closest and most constant companion . |
| 24 | Needless to say I 've no intention of committing myself to that particular folly . |
| 25 | When times are hard financially , many people feel very anxious at the thought of committing themselves to another baby . |
| 26 | His father had a way of losing himself in some private absorption , of not hearing when people spoke to him , and then of apologizing concernedly . |
| 27 | We have pleased to reserve this hearing until we had had an opportunity of acquainting ourselves with all the circumstances . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ So why did n't you just look for another job , instead of involving yourself in such a risky undertaking ? ’ |
| 29 | In clarifying our confidence in another 's consciousness , human or non-human , it was seen to be an error of Griffin 's to pose the problem in terms of putting ourselves into another 's ‘ skin' or to experience their ‘ subjective feelings ’ ( 1984 : 1 , above ) . |
| 30 | And when the satin had been recovered and she had found — after a painful , dry-mouthed fortnight of dosing herself with cheap gin and jumping down the cellar steps whenever Odette was not looking — that she was , miraculously , not pregnant , she had believed her luck to be on the turn . |