Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As we have seen , although positivist criminologists were often shy of associating themselves with specific corrective programmes , they saw crime as pathological and shared a general consensus in favour of a broadly rehabilitative approach to ridding ourselves of it . |
| 10 | But she did not strike him as a girl who would get much pleasure out of flagellating herself with self-loathing and trembling hypocrisy . |
| 11 | In the task of fortifying oneself with supportive personal relationships , compadrazgo offers extensive manipulative opportunities . |
| 12 | For those thinking of saturating themselves in full-time tuition , a G.I.T. , B.I.T . |
| 13 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 14 | ‘ This modern peril of the streets ’ , it was observed , ‘ created something like a reign of terror ’ in which ‘ whole sections of a peaceable city community were on the verge of arming themselves against sudden attack ’ . |
| 15 | Schlick 's murder in 1936 terminated Waismann 's employment and his opportunities for supporting himself by private teaching . |
| 16 | Sucked into the bureaucracy of their organizations , they feel there are few opportunities for providing a unique contribution to profit , for distinguishing themselves with exceptional results . |
| 17 | The whole endeavour was set in an international context , the Commission being charged with acquainting itself with modern penal practice abroad . |
| 18 | He deduced that carbon had a combining power ( valency ) of four or two and a unique capacity for joining itself to other atoms of its own kind , the secret of the existence of millions of organic ( carbon ) compounds . |
| 19 | Mary Tyrone , perhaps the central character of the play but certainly not the sole source of discord , is a fading beauty trying to find solace from the harsh realities of the external world and internal torment in steeping herself in lost ideals and numbing herself with drugs . |
| 20 | The current study shows that Hand is likely to have retrieved the vast majority of derived papers , and it is suggested that studies in other subject fields would be statistically safe in limiting themselves to similar time periods . |
| 21 | The current study shows that Hand is likely to have retrieved the vast majority of derived papers , and it is suggested that studies in other subject fields would be statistically safe in limiting themselves to similar time periods . |
| 22 | Why do people take so much pleasure in immersing themselves in warm water ? |
| 23 | The Padre had wasted no time in equipping himself with fresh and healthy bearers and now had himself carried with exhilarating swiftness in a litter to where the Collector was standing with the General . |
| 24 | We saw the obstacle course where the dogs learn to imagine they are six feet tall so that they can keep their blind owners safe from hurting themselves on low objects . |
| 25 | If this occurs , try to contain such behaviour by discouraging anyone from sexual activity or from exposing themselves in public . |
| 26 | For the army of Alba , it seemed , was not at all unprepared for the sudden emergence of the enemy from the wood and only waited politely , as before , for the troublesome stream to be crossed , together with a number of novel earthworks of Bishop Hrolf 's devising , before throwing itself in neat but different formation against Siward 's lines . |
| 27 | The rising hope of English squash , Cassie Jackman , also made the last eight , but dropped the first game before asserting herself against unseeded Linda Charman , who is a vastly improved player this season . |
| 28 | He has shown courage in exposing himself in public to the danger . |
| 29 | Before resigning ourselves to permanent depression and a feeling that special needs have slipped from the political agenda , it may be useful to look again at some of the implications for change for the better … |
| 30 | The safety of an army in the field is dependent not only on defending itself against direct attack but also on its maintaining open communications with its base … we should be as much concerned with threats to the rear as with threats to the front . |