Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pn reflx] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had inched his way to the dark bathroom , and stood slumped over the sink , feeling lost , depersonalized , and trying to soothe or tether himself with the running water . |
| 2 | In addition , she is keenly involved in Headway ( I 'm the Avon patron ) , the Frenchay based charity that concerns itself with the effects and remedial care following head injuries . |
| 3 | Rather than concerning itself with the way in which the properties of this structure emerge from its components , it takes the structure as given and asks how it reproduces itself and changes . |
| 4 | ‘ It is the only thing that presents itself with the information we have at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We all of us have something better to do than concern ourselves with the tantrums of servants ! ’ |
| 6 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 7 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But with the accession of Herod , Eisenman argues , most Sadducees — the Sadducees whom we know as such from biblical sources and from Josephus — betrayed their original loyalties and aligned themselves with the usurper . |
| 10 | Practise the above and familiarise yourself with the co-ordination required for turns in each direction before trying to fly proper circuits . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Having clarified your objectives , and provided yourself with the necessary resources , make a start . |
| 15 | Many blind people struggle to pay their bills and provide themselves with the necessities of life . |
| 16 | Within Royal Ordnance which I have resumed the responsibility for I do n't know , Mr Chairman , I convened a meeting of the convenors to introduce myself and to familiarize myself with the movement and the industry only for the company to announce thirteen hundred redundancies , as we were meeting . |
| 17 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 18 | Ianthe flushed and busied herself with the coffee tray . |
| 19 | ‘ When the State usurps the functions of the family ’ … and consoled himself with the thought that he never pontificated unless he was drunk . |
| 20 | He nodded , smiling thinly , and fanned himself with the now redundant carpet-beater . |
| 21 | You must also buy a copy of Debrett and familiarize yourself with the names of those people in society we hope will become our clients . |
| 22 | When her son was badly injured in a road accident , she nursed him to the point of exhaustion , refusing outside help , and comforted herself with the thought that if only her family knew what she was going through , they would rush to her rescue . |
| 23 | The President had got himself into bed and covered himself with the sheet . |
| 24 | In summary , then , at present advocates of an orthodox Marxist-Leninist ( Soviet-inspired ) solution to Latin American problems do not enjoy much support , and it seems clear that Communist parties need to develop more flexible strategies and to ally themselves with the broader left if they are to sustain an effective role in political life . |
| 25 | They like to watch a tough woman up there on the screen and comfort themselves with the thought that they 'll never have to live with her . ’ |
| 26 | It is a struggle to paint grasses in a true watercolour technique and the purist may well react against the use of white and acrylic here , but I have found a release from the restrictions of technique through this method and comfort myself with the knowledge that white has been in common use by artists throughout the history of watercolour painting . |
| 27 | Streets are blocked and atheism has to give way as people kneel in the streets and cross themselves with the sign of the Holy Trinity . ) |
| 28 | The bubbling notes of a female cuckoo rang out as , rounding a bend and finding ourselves with the sea again in view , we settled to picnic . |
| 29 | Some , notably those with physical disabilities , see integration as a human right ( Reiser and Mason , 1990 ) and align themselves with the views of organisations such as the Centre for Studies in Integration in Education ( CSIE ) . |
| 30 | ( 1981 , p. 8 ) , however , deny the need to specify a theory of conditioning and concern themselves with the empirical implications of the view that changes in attention will be governed by the known laws of classical conditioning . |