Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Barrie tortured himself with Victorian fears about his own adult sexuality , Spielberg flagellates himself for Sixties selfishness and Eighties careerism ( Spielberg himself is one of the baby-boom generation , and divorced ) . |
| 2 | On the ground he was safe from an hussar 's blade , so Karelius concerned himself with him no more , but urged his mare on down the footpath to join the advance guard in the main street . |
| 3 | Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly . |
| 4 | And Francie dowsing himself with porridge and ( now ) meditatively picking his teeth with a used matchstick . |
| 5 | Seeing him in good spirits now , Boswell teased him for his earlier hesitancy , called him ‘ a delicate Londoner … a macaroni ’ , and Johnson defended himself with an unserious disingenuousness by saying he had only feared not finding a horse able enough to carry him . |
| 6 | Although both James and Miller concern themselves with the effects of attaching verbal responses to the cues to be discriminated , there is no reason to restrict the analysis they offer to such responses . |
| 7 | During the short five-year period of the Second World War , a layer of air power was added to that foundation , but since the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945 , and Britain armed herself with nuclear weapons in the 1950s , the Three Pillars have stood just as securely upon the strategic nuclear deterrent . |
| 8 | John Marshall was given ample time to cross and Farrell redeemed himself with an unstoppable half volley . |
| 9 | Sisterlike or not , Frau Nordern 's word was enough and Erika found herself with a glass of light Hungarian wine and enjoying it , too . |
| 10 | In the settings of four aphoristic poems by Istvan Balint for soprano and 14 players — which Kurtag began in 1972 and recently revised — the outside influences declared themselves quite readily , whether they were from East European folk music or Webern : and in this performance , the soprano Adrienne Csengery and Sinfonietta excelled themselves with sudden flashes of colour and bursts of intense virtuosity . |
| 11 | but Buckinghamshire enjoyed themselves with ahat ful of quick wickets after lunch … ten out of ten for fielding … |
| 12 | But Jaq girded himself with his own tormented chastity and fired true , from psycannon and bolt gun . |
| 13 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 14 | As the revelations gathered pace in America strenuous efforts were made to distance the president from the facts , while North busied himself with his office shredder . |
| 15 | Had n't he taken a day off to go fishing , while Adam busied himself with prospective clients ? |
| 16 | In Carlyle Mansions itself , Hayward 's own rooms were at the front of the building and looked over the river and the gardens while Eliot satisfied himself with a study and bedroom down a dark passage at the back of the building . |
| 17 | Moreau fussed about like an old hen , whilst Karelius contented himself with nodding and grinning idiotically . |