Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking , running and swimming are the best exercises you can do if you are using yourself in the correct way . |
| 2 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ But I suppose that you are consoling yourself after the fashion of a fool who lives in the slums . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 7 | We are bracing ourselves in the Administration Centre for what promises to be an even better year two targetting very substantial growth over year one . |
| 8 | The Chancellor and the Prime Minister are patting themselves on the back for the fact that they have managed to reduce British inflation rates to something like the German levels , but there is a difference between the two . |
| 9 | AS the curtain comes down on Courage League rugby for 1992 , the game 's elite are gearing themselves for the biggest dog-fight since the competition 's inception six years ago . |
| 10 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 11 | The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold |
| 12 | ‘ Ever since the elections they have been revealing themselves as the neo-Nazis that they really are , ’ he said . |
| 13 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
| 14 | Property speculators in particular are addressing themselves to the question of what is to be done with the vast stretches of land once occupied by watch towers , border guards , dogs and rabbits . |
| 15 | It seems to me that very few staff are addressing themselves to the kinds of things ( e.g. resources , teaching style , subject content , and attitudes and the hidden curriculum ) that can be used to bring out the best of the pupils ' cultures and backgrounds . |
| 16 | yeah and that 's the problem with this sort of whatever sort of watch you wanted to do , unless unless we encourage and get the backing of the troops on the ground we 're kicking ourselves in the teeth |
| 17 | So tell me , if the business my grandmother started several decades ago really is on the brink of insolvency , how come you 're sunning yourself in the Caribbean , Mr Sterne ? |
| 18 | Just by opting for a more left field occupation you 're putting yourself on the edge a bit It really does take a bit of bottle to do that and find your own way through the maze rather than just go with the flow . |
| 19 | He 's been interesting himself in the new C.O. , Brenda Pridmore . |
| 20 | " The [ communist ] movement is starting to fade away , they are alienating themselves from the people , " Buscayno told an interviewer . |
| 21 | ‘ What is the use of doing up the house , if you are to leave yourself in the same poor condition ? ’ demanded Rose . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |
| 24 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 25 | This is the question an increasing number of consumers are asking themselves in the financially straitened Nineties . |
| 26 | Campese , scorer of a record 51 Test tries , the most recent against Ireland last weekend , had second thoughts about taking his World Cup winners ' medal into retirement , despite his claim that rugby players are running themselves into the ground . |
| 27 | However , an increasing number of countries are committing themselves to the goal of immunising 80% of their children by 1990 under the World Health Organization 's Extended Programme on Immunisation ( EPI ) . |
| 28 | For this in Edinburgh there is a sort of a forum where er organizations are set themselves round the table and say this is what , the sort of idea that we 're gon na do for the next year and a half |
| 29 | The people of Israel are thought of as a people chosen by God who are to separate themselves from the rest of the peoples of the earth by a series of laws that distinguish the holy time ( sabbath ) from profane time , clean foods from unclean foods , clean from unclean bodily states and holy from unholy places . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , back at the ivory tower , lobby groups are busying themselves with the legal questions while waiting to get the big question answered ( i.e. why do people do it ? ) . |