Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] with [det] " in BNC.

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1 My original programme included the week 's Workshop in Jaipur and two lectures in Delhi , but in fact I found myself with many more professional engagements than this , through the Indian habit of ‘ cashing in ’ on one 's presence to arrange last minute lectures and seminars , and the Indian tendency to solicit one 's opinion of personal research , of Ph.D .
2 I comfort myself with that recollection when dealing with complaints about my own paper , very much part of a modern editor 's work in an age when our readers have become more critical and more discriminating , but Professor Macmurray 's insights have helped me to distinguish between those complaints that flow , as they sometimes do , from a different subjective interpretation of a given body of facts and those that arise from a straightforward error on our part .
3 I astonished myself with this realization .
4 She busied herself with some clothes .
5 ‘ And you watch yourself with that fried egg .
6 But she had re-entered the world of music , she comforted herself with this ; in the least expected way she was back in the life from which Mike and his family and marriage had threatened to cut her off for ever .
7 We would therefore ask you to familiarise yourself with these requests so that you can take part fully in the discussion in your group .
8 We indulged ourselves with some jars of Marmite and bitter marmalade ( which proved not to go well with rice ) and an emergency medicinal bottle of Grand Marnier .
9 Even people we think of as being extremely rich will often grumble because they compare themselves with those who earn even more money than they do .
10 Endowed , as he was , with a compelling creative genius , he drove himself with little regard for his own health and welfare , contributing ( over and above his journalistic duties ) serial novels , literary and political commentaries , and poems to newspapers , and an increasing flow of scholarly articles and essays to monthly and quarterly journals .
11 Gedge explained its meaning to Splutter fanzine : ‘ It concerns itself with those factors which cause men to conform to a particular form of sexual stereotyping .
12 He compares himself with those whose hardened hearts are calloused and unfeeling , and then says : ‘ But I delight in your law . ’
13 In his early days at the Bar he supported himself with such kindred activities as washing up at Lyons and libel reading for the News of the World .
14 Er , you know , he saved hisself with this er
15 At 30 , McEnroe is beginning to incline towards nostalgia , even though he leaves himself with little time to indulge in the luxury .
16 There is much abstruse learning on the subject ( see , in particular , the illuminating discussion by Windeyer J. in Mason v. New South Wales , 102 C.L.R. 108 , 139–142 ) , but for present purposes it is not , I think , necessary for us to concern ourselves with this point of classification .
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