Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Collin said some people have threatened to withhold the £20 surcharge in protest only to find themselves facing the threat of court action . |
| 2 | But she gripped her hands together to help herself bear the wailing glory of the music which was a lament for all lost and gone , loved things , an expression of a grief she had thought too deep to express . |
| 3 | He said that the Government had only pledged itself to employ the successful barracks architects , but not the Government Offices architects . |
| 4 | She can only equip herself to face the world from a secure position when she has developed an internal strength which will come from the accumulation of power by centres of growth which lie far outside the existing bureaucracies of government , party and presidential palace . |
| 5 | Seizing the opportunity offered by Compaq Computer Corp 's formal resignation from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative ( UX No 382 ) , the Santa Cruz Operation Inc , finally steeled itself to announce the suspension of all of its MIPS Computer Systems Inc development work last week — effectively tendering its resignation from the ACE crowd . |
| 6 | Important as were his contacts with the Frankish rulers for his preaching in Hesse and Thuringia , he could scarcely bring himself to share the company of the fast-living Frankish bishops whom he met at court — Milo of Trier ‘ and others like him ’ , as he said dismissively — until his mentor , Bishop Daniel of Winchester , had to cite to him texts from Augustine and the Bible against separating oneself from sinners and in favour of dissimulation . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm so pleased he got round , ’ remarked Miss Sanders , who was hobbling around with her left foot in a plastic bag after breaking her ankle in a schooling accident and could scarcely bring herself to watch the race . |
| 8 | Erm I mean I was just finding myself expressing the views that er given the dramatic change in the composition of the County Council since the election , I would have thought something as major as the East Grinstead by-pass would need to be considered by the new council anyway and er I think it would be perhaps er assuming too much er to believe that the present council would follow the line of the previous council that 's only er a personal expression . |
| 9 | The humiliating financial dependence on his parents , a fact of life ever since he had been dismissed from Goupil 's , was being gradually shifted on to Theo , who would soon find himself shouldering the whole burden . |
| 10 | She knew all too well he meant nothing by it , that he probably had n't even noticed he was doing it , but she still found herself hoarding the memory of each insignificant caress as a miser would hoard gold . |
| 11 | He could have lied , but he usually found himself speaking the truth to Mrs Lorimer ; it was another reason for moving out . |
| 12 | The Egyptians could hardly bring themselves to mention the names of Cheops and Chephren , he reports , and preferred to call the pyramids after Philitis , a shepherd who tended his flocks in the area . |
| 13 | But his hands were shaking so much that he could hardly stop himself knocking the food off the plate . |
| 14 | Possessed of such , and revelling in the distance set between them and miserable ‘ pragmatism ’ , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative Party can still persuade itself to see the last decade as a period when undeviating conviction wrought a miracle in the land . |
| 15 | He repeatedly found himself asking the question Who ? — and What ? — was he ? |
| 16 | But they probably persecuting themselves leading the risk . |
| 17 | I know I ca n't run 27:08 , at least not without resorting to recreational narcotics , and I ca n't honestly see myself reaching the real top level at 10,000m . |
| 18 | The problem for Kahn and his fellow minority shareholders , representing approximately 25%/ of Velcro 's publicly held share , was the powerful presence of a 65%/ block in Velcro held by a company called Cohere , which had originally committed itself to support the liquidation proposal . |
| 19 | As the mother of a nine-year-old girl , I often find myself questioning the wisdom of other parents in the light of recent attacks on young children . |
| 20 | In run-of-the-mill performances you often find yourself lamenting the absence of Lerner and Loewe 's songs from My Fair Lady , but in this detailed , absorbing production , Shaw 's verbal music is enough . |
| 21 | ‘ We can now judge ourselves knowing the standards are some of the best in the world ’ . |
| 22 | Both the Skelton family and the Griffiths family now find themselves paying the price of those risks . |
| 23 | Since he has only an option and does not legally commit himself to buy the goods , the contract is not one of sale , Helby v. Matthews ( 1895 H.L. ) . |
| 24 | He even found himself liking the gunman in an abstract way , despite Gomez 's future role as his executioner . |
| 25 | Would n't it be lovely , then , to be able to tell your PC that you want to run a CD ROM based game , and would it please re-configure itself to do the best job , preferably without making you wait five minutes while it re-boots ? |
| 26 | She did n't voice her thoughts but she immediately saw herself wearing the lime-green dress and the coat with the rose lining . |
| 27 | Today 's new mother may well find herself facing the additional difficulty of coping alone with her new-born infant — whether due to choice or circumstance . |
| 28 | Wisely cautious at first — awed , probably , by sheer numbers ( because they were coming in , now , from all over the shop , from Canada , from Palestine ) — German society duly broadened itself to let the newcomers in . |
| 29 | Her spite is aroused by the Gattletons ' ostentatious amateur theatricals , and she successfully sets herself to sabotage the proceedings ; her daughter Emma . |
| 30 | For all that , I could not for some days quite bring myself to raise the matter again with Mr Farraday . |