Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken Mentle , who often made up club rules as he went along , declared that his was the casting vote and promptly blocked the appointment , incredibly naming himself as manager . |
| 2 | Rose shut herself into her office , grimly applying herself to routine . |
| 3 | It is hard to know now whether Eden was really being serious , or merely protecting himself for posterity . |
| 4 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 5 | Er basically stuffing yourself to excess for two weeks . |
| 6 | The marking response can play a vital part in promoting this linguistic growth through establishing a dialogue , and not merely concerning itself with surface features of the writing , or the routine correction of technical errors . |
| 7 | Fire horror : A woman has died from burns after apparently dousing herself with petrol and setting it alight at an address in Bell Street , Hindley , near Wigan . |
| 8 | Claudia battled with the urge to crown him with the coffee , only restraining herself by thinking of her plans . |
| 9 | A 22 year old prisoner is critically ill in hospital tonight after apparently setting himself on fire in his cell . |
| 10 | It is the coach 's intention to have experience at the core of his team , bearing in mind the exceptional nature of the opposition , but Roxburgh did not rule out the possibility of a new arrival suddenly thrusting himself into consideration for one of Scotland 's remaining World Cup qualifying ties on the strength of a display against the Germans . |
| 11 | It is quite breathtaking , for instance , that her sympathies are so strong for another girl whom she sees as literally killing herself with exercise , yet she does n't really extend her sympathies or concern towards herself . |
| 12 | Swindon can concentrate on the league , but it 's not easy picking yourself up week after week . |
| 13 | This is because the horse is physically preparing himself for action — running , fighting , playing , courtship etc . |
| 14 | History is already repeating itself as farce in Beijing a year after the massacre . |
| 15 | The women reported other significant changes in their lives — by the end of the sessions , none of them were intentionally depriving themselves of food and all were eating regular meals . |
| 16 | Properly testing themselves against risk , as a human must , and does |
| 17 | You 'll notice that they 're geared to certain things on the on the question paper , th the the constituents really of what we 're going to talk about this afternoon , which will revolve mainly around thinking about things that you 're doing , I E good observation and concentration , those two going hand in hand , always organizing yourself in relation to a good separation distance , so you can equate what safety means to you . |
| 18 | Things are not going so well over at Castlereagh Park either just at the moment with Ards manager Paul Malone possibly landing himself in trouble with the authorities . |
| 19 | At 45 Mainwaring Road the upper maisonette was still advertising itself for sale — no less than six boards competing for the passerby 's attention . |
| 20 | While Branson was negotiating the purchase of his Caribbean island , the living corpse of the Sex Pistols was slowly kicking itself to final , ignominious extinction . |
| 21 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 22 | Masochistically subjecting himself to punishment in a gymnasium , incurring injury by hurling himself from windows or roofs , he achieves final atonement through an Italian hitman 's bullet . |
| 23 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
| 24 | Though comparatively few knights were actually killed in battle , the prince who committed his cause to battle was also putting himself in jeopardy , since it was always clear that the surest way to win a battle was to capture or kill the opposing commander , as Harold was killed at Hastings . |
| 25 | He asked : ‘ Is the Soviet press now selling itself for money ? ’ |
| 26 | George 's patience is probably what keeps Lennie from really getting himself into trouble , all the time and it is patience that has kept Lennie alive so long . |
| 27 | Fragments of papyri from the second millennium BC seem to be the first writings to deal exclusively with the subject matter of dreams , mainly concerning themselves with incest and bestiality with various animals . |
| 28 | Are the parent birds really putting themselves at risk for their offspring , laying down their own lives so that their young may live ? |
| 29 | It was the concrete embodiment of the principle of popular sovereignty : not the people choosing a government once every four or five or seven years , but the people continuously governing themselves from month to month and year to year . |
| 30 | The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism showed Eliot again considering poetry 's primitive roots and to some extent consciously reorienting himself towards romanticism . |