Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And which of those , ’ said McGee , who clearly had a relationship with her , ‘ would you think the Bishop and the Canon and the Dean and the Archdeacon are pleasuring themselves with ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Various bodies in Manufacturing Industry are working themselves into one of their regular lathers about the supposed low social esteem bestowed upon engineers and engineering . |
| 4 | They had demolished Leeds in such a pyschologically damaging fashion on Saturday at Maine Road that Howard Wilkinson 's side were steeling themselves for disappointment . |
| 5 | ENGLISH football is bracing itself for an invasion of South African soccer talent . |
| 6 | Yes , in his own quiet way Summerchild is presenting himself to an audience . |
| 7 | The print industry is bracing itself for industrial action from next Monday , Printing World reports . |
| 8 | As far as the programme itself was concerned , she felt it was a ‘ classic example of the way in which the BBC , with its penchant for ‘ South Bank ’ religion was allowing itself to be used as a launching platform for the ‘ new morality ’ ’ . |
| 9 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 10 | There was even a time , John said later , when his one ambition was to devote himself to horses , but his father was not especially enthusiastic about that idea . |
| 11 | The belief was that to ritually and voluntarily — and I stress the word ‘ voluntarily ’ — shed one 's own blood was to recommend oneself to and establish a link with the Creator of the Universe , and this is precisely what happened with circumcision . |
| 12 | Arthur and Geoff were already there and the ARP organist was surpassing himself with appropriate music . |
| 13 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 14 | All over the burrow , both the newcomers and those who were at home were accustoming themselves to each other in their own way and their own time ; getting to know what the strangers smelt like , how they moved , how they breathed , how they scratched , the feel of their rhythms and pulses . |
| 15 | Are we truly prepared to offer no model of co-operating nations sinking their differences to achieve greater security , or are we prepared to live with a Europe that is increasingly fragmented , where nations ' first demand on sovereignty is to equip themselves with weapons to tackle or to defend themselves from new nations on their own borders that have the same heightened state of frenzy and determination to do the same ? |
| 16 | ONE way to survive the slump is to put yourself in your customers ' shoes . |
| 17 | Twenty years ago the same testy attitude was asserting itself in Parliament , prompting one MP to urge Mr Butler not to give in to ‘ the wild men of the Conservative Party ’ . |
| 18 | It was Saturday morning and suburbia was busying itself with the tasks it likes so much . |
| 19 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 21 | He decided that the only way to avoid spending the rest of his life in the workhouse was to exhibit himself as a freak , and so he offered himself to Sam Torr , who ran a music-hall , the Gaiety Palace of Varieties . |
| 22 | Those with extra cash are treating themselves to costly colognes and aftershaves . |
| 23 | Britain 's war aim is to bring itself into being as an international player and from there back into being as Britain . |
| 24 | The rhetoric suggests that the author is distancing himself from antisemitism and from the absurdities of the conspiratorial interpretation of politics . |
| 25 | This implies that the vendor is representing itself as an insurer whereas the real claim is the full value of the damages suffered by the breach of contract ; ( d ) ensuring the purchaser acknowledges it has not relied on any representation other than those incorporated in the sale agreement and that it shall not have any right to rescind the sale agreement . |
| 26 | Ironically , my immediate reaction to the outbreak of war was to fling myself in my imagination into the Royal Ascot of all demos , Vietnam . |
| 27 | Kaptan was to apply himself to something useful . |
| 28 | This body was to turn itself into the Labour Party in 1906 . |
| 29 | The rain was smashing itself into a two-foot-high mist above the roadway as Maxim pulled up outside Billy Dann 's house . |
| 30 | Yet what I was really doing was hardening myself against disappointment — my mother was going to be abroad when the baby was born . |