Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left , contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That 's why we should now make a start on reminding ourselves of the relevance of our own particular life story . |
| 4 | Perhaps now we can take Mill 's insight on board without opening ourselves to the charge of arbitrariness . |
| 5 | Seating ourselves on the trunk of an old ash-tree that stretched along the ground , Coleridge read aloud with a sonorous and musical voice , the ballad of Betty Foy . |
| 6 | Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er |
| 7 | and of course and we would have been patting ourselves on the back saying we could go in under |
| 8 | ‘ And my name 's Ashley Fleming , ’ Ashley said , fearful that Simon might start patting himself on the back yet again . |
| 9 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 10 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 11 | He swallowed hard and ran to the back door , pressing himself against the wall beside it . |
| 12 | Pressing himself against the wall he looked down at the body . |
| 13 | Bent almost double , he darted towards the kitchen , pressing himself against the wall . |
| 14 | JH : When launching , say , into Beethoven 's Op. 2 No. 3 C major Sonata ( for example ) , do you still find yourself thinking very much of ‘ Beethoven the young lion ’ announcing himself to the world ? |
| 15 | It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph . |
| 16 | He became adept at launching himself over the canoe 's side ; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit , a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it . |
| 17 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 18 | Now he was naked too beside her and making pantomime bows to his guests before launching himself into the night . |
| 19 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 20 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 21 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 22 | ‘ How did you fare , my darling ? ’ he asked her , and took her hand , seating himself on the bed 's edge . |
| 23 | ‘ Indeed , ’ said Cowley , seating himself on the edge of the desk . |
| 24 | He reached out and turned the lamp so that it shone onto her face , seating himself on the edge of the desk so that he could study her . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm obliged to you , ’ he murmured , seating himself by the fire and extending his hands . |
| 26 | ‘ You had indeed , ’ Feargal said with an ironic little bow before seating himself in the armchair opposite his mother . |
| 27 | But it is often assumed that so doing is to be following in the footsteps of Marx , when he gave his example of luxury goods production , basing himself on the premise that the sub-department lib produced only goods for capitalist consumption . |
| 28 | A hand launching itself into the air |
| 29 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |
| 30 | In January 1990 a Human Rights League was set up , basing itself on the League for Human Rights established in 1922 and banned by the Nazis in 1933 . |