Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] [adv] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unhelpful if Ministers or others speaking on the right hon. Gentleman 's behalf suggest that internment will not be used or that it is not a viable and justifiable means of dealing with those whose training and speciality is keeping themselves out of the courts and out of the hands of those on whom we depend to impose justice for the deaths that have occurred in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | In other words a good mirror signal manoeuvre routine , however you apply it but in a particular order , which gives a discipline , so that you 're keeping yourselves out of the problems that other people may give you if you allow them to . |
| 3 | ‘ No , ’ Denis barked back — and then , forcing himself out of the nightmare of his paralysis , he added : ‘ Not yet . ’ |
| 4 | Pulling herself out of the dazed state into which the woman 's embittered words had thrown her , she tried for a non-committal tone . |
| 5 | When you are pulling yourself out of a swamp you do not consult a road map . |
| 6 | Whittingham joined Pompey four years ago after buying himself out of the Army for £450 . |
| 7 | According to Elm 's sales director , Jim Cooper , the company is positioning itself ahead of a tightening of US food storage laws which is due to take place in the next 18 months . |
| 8 | Show some determination today and start getting yourself out of the biggest rut you 're in . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing at all , ’ said Greg , letting himself out of the front door . |
| 10 | And a much more substantial prospect is to be found in continental Europe , where the German worker is assiduously pricing himself out of the market — and far from the Ossies pricing themselves into jobs lost by the Wessies , the former East Germans are insisting on even more uneconomic wages in relation to their skills and capabilities . |
| 11 | Letting herself out of the gate , she noticed a familiar figure on the steps outside her door . |
| 12 | She was fighting her battles elsewhere , hauling herself out of the rut of common humanity to the point when she would be ready to accept the training the medicine man of the line of Armijah was destined to give her . |
| 13 | Whether the two little fighting men are pricing themselves out of the market remains to be seen but both were threatening a stand-off . |
| 14 | At least financial agencies have some pressure to provide funds at competitive rates , and builders to guard against pricing themselves out of the market , but landowners just have to sit on the land until they get the price they demand . |
| 15 | I listened to a woman executive on the radio the other morning explaining as to an idiot audience that the abolition of the wages councils was long overdue since workers could n't keep on pricing themselves out of the labour market . |
| 16 | ‘ For Christ 's sake , get out , ’ he muttered , and levering himself out of the chair , he crossed the room in a stride and climbed the open stairs three at a time . |
| 17 | She imagined the child Lucenzo , parading in the Piazza in his brocade coat and shiny buckle shoes one year , then finding himself part of a real-life fairy-tale the next . |
| 18 | He 's been making himself part of the England scene by acting as spy for some time now as already noted on the list . |
| 19 | and they come to MPs like me to try and find some way of helping themselves out of the dilemma . |
| 20 | The result is that , whereas , for the passive reader , the novel effectively ends with Oliveira seemingly about to commit suicide by throwing himself out of a window , the active reader goes beyond this to the understanding that Oliveira 's jump into the void is a metaphorical leap into a metaphysical state , where conventional categories are abolished and dualistic contradictions reconciled . |
| 21 | Woe betide a Soviet regime which shoots Russian and Eastern Ukrainian miners , the elite of the working class in the supposed land of the proletariat , and does so moreover in an era when suppression of news is no longer possible and society is rapidly organising itself autonomously of the state . |
| 22 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |
| 23 | The pool was packed with salmon and sea-trout , tearing round like mad things , splashing and leaping , throwing themselves out of the water in spectacular displays . |
| 24 | Miss Jarman was heaving herself out of the carriage with the help of the crabbed old driver ; marching up the steps and rapping on the front door shouting : |