Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A high degree of awareness can make the problem worse because some young people are persuaded to carry a knife or weapon to defend themselves with , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Frogs and birds pamper themselves with plumes of pampas grass |
| 3 | All of us probably envy the ability of Imelda , Ivana , Diana and co to indulge themselves with a glorious shopping spree whenever the desire grips them . |
| 4 | Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly . |
| 5 | ‘ The city is too easily stereotyped as a bleak and industrial wasteland full of flat-capped frustrated poets and musos consoling themselves with endless amounts of ale . |
| 6 | The dance responds to another rhythm — the violent modern dissonances of Stravinsky 's famous musical score and spring releases itself with a boundless , dangerous energy in movements tense , muscular and frankly sensual . |
| 7 | If you 'd a husband and bairns to occupy yourself with , there 'd be none of this drawing and tootling on flutes . |
| 8 | And Francie dowsing himself with porridge and ( now ) meditatively picking his teeth with a used matchstick . |
| 9 | Seeing him in good spirits now , Boswell teased him for his earlier hesitancy , called him ‘ a delicate Londoner … a macaroni ’ , and Johnson defended himself with an unserious disingenuousness by saying he had only feared not finding a horse able enough to carry him . |
| 10 | Although both James and Miller concern themselves with the effects of attaching verbal responses to the cues to be discriminated , there is no reason to restrict the analysis they offer to such responses . |
| 11 | During the short five-year period of the Second World War , a layer of air power was added to that foundation , but since the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945 , and Britain armed herself with nuclear weapons in the 1950s , the Three Pillars have stood just as securely upon the strategic nuclear deterrent . |
| 12 | John Marshall was given ample time to cross and Farrell redeemed himself with an unstoppable half volley . |
| 13 | Whereas in Egypt the pharaoh symbolized the triumph of an invincible divine order over the forces of chaos , in Mesopotamia kingship represented the struggle of a human order with all its anxieties and hazards to integrate itself with the universe . |
| 14 | Sisterlike or not , Frau Nordern 's word was enough and Erika found herself with a glass of light Hungarian wine and enjoying it , too . |
| 15 | In the settings of four aphoristic poems by Istvan Balint for soprano and 14 players — which Kurtag began in 1972 and recently revised — the outside influences declared themselves quite readily , whether they were from East European folk music or Webern : and in this performance , the soprano Adrienne Csengery and Sinfonietta excelled themselves with sudden flashes of colour and bursts of intense virtuosity . |
| 16 | but Buckinghamshire enjoyed themselves with ahat ful of quick wickets after lunch … ten out of ten for fielding … |
| 17 | But Jaq girded himself with his own tormented chastity and fired true , from psycannon and bolt gun . |