Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inland , you can get close to the countryside with a few days on a farm or perhaps pamper yourself with a luxury hotel . |
| 2 | ‘ Rickie Crowninshield , ’ I said stiffly , ‘ has already lost the sight of one eye because of cocaine , and if he does n't stop using the drug then he will almost certainly go to jail or even kill himself with an overdose . ’ |
| 3 | He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter . |
| 4 | They screw their suppliers , screw their people and eventually screw themselves with it . |
| 5 | The first was over the board 's decision to close the senior staff dining-room and require staff to eat in the staff canteen : Fred apparently thinks you initiated this policy , and resents the fact that he will no longer be able to produce a limited number of high-quality meals and thus ingratiate himself with the senior staff . |
| 6 | The ladies , therefore , had four or five babies as quickly after marriage as nature would permit , and thus provided themselves with an indefinite number of conversational gambits . |
| 7 | From the start , the NAPSS had a number of energetic women members , and also concerned itself with the question of women 's employment . |
| 8 | We become more resistant to change and often surround ourselves with friends who strongly reinforce our own self-images . |
| 9 | Instead of ‘ us and them ’ perceptions of their relationships with their employers , the manual workers would forgo hitherto strong class loyalties , and increasingly associate themselves with middle- class conformity . |
| 10 | The young man said he would tell her when to get off and then busied himself with an oilcan among the driving wheels . |
| 11 | They began to regain lost ground in the first years of muhammad Reza 's reign , were probably involved in his attempt assassination in 1949 , succeeded in killing the prime minister in 1951 , and initially allied themselves with Dr Mossadeq 's campaign to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company . |
| 12 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |
| 13 | Cabrera Infante , among others , repeatedly draws attention to his role as author , while the narrator of Alfredo Bryce Echenique 's A World for Julius not only maintains a running dialogue with the reader , but also involves himself with his characters , putting himself in their shoes , addressing them directly as if they were there alongside him and , like a supporter at a sporting event , siding with some against others . |
| 14 | Investment banks made hay while takeovers shone , but now find themselves with too many overheads , too few profits and no friends at all . |