Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goaded himself by picturing the ageing President , grey-haired and frail . |
| 2 | Unabashed , Nicholas dedicated himself to purging the Congress Kingdom of dissent . |
| 3 | ‘ I involved myself by phoning the hotel to find out from the boss what was going on . |
| 4 | Nothing is known of its activities , but Vikings normally maintained themselves by raiding the country within a wide range of their base . |
| 5 | Unlike outright slaves , they maintained themselves by cultivating the land conditionally allotted to them by their master . |
| 6 | He concerned himself with alleviating the slave-like conditions of negroes in the West Indies , and when war broke out in the United States in 1861 he worked at getting financial and material support for emancipated negroes . |
| 7 | John assured me that it did n't matter in the least , and amused himself by taxying the machine up and down the runways , testing and running-in the VW engine at the same time . |
| 8 | Thucydides distinguished himself by transferring the real cause of the Peloponnesian War to the more impersonal fears inspired in the Peloponnesians by Athens . |
| 9 | Whilst the signaller busied himself with decoding the latest message from on high , the Troop Commander 's mind raced back over a fairly hectic three weeks , Which had taken the troop from Hameln ( of Pied Piper fame ) , the regiment 's home base on the River Weser , eastwards to the River Leine and north the River Aller , before swinging north-west to the mouth of the Weser in the Bremerhaven area . |
| 10 | Aileen Gillies was all brisk agreement as she wrapped up some food in a cloth and gave it to them while her husband busied himself with laying the fire . |
| 11 | He committed himself to helping the future of rugby when he was elected president of a relaunched Young England Club . |
| 12 | Confronted by noble resistance and alarmed by foreign upheaval , Nicholas had shelved the issue and committed himself to upholding the status quo at home and abroad . |
| 13 | After the banks ' nationalisation he sold most of his interests in the dozen or so companies he had created and drawn his wealth from , and committed himself to combating the existing political system . |
| 14 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 15 | The National Party had in March 1990 committed itself to maintaining the ban which then ceased to be a domestic political issue . |
| 16 | Declaring that " corruption , indiscipline , mismanagement , tribalism , nepotism , injustice and thuggery " were rampant , the NPRC committed itself to returning the country to multiparty democracy in the " shortest possible time " . |
| 17 | The Thatcher government in particular , throughout its terms of office , repeatedly committed itself to cutting the burden of taxation , and thereby to increasing incentives and encouraging enterprise and initiative . |
| 18 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 19 | But in 1920 the economy began to decline , unemployment rose and the government committed itself to following the advice of the Cunliffe Committee to return to the gold standard by 1925 . |
| 20 | Lord Joseph has been interested in the causes of poverty for a long time : as a young man he joined the Howard League for Penal Reform as well as a Quaker group which busied itself about improving the social conditions of the poor . |
| 21 | She busied herself with retrieving the carrier of wet clothes from the seat behind , desperate to end this short-lived but uniquely humiliating experience and yet finding that to end it here , like this , would be the final humiliation of all . |
| 22 | So she ignored the insistent call , busied herself with finding the key to the door . |
| 23 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 24 | On Nov. 27 , following direct talks brokered by the UN , dos Santos and Savimbi issued the " Namibie Declaration " in which they committed themselves to accepting the Bicesse Peace Accord and implementing a ceasefire , and to a continuing UN presence in the country . |
| 25 | They committed themselves to placing the framework within a comprehensive political settlement at a future meeting of the Paris International Conference on Cambodia [ see pp. 36848-49 for meeting of Paris Conference in August 1989 ] . |
| 26 | ‘ I amazed myself by ripping the ball at the flag . ’ |
| 27 | Walsh , with Hayling fronting the show to add that important touch of Cambridge class , threw himself into raising the matching funding required by GLEB . |
| 28 | Britta hated herself for wanting the arm to encircle her again . |
| 29 | ‘ I think that secretly , deep down , I hated myself for taking the job . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |