Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] with [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 2 | He bore himself with great dignity , and not a little humour , but he was disappointed to the innermost core . |
| 3 | As well as prompting a rise in trade , the existence of a new class which found itself with spare time and spare cash at its disposal also heralded an era of unprecedented artistic achievement . |
| 4 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 5 | Oil producers found themselves with large dollar surpluses which they did not wish to deposit in the USA , partly as we have seen because of the prevailing regulations but also for political reasons . |
| 6 | As well as causing a breakdown in the economic system , the inflation led to a spread of corruption ; it meant humiliation for many thousands of families , whilst a few successful speculators found themselves with untold wealth . |
| 7 | Deng closely aligned himself with this stance . |
| 8 | Prior Robert was still so blind that he almost stumbled on the steps , but recovered himself with aristocratic dignity and by the time he reached the tiles of the floor was his complacent official self again . |
| 9 | Endowed , as he was , with a compelling creative genius , he drove himself with little regard for his own health and welfare , contributing ( over and above his journalistic duties ) serial novels , literary and political commentaries , and poems to newspapers , and an increasing flow of scholarly articles and essays to monthly and quarterly journals . |
| 10 | The system created in 1945–9 — when Stalin had established a series of puppet regimes in power in the East , and Europe had become ideologically , economically and militarily divided — now unravelled itself with astonishing speed . |
| 11 | ‘ And remember , ’ she told herself with growing horror , ‘ what Mr Bishop 's brother said ! |
| 12 | ‘ I just dried myself with some hay and wrung out my dress before putting it back on . |
| 13 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 14 | After lunch , Bernice and I armed ourselves with black plastic dustbin liners and we made a concerted attack on Billy 's room . |
| 15 | He threw himself with good grace into everything , even this . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the PowerOpen Association Inc unveiled itself with five sponsor members — Apple Computer Inc , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , IBM Corp , Motorola Inc and Thomson-CSF SA — spending an initial $750,000 and annual $250,000 to fund the Billerica , Massachusetts-based outfit . |
| 17 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 18 | Cabbages ( part of the Wilderness had been a vegetable patch ) armed themselves with woody bark ; rhubarb threw off weak elastic branches ; roses shed superfluous petals and muscled into the potato patch ; vegetables , weeds and shrubs increased their ranks or sizes while snowdrifts or perennial flowers transformed the land . |
| 19 | I threw myself with apparent enthusiasm into a conversation Marietta and the solicitor were having about the difficulty of finding and keeping reliable cleaning ladies . |
| 20 | A much more specific fear was that young people would be provoked into imitative crime by the daring exploits witnessed on the screen , and the National Council of Public Morals addressed itself with particular vigour to the belief ‘ that the picture house is responsible for the increase in juvenile crime , and that boys are often led to imitate crimes ( larceny or burglary ) which they have seen in the pictures , or to steal money that they may pay for admission , . |
| 21 | Russians in Central Asia , imperialists in India , South-East Asia , and Africa , colonizers in Australasia , and the commercial intruders in China and Japan all expressed themselves with striking forcefulness through this one architectural type . |
| 22 | Isobel , thinking of that as she walked in the gardens at St-Cloud in the autumn sunshine , hugged herself with secret joy . |
| 23 | Ah , but who , she asked herself with sudden foreboding , is going to cure you of Penry Meredith Vaughan ? |
| 24 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 25 | Before he cleaned himself with old newspaper , Holly knew the germ of his idea . |
| 26 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |
| 27 | To this end , the Halifax allied itself with Standard Life , an insurer , and now earns commissions on sales of unit trusts and life insurance through its branches . |
| 28 | So much for that gallant , knightly rescuer , she berated herself with sudden savagery . |
| 29 | I astonished myself with this realization . |
| 30 | If only social workers and other professionals familiarized themselves with these research findings and integrated them into their everyday practice both tragedies and unwarrantable interventions could be avoided or kept to an absolute minimum . |