Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors of Policing the Crisis , although concerning themselves primarily with the ‘ mugging panic ’ of the 1970s , also focus on what they take to be the changing moral climate in 1960s Britain . |
| 2 | He is one of the few first-class players who make a point also of drinking in the public bar at grounds rather than cocooning himself away in the players ’ or sponsors ' lounges . |
| 3 | While pledging themselves publicly to legislation , they worked privately to block many of the attempts to secure new acts and statutes . |
| 4 | All segments and bristles , they can anchor one end while pushing themselves forward with the other . |
| 5 | And in particular the position of Paisley and the DUP was enhanced by having done enough to prove themselves implacably opposed to appeasement of ‘ rebels ’ while distancing themselves sufficiently from the working-class loyalists to avoid the opprobrium of being closely associated with thugs and gangsters . |
| 6 | In 1867 he became minister to the Borough New synagogue , south London , a post which he combined with a variety of Jewish and non-Jewish charitable and philanthropic endeavours , whilst busying himself also as a prison visitor . |
| 7 | When committing himself enthusiastically to an undeniably outrageous tactic , this brave and noble warrior not only left his mark on the opposition but touched significantly upon a dilemma that threatens to develop into an insurmountable and perhaps crucifying problem for Bobby Robson , the temporarily reprieved England manager . |