Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if his father felt a need to torture himself ; to surround himself with the symbols of lost joy . |
| 2 | It is difficult for individuals to identify themselves with the objectives of a large organisation . |
| 3 | ‘ Our position as an extension of the working class is to ally ourselves with the miners and to fight the government 's relocation programme , ’ read a banner outside the university , which was on strike . |
| 4 | Nobody 's bothered about Pike or how or why he went through Mr Marr 's pockets , cleaned out his ID , took his keys and squatted in the house to acquaint himself with the principles of ufology . |
| 5 | For Svend not to keep the appointment he made , solely to pleasure himself with the attractions of Copenhagen , will be regarded as an act of arrant rudeness , and will almost certainly disqualify him from gaining the approval of my brother-in-law 's cousin who himself is an ex-patriate Dane . ’ |
| 6 | She continued to surprise herself with the capabilities of her augmented flesh . |
| 7 | The warm-blooded supporters tend to ally themselves with the supporters of a theory about the relationships of the dinosaurs . |
| 8 | She saw that it had been a mistake — an evasion perhaps ? — ; to hamper herself with the abstractions of that cryptic poem . |
| 9 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 10 | Your Committee being by nature shy , retiring , modest people , would be the last to compare themselves with the Captains and Kings — more like your temporary , acting , unpaid Lance Corporals , — Dogsbodies one and all . |
| 11 | In practice this means that we do n't need to concern ourselves with the contents of such data files ; they 're not for human consumption without previous digestion by a computer . |
| 12 | Critics charged that he was too busy thinking about France to concern himself with the problems of the French people . |
| 13 | In consequence , I acquired Beejay , an animal who is too laid back to concern himself with the eccentricities of any vehicle he encounters . |
| 14 | A Buryat tale relates how one of their groups decided to link itself with the Russians because their own khan chopped off heads for crimes which merited mere birching in Muscovite territory . |
| 15 | It is clear at that stage the London committee envisaged funding its proposed activities by subscriptions , and that it intended to concern itself with the diseases of cows and sheep as well as horses . |
| 16 | For the moment , Simon is busy trying to familiarise himself with the mysteries babies bring into the home — such as nappies . |
| 17 | The crisis revealed , however , that the king 's war no longer had the wholehearted support of the community , and more ominously , that some members of the nobility were prepared to associate themselves with the commons ' demands for concessions and reforms . |
| 18 | All primary teachers need to familiarise themselves with the requirements for history at Key Stage 2 ( see Boxes 9 and 10 ) . |
| 19 | I would , however , wish to associate myself with the observations of my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , as to the unsatisfactory nature of this conclusion . |