Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 2 | Mr Attlee was careful to position himself with the majority view in Cabinet . |
| 3 | Oxford Polytechnic , deriving from a further education institution with poor facilities , had a struggle to establish itself with the CNAA . |
| 4 | It can not be stressed too strongly that a great deal of the blame for unsatisfactory deeds must lie in the failure of the Scottish legal profession to provide itself with a service for new styles . |
| 5 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 6 | Decentralization permits each locality to provide itself with the quantity of the good it prefers . |
| 7 | She had not looked deliberately , not wanting to tempt herself with the sight of him . |
| 8 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 9 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 10 | I will learn to know myself with the help of my inner teacher . |
| 11 | You invest in the equity market to provide yourself with a stream of future dividends which will hopefully outpace inflation . |
| 12 | In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement . |
| 13 | This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows . |
| 14 | While Montgomerie radiated confidence and respect for the course , it was a typically down-beat Sandy Lyle who prepared to re-acquaint himself with the course where he made his U.S. Open debut in 1980 . |
| 15 | It was time for Blake to re-acquaint himself with the stranger . |
| 16 | At the beginning of April , Sheikh Saud Nasir al-Sabah , a member of the royal family and Kuwait 's ambassador to America , visited Phoenix in order to reacquaint himself with the Phoenician . |
| 17 | He who endeavours to enrich himself with the property of others , should be deprived of part of his own . |
| 18 | Tonight was by way of a rehearsal to familiarize himself with the place , make final arrangements , and tell the landlord sufficient of their plans to ensure that there was no unforeseen interference . |
| 19 | Within Royal Ordnance which I have resumed the responsibility for I do n't know , Mr Chairman , I convened a meeting of the convenors to introduce myself and to familiarize myself with the movement and the industry only for the company to announce thirteen hundred redundancies , as we were meeting . |
| 20 | On the range , the men had to familiarize themselves with every form of weapon including German and Italian ones . |
| 21 | That since we have realised the position of women in the printing trade is seriously threatened , we women have been trying to organise ourselves with a view to securing justice for ourselves and for the women who may in future desire to practise the business of compositors or monotypists . |
| 22 | He 's a perfect team player , too : how kind he was to allow Moustache Nightmare to cover himself with a race car and a spare last year , while Patrese had but one machine at his disposal . |
| 23 | It was as if his father felt a need to torture himself ; to surround himself with the symbols of lost joy . |
| 24 | No , the best he could do was to fortify himself with the Nielson family , and wait a century or two . |
| 25 | Desperately trying to pull herself together , she strove to console herself with the thought that , if Ross could hardly remember their brief marriage , it was obviously going to make matters easier for them both during this hurried trip to America . |
| 26 | Such parties , as always , like to equate themselves with the sense of collective separateness , hostility to ‘ them ’ and the ‘ imagined community ’ which may be almost universally felt in their ‘ nation ’ , but they are very unlikely to be the only expression of such a national consensus . |
| 27 | Industry-level bargaining would seem to have corresponded most closely to the preferences of employers and their capacity to organise themselves with a view to protecting market shares and strengthening their own bargaining power . |
| 28 | Outwardly there was a refusal to identify themselves with a class label . |
| 29 | It is difficult for individuals to identify themselves with the objectives of a large organisation . |
| 30 | It was in the same year that Culture and Anarchy first appeared that the Charity Organisation Society was founded , to busy itself with the task of classifying and purifying the demoralised lower orders , and to sift out the ‘ deserving ’ from the ‘ undeserving ’ poor . |