Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] with a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You invest in the equity market to provide yourself with a stream of future dividends which will hopefully outpace inflation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Outwardly there was a refusal to identify themselves with a class label . |
| 9 | And if you 're a self-confessed chocoholic , then you 'll really be able to spoil yourself with a slice of Tesco Chocolate Roulade . |
| 10 | Buddhist — to ally himself with a religion whose roots lie far from Wimbledon . ’ |
| 11 | My clever chat would avail me nothing in the face of the fact that I had chosen to ally myself with a woman who practically peed her pants at some salesman 's blue jokes . |
| 12 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 13 | ‘ It is very good for old people and sufferers of arthritis who find it difficult to dry themselves with a towel , ’ says Chris . |
| 14 | They have long advised serious car-radio listeners to equip themselves with a Radio Data System . |
| 15 | In away this is a decision to present oneself with a problem arid then to set about solving that problem . |
| 16 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 17 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 18 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 19 | As a rule , he prefers to shake his finger at men as they move by wrong paths from the cradle to the grave , and to remind himself with a frown that he , too , is human — a frown that is almost a sigh : |
| 20 | It was not in the king 's interest to associate himself with a movement which at most would merely ensure the removal from power of one magnate clique and its replacement by another . |