Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 2 | That means you fly to Leningrad and stick around for orders from someone who will introduce himself with the words , ‘ The face of the city has changed . ’ |
| 3 | Kruger did n't soil himself with the lucre , but Lorre had his fist out at every opportunity , and was wadding the bills into a fat , healthy roll while his master attempted union with the Infinite . |
| 4 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 5 | I myself saw a girl hang herself with a vine . ’ |
| 6 | He told them : ‘ You are weak people , you will always be weak people unless you can arm yourselves with the strength and courage required to gaze back into the questioning eyes of children ’ . |
| 7 | Apparently he asked Howard Samuel whether he would associate himself with an action to procure an injunction to restrain the manifesto , to which Howard Samuel had allegedly replied that he would . |
| 8 | It might well be of concern to him , for example , if the content of a particular religion proved to be at odds with the ethical criteria he would associate himself with the concept of Truth . |
| 9 | Having been primed by Draper back in the hotel room on who played or produced what , Branson would present himself with a box of tapes and play just one track by each artist ; enough to whet the appetite , but not so much as to test his customer 's patience — or indeed Branson 's own musical knowledge . |
| 10 | Kemalpasazade sought the advice of Mueyyedzade who counselled him to feign acceptance of Hacihasanzade 's proposal ; and when , on the next day , the latter petitioned the sultan , Bayezid II , to appoint Kemalpasazade to a kadilik , Mueyyedzade intervened , speaking highly of Kemalpasazade 's abilities and asking that he not be wasted in a kadilik but rather that he be given the vacant Taslik medrese so that he might busy himself with the pursuit of learning . |
| 11 | Yet he could never identify himself with a counter-attack either . |
| 12 | Her belief is that to reach a very wide audience one must establish character first so the audience can identify itself with the issue , through the character . |
| 13 | Perhaps history will repeat itself with the successor to the Community Programme , if the difficulties can be ironed out . |
| 14 | Or a ready-made team may present itself with a management buy-out , buy-in or acquisition . |
| 15 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 16 | The article concludes with a declaration that British members of the National Front should identify themselves with the struggle of the Palestinians : ‘ We must draw inspiration from people such as the Palestinians who having lost so much more than us , still continue to fight for national sovereignty , and stubbornly refuse to relinquish their national identity . ’ |
| 17 | Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently . |
| 18 | We go along with the theory that younger listeners will identify themselves with the group Cancer . |
| 19 | We go along with the theory that younger listeners will identify themselves with the group Cancer . |
| 20 | To be fair the answer was in the manual but this only highlights the fact that the various packages do n't automatically integrate themselves with the InteMate manager . |
| 21 | May I associate myself with the praise that has been heaped on the know-how fund ? |
| 22 | Families , even adults , will play with each other in the water or on land , chasing and staging mock battles , but even a solitary otter will amuse itself with a pebble ! |
| 23 | Article F(3) states : ‘ The Union shall provide itself with the means necessary to attain its objectives and carry through its policies . ’ |
| 24 | Dr Tipler suggests that it will occupy itself with the resurrection of the dead . |
| 25 | Raising more roses by seed can be a very frustrating business , or they can seed themselves with the efficiency and enthusiasm of weeds . |
| 26 | In the shifting pattern of dominance and submission which characterized tribal life , with warfare being carried out now against one , now against another group , it was natural that on occasion peoples should ally themselves with the Russians . |
| 27 | Informix says Storm means less work for MIS departments because users do n't have to understand the database schema and can do more work themselves with the tools . |
| 28 | I wished that I was less inhibited by my upbringing and could have done some extraordinary thing to confirm her diagnosis — danced on the table or stated that I would n't ally myself with a man with a face like a toothpaste advertisement . |
| 29 | Dustin also found that firing a gun was not something he was adept at , and would often burn himself with the powder from the blank cartridge . |
| 30 | Where NEWSFLASHes name a member of the department as a contact , the person should familiarise himself with the subject matter and have readily available those to whom reference may be made in order to progress the matter . |