Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor struggled to keep himself from slipping down the glowing tunnel , which he had entered first . |
| 2 | Sivell seems to have the old and young balanced quite well and he will have to stop himself from dusting down the mantlepiece once more . |
| 3 | Dr Craig-Dunlop , who owns it , prides himself on having all the latest equipment . ’ |
| 4 | By Oct. 14 he had resigned himself to submitting merely the question of proxy voting by husbands to the seven-member Constitutional Council set up in 1989 . |
| 5 | He comes , and after a heated discussion he commits himself to closing down the factory by 1992 . |
| 6 | Pink riding hats , turquoise waistcoats , stetsons ( Jane just stopped herself from asking where the corks were ) and they wore all these glories even when they were mucking out . |
| 7 | Noticing a badly dressed woman while driving in Knightsbridge , she ca n't restrain herself from rolling down the window and crying out ‘ Why ? ’ in sheer exasperation . |
| 8 | The waitress made off again , and Dimity applied herself to pouring out the tea . |
| 9 | The French won but it was a Pyrrhic victory and their victorious momentum was lost ; they contented themselves with sailing up the Ouse , burning settlements on the way and anchoring within sight of the town before they withdrew . |
| 10 | Organisations such as Gamblers Anonymous concern themselves with piecing together the casualties of addiction . |
| 11 | The next necessary act in this play is for the two to reassure each other of their discretion ; from the monk : And from the wife : Agreement on the sexual exchange is thus sealed : They can then indulge themselves in filling out the details of their play — and anticipating the events of the act to come — at a certain amount of leisure . |
| 12 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 13 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 14 | To be fair , engineers are also impressed by the idea of harnessing the purifying capabilities of nature in this way , largely confining themselves to pointing out the real-world constraints on the wilder flights of fancy . |
| 15 | Thousands of you have kindly let us know much more about yourselves by filling in the questionnaire in our November issue . |
| 16 | His aunt had always kept the door locked , fearing that children might venture into the mill and hurt themselves by tumbling down the ladders . |
| 17 | Once , at school , the girls had amused themselves by putting together the perfect woman , and Jane had been surprised when they chose her eyes , which were large and brown . |
| 18 | To raise themselves by pulling down the Seven . |