Example sentences of "to be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers are known to be bracing themselves for a series of defeats . |
| 2 | After breaking into two local homes and hi-jacking the occupants ' cars the IRA launched their attack on the apparently vulnerable target only to be ambushed themselves by the SAS . |
| 3 | Just because we appear to be gorging ourselves on war coverage does n't mean to say that we swallow it whole . |
| 4 | By far the largest concentration is found at Chichester gravel pits , and the only other area at which more than 100 birds have occurred annually is Weir Wood Reservoir ; similar flocks seem now to be establishing themselves at Darwell Reservoir and Rye Harbour gravel pits . |
| 5 | The doctors seemed to be availing themselves of my immobility . |
| 6 | for not only was the Earl Patrick suspicious of anyone coming from the regency , but he happened at this juncture to be consoling himself with a local lady , in the absence of marital comforts . |
| 7 | Ryzhkov made no mention of a referendum in his address on May 24 , however , and subsequently officials appeared to be distancing themselves from the idea . |
| 8 | You seem to be financing yourself by borrowing against your leases — leveraging in an expanding property market while interest rates are low . ’ |
| 9 | Only now his charges seemed to be settling themselves into occupation , having forgotten the urgent purpose of their return to London . |
| 10 | In 1821 , Mr. Pulley resigned and his successor , Thomas Woolridge , a surgeon of the High Street , was appointed at 50 guineas per annum , to be followed himself by Mr. Blower a few years later at a salary of £63 per annum . |
| 11 | Perhaps the survivors of a stranding are less likely to be stranded themselves at a later date . |
| 12 | It felt strange to be letting himself into his own house again . |
| 13 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 14 | It was also , in his view , unpardonable on grounds of principle , since by the autumn of 1940 Vichy seemed to be aligning itself with the foreign policy of the Nazi regime and aspects of its political ideology . |
| 15 | She remembered because she had seen her drive off and it was unusual for ‘ a señora of her quality ’ to be driving herself with no companion . |
| 16 | He seems at times to be reassuring himself of his grip upon a world of his own devising . |
| 17 | The impact of that on Leeds residents perception of the migration opportunities is quite different quite different from a new settlement on a very accessible corridor which would have to be promoted and would have to be built quickly to be to present itself as a successful venture . |
| 18 | " I do n't mind investigating poisonings on the farms but I object to being poisoned myself in my own home ! " |