Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used wholemeal flour to make bread , scones , pies and cakes , concocted elaborate salads and dosed himself with vitamins . |
| 2 | Holliman decided that they had to take cover , so they scuttled into a patch of scrub and camouflaged themselves with nets . |
| 3 | He drove his Volvo to a beauty spot last month , drank most of a bottle of whisky and gassed himself with fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 4 | A herd of Asian elephant cows with calves drink and cool themselves with mud . |
| 5 | Once installed , tenants were regularly visited by voluntary lady rent-collectors whose task was to advise tenants on the management of the household or other aspects of their lives — how to sweep their floors , wash their children and clothing and to conduct themselves with propriety . |
| 6 | Groundcrew were emotional and applied themselves with vigour to their checks , to keep their minds off the subject in hand — just as the aircrew had done in the cockpit on the flight from Cranfield to Waddington . |
| 7 | Swegen also had dealings with the Swedes , and involved himself with Normandy and in the Irish Sea , perhaps selling his ill-gotten gains and fraternising not only with Duke Richard II in Rouen , but also the rulers of Norse settlements in Ireland such as Dublin , Wexford , Waterford , Cork and Limerick . |
| 8 | Kick off your hand-tooled leather moccasins and kneel in a prayer-like manner as we parade the rumpy pumpy king of lurve techno , BLAKE BAXTER , before your reddened and disbelieving eyes , or go and see a play about clubbing , Excess XS , check out the GROOVE CHECK Single Of The Week , and familiarise yourself with BUMP 's all-time prime movers . |
| 9 | No wonder men and women alike roar and wet themselves with fright and delight as the horns scrape past the boldly offered ( and artificially enhanced ) raison d'être . |
| 10 | In the first instance we go to work in order to eat and drink and provide ourselves with shelter . |
| 11 | I learned to read the galley proofs and familiarised myself with printers ' hieroglyphics . |
| 12 | Doreen turned her broad kindly face away and busied herself with dinner preparations . |
| 13 | They inflicted wounds on themselves in the sword dance and castigated themselves with ankle whips made of leather and bone , sprinkling the altar of the goddess with their blood . |
| 14 | Mrs Frizzell fumbled with handbag , parcel and gloves , and finally managed to pick up the teacup as well , and to serve herself with sugar . |
| 15 | The Amarilis is Club 18–30 at its best — a place to meet friends , relax and enjoy yourself with people your own age . |
| 16 | She disposed of her errand , and armed herself with cash , and they went to shop , the usual duty shopping for the household , the more esoteric lines which were not stocked and delivered locally ; and a few items for her own pleasure . |
| 17 | Jules , you can accompany Alice and familiarize yourself with London . |
| 18 | I start browsing out of a sense of duty to begin with , and drench myself with showers of settled rainwater every time I reach into a bush . |
| 19 | Sometimes , I 'd have to take a turn if someone failed to arrive , enthroning myself at the green baize table and stuffing myself with shrimp rolls and pickles , me , the killer who 'd lived on bugs . |
| 20 | Copam Electronics Inc , describing itself as Taiwan 's second biggest personal computer maker , is seeking court protection from its creditors after making a $19.2m loss in 1992 on sales of about $100m , and saddling itself with $77m bank debt . |
| 21 | At the Day School the science tutors left behind their spectrometers , computers and chemicals and equipped themselves with whisks , wine and tantalising samples of their edible ‘ experiments ’ . |
| 22 | She had lied and deceived , she had painted her lips with toxic red paint from a box of water colours or with the less toxic red dye of rationed Smarties , she had darkened her lashes with shoe polish and perfumed herself with sample offers of cheap perfume solicited through sycophantic correspondence with cosmetic manufacturers . |
| 23 | She whimpered and covered herself with injuries , saying she could eat shit if that would please the sorceress , eat the sorceress 's own shit , and drink her piss too , if it pleased her . |
| 24 | It extended its powers over smaller towns and communes , such as Nonantola , and allied itself with others . |
| 25 | That we are really praying for peace and identifying ourselves with peace struggle in Ireland . |
| 26 | When Louis died a few months later , Thibaut aligned with a league of dissident barons who opposed the regent of France , Louis 's widow Blanche of Castile , but he soon abandoned the barons and reconciled himself with Blanche . |
| 27 | 'As you all know , this was to have been a happy occasion , an opportunity for members old and new to join together and indulge ourselves with history in pleasant surroundings , linked in our common interest by the traditions of the Circle . |
| 28 | At Santerre 's insistence we sat and warmed ourselves with possets of hot wine and slices of sugared pastry . |
| 29 | I would have you stay a week only and behave yourself with kindness to me . |
| 30 | Mary Tyrone , perhaps the central character of the play but certainly not the sole source of discord , is a fading beauty trying to find solace from the harsh realities of the external world and internal torment in steeping herself in lost ideals and numbing herself with drugs . |