Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] with [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep yourself clean from head to foot and provide yourself with opening medicine in case of need . |
| 2 | Nigel himself vacillated between belief in and total rejection of death , and busied himself with sorting out his desk and jettisoning surplus papers . |
| 3 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |
| 4 | But Yorke wisely confines the psychology to the sub-text and contents herself with keeping the narrative moving . |
| 5 | Corbett could scarcely understand some of the accents and contented himself with gazing around . |
| 6 | Luckily my father grew tired of this grand scheme and contented himself with firing the odd surprise question at me concerning the capacity of the umbrella-stand in pints or the total area in fractions of an acre of all the curtains in the house actually hung up at the time . |
| 7 | Although invited by the Liberal Party to be their candidate for the Clapham Division 20 years ago or more , [ he ] was unable to accept the invitation , and contented himself with speaking for the Liberal or Progressive candidate at every available opportunity in many elections . |
| 8 | Cassie was tempted to attract his attention but she resisted the temptation and contented herself with gazing at his undoubted magnificence . |