Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Wrexham grandfather had been an active Gladstonian Liberal , and concerned himself with the temperance movement and local government . |
| 2 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 3 | ‘ Damnation ’ will approach his target and introduce himself with an opening line which usually goes something like , ‘ Hi . |
| 4 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 5 | Alter that first crowded day I retired to one of those green-tiled sanctuaries and lathered myself with a new bar of a famous toilet soap which Helen had put in my bag . |
| 6 | The Report of the Data Protection Committee was published late in 1978 , a bad time for political initiatives : within a few months the new Conservative Government was in office and contenting itself with a fresh and laborious round of further consultations — there seemed little likelihood of anything being done until , in 1981 , the Council of Europe , as part of its concern with human rights , opened its ‘ Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Data Processing ’ for signature by States which had appropriate legislation enacted . |
| 7 | He gave support to William Wallace in his fight for Scottish independence but deserted him and aligned himself with the English King Edward I who was trying to dominate Scotland . |
| 8 | But with the accession of Herod , Eisenman argues , most Sadducees — the Sadducees whom we know as such from biblical sources and from Josephus — betrayed their original loyalties and aligned themselves with the usurper . |
| 9 | So we spent the night at a cheap bed and breakfast nearby , and fortified ourselves with a breakfast of sausages , bacon and eggs . |
| 10 | Practise the above and familiarise yourself with the co-ordination required for turns in each direction before trying to fly proper circuits . |
| 11 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 12 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 13 | It is a problem which seems curiously common to left-arm spinners , and manifests itself with the bowler either failing to release the ball , or propelling it vertically into the air . |
| 14 | In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger . |
| 15 | Having clarified your objectives , and provided yourself with the necessary resources , make a start . |
| 16 | But his lordship 's grandfather was a cautious man , and provided himself with a secret way out at need . |
| 17 | Many blind people struggle to pay their bills and provide themselves with the necessities of life . |
| 18 | And provide yourself with a little amusement into the bargain ? ’ |
| 19 | Within Royal Ordnance which I have resumed the responsibility for I do n't know , Mr Chairman , I convened a meeting of the convenors to introduce myself and to familiarize myself with the movement and the industry only for the company to announce thirteen hundred redundancies , as we were meeting . |
| 20 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 21 | She felt the beginnings of a disastrous blush and busied herself with a dirty mark on the window , getting out her handkerchief and scrubbing , her back to Louise . |
| 22 | Ianthe flushed and busied herself with the coffee tray . |
| 23 | He was a dour middle-aged man , who feared he was a failure and compensated himself with an excessively professorial beard and a punctiliously formal manner . |
| 24 | And embroil myself with a man of Mr. B. 's power and fortune ! |
| 25 | ‘ When the State usurps the functions of the family ’ … and consoled himself with the thought that he never pontificated unless he was drunk . |
| 26 | They appeared to ignore him — and organized themselves with a secretariat of their own . |
| 27 | He nodded , smiling thinly , and fanned himself with the now redundant carpet-beater . |
| 28 | You must also buy a copy of Debrett and familiarize yourself with the names of those people in society we hope will become our clients . |
| 29 | We take up the fourth book and find ourselves with a work which , if we are not Latin scholars and particularly interested in medicine , might seem a dull dog . |
| 30 | When her son was badly injured in a road accident , she nursed him to the point of exhaustion , refusing outside help , and comforted herself with the thought that if only her family knew what she was going through , they would rush to her rescue . |