Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pn reflx] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Doreen turned her broad kindly face away and busied herself with dinner preparations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In cultures the world over , women ( and in many cultures , men too ) have made their skin silky by bathing in oils , scented themselves with delicious perfumes , draped themselves in satin , velvet , silk and feathers , braided , brushed or oiled their hair , painted their lips and darkened their eyes and weighted themselves with gold and silver , or heavy ornaments . |
| 7 | The King 's Bench Prison was for gentlemen debtors , for ‘ men born to property and a high station in life who by their folly and crime reduced themselves to wretchedness and loaded themselves with disgrace ’ — though James Grant 's description in Pictures of Popular People could not be said to fit poor Benjamin Haydon . |