Example sentences of "be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I shall be enjoying myself at the wedding |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Business Objects SA , a French software house that markets an object-oriented data access tool for end-users which bypasses SQL , will be launching itself onto the UK market next Wednesday . |
| 4 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 5 | The president was supposed to be dissociating himself from the Shah not encouraging him . |
| 6 | But not too many of those who reckoned she should be pitting herself alongside the professionals recognised that she was putting herself through a far tougher ordeal by playing in a junior championship where she had everything to lose , nothing to gain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | My aim would be to fit myself into the game unobtrusively … |
| 9 | The gulls can see the help and benefit they receive from Iago 's service , but can not see , or conceive , that Iago could be benefiting himself at the same time ; and no one could possibly see that Iago is in fact benefiting himself by destroying them . |
| 10 | Distillery played with great spirit but Crusaders must be kicking themselves for the chances they threw away . |
| 11 | Molesworth claimed that the House would not be committing itself to the larger scheme , nevertheless it was not in a mood for what George Bankes called an ‘ extensive scheme to enable Cabinet Ministers to entertain foreign visitors and their friends ’ . |
| 12 | A good dancing tune now , or else you might be dancing yourself on the end of a rope . ’ |
| 13 | Jennie did not realize the purpose of the mirrors and would shout , ‘ Do n't be looking at yerself , do n't be admiring yerself in the mirror . ’ |
| 14 | We should be asking ourselves about the character of individuals which are being produced by the family forms that we have today and about law 's part in creating the domestic group . |
| 15 | ‘ Although we will not be contesting the election in Darlington and Richmond , we shall be involving ourselves in the debate about environmental issues which have attracted scant attention from the other main parties . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wilkinson said : ‘ I wo n't be throwing myself in the canal over the collapsed deal . |
| 18 | Hooto ( TM ) may , even now , be congratulating himself on the risks he 's taken , the frontiers he 's conquered . |
| 19 | ‘ If I was to insult the contestants I would be shooting myself in the foot . |
| 20 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |
| 21 | To crush strikes and abandon political reform would be to throw himself into the arms of those groups wedded not just to authoritarian politics but to neo-Stalinist economic institutions and principles . |