Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to this point the US had been binding itself to Vietnam with conceptual associations , policy objectives , and some material considerations . |
| 2 | Post-war criticism was ‘ gladiatorial ’ , as John Wain remarked years later , in 1972 , when the excitement had died down ; and attractive to the young for just that reason , since the young feed on moral drama : ‘ they need to feel that they are proving themselves by bravely attacking something powerful . ’ |
| 3 | Then make up a minimum of 650 calories ( more , if you are allowing yourself between 1,000 and 1,500 a day ) from Fibre-Filler ( see page 65 ) and the meals on the F-Plan menus . |
| 4 | This seems , this seems a worthwhile thing to do to me , Chairman , this may reflect that , this position that we are in the business cycle that er , you know , with a slightly optimistic outlook , a lot of firms are seeing themselves in a position to expand and , and need this to help them do so . |
| 5 | Walking , running and swimming are the best exercises you can do if you are using yourself in the correct way . |
| 6 | ‘ I am devoting myself to this mystery because i want to be a man . ’ |
| 7 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 8 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 9 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 10 | ‘ But I suppose that you are consoling yourself after the fashion of a fool who lives in the slums . |
| 11 | Not simply because it shows that you are enjoying yourself at that moment but because it actually contributes to your physical and mental health . |
| 12 | His rousing address finished with the exciting claim that ‘ IBM has been transforming itself into a solutions company ’ . |
| 13 | In fact , she did possess mettle , though going round alone in the jeep was — I believe — just feminine carelessness , like the terrible state she 'd leave her room in for her maid : powder everywhere , pink for face , white for body ; her long , strong , glossy hairs in the sink , so you would have thought the orang-utan had been availing himself of the facilities and not a pretty young woman of thirty-one . |
| 14 | OVER THERE , but thankfully not expected here in the near future : US TV audiences are bracing themselves for Roseanne : the cartoon , and an animated series featuring New Kids On The Block … |
| 15 | But the Conservatives are bracing themselves for a map of somewhat different complexion on Friday morning , if the opinion polls ’ verdicts prove true , with most of the changes wrought by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 16 | BRAZIL 's hospitals are bracing themselves for an epidemic of dengue , an acutely infectious disease caused by a virus . |
| 17 | CHANNEL ferry firms are bracing themselves for Britain 's biggest duty-free drink and cigarettes bonanza tomorrow . |
| 18 | BRITISH insurers are bracing themselves for claims totalling hundred of millions of pounds from the storm-battered U.S. |
| 19 | Tulip Computers NV is scheduled to announce 1992 figures tomorrow , and Amsterdam analysts are bracing themselves for a flood of red ink . |
| 20 | STAFF at the Wedgwood visitor centre are bracing themselves for a bumper summer season . |
| 21 | And Ireland 's top traditional dancers are bracing themselves for even more misery at the end of this month when the 18-year-old whizz-kid is due to return for the World Championships in Dublin . |
| 22 | Meanwhile the scholars are bracing themselves for more arguements . |
| 23 | COUNSELLORS are bracing themselves for a flood of inquiries when a TV drama is screened exposing a child migration scheme which shamed Britain . |
| 24 | Despite the news of investment in programmes worried staff at both stations are bracing themselves for cost cutting and job losses . |
| 25 | MINISTERS are bracing themselves for the release of unemployment figures on Thursday which are expected to go over the three million mark . |
| 26 | We are bracing ourselves in the Administration Centre for what promises to be an even better year two targetting very substantial growth over year one . |
| 27 | The Chancellor and the Prime Minister are patting themselves on the back for the fact that they have managed to reduce British inflation rates to something like the German levels , but there is a difference between the two . |
| 28 | I must have known that those were the very advantages I had been denying myself in denying myself food . |
| 29 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 30 | He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life … |