Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] [that] [pers pn] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can a manager feel happy making strategic decisions simply on the basis of what his lieutenants tell him , without satisfying himself that they are not simply spouting the IBM conventional wisdom that has got the company into the mess it is in today ? |
| 2 | Satisfying himself that he was absolutely alone , Yanto sat down on a handy clump of grass and removed his boots , which together with the two rabbits , he placed under a nearby blackthorn bush . |
| 3 | McLeish held on to his temper , reminding himself that he was very tired . |
| 4 | After going to the door and reassuring himself that they were entirely alone , Colonel Moore recited the wealth of his ward . |
| 5 | Meredith hastily curbed her natural friendliness , reminding herself that she was n't at home now , gossiping to strangers and leaping into any car that came down the lane . |
| 6 | She had to get a grip on her ridiculous emotions , had to keep reminding herself that it was only the club he wanted . |
| 7 | He kept telling himself that he was as good as anyone around . |
| 8 | She tried telling herself that he was just another idle aristocratic adventurer ; she had been looked over by several of the type and others of lesser breeding during her ten years in the public eye at the Fish . |
| 9 | She was telling herself that she was n't falling for him . |
| 10 | It was gratifying to have people shake her hand who once would n't have given her the time of day , and when she walked through the dreary rooms where evidence of the late Adelaide Morey still abounded she had trouble convincing herself that she was now the mistress here . |
| 11 | Convincing herself that she was now over-reacting , Belinda got the headache tablets , then went to dress , her excitement returning as she put on Faye 's dress . |
| 12 | Do not expect me to congratulate you , madam , I am too busy congratulating myself that I am not the father-in-law of a man who can speak so demeaningly of any young girl in public . |
| 13 | ‘ I keep telling myself that it is n't possible , that I imagined it . ’ |
| 14 | I kept telling myself that it was n't likely , that the man who shot at me could n't have known anything about my boat or he would n't have asked about my car , that I 'd met no one else on the entire expedition , and that if ever a place could be described as lonely and unvisited , it was Winter Marsh in mid-October . |