Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Refusing to allow herself the indulgence of looking in the mirror and repairing her make-up , she walked slowly back down the hall and opened the door again with trembling hands . |
| 2 | It 's almost as if they were looking to make themselves the most hated and hunted men on earth . ’ |
| 3 | As with the other areas discussed above , style has achieved a certain autonomy in contemporary industrial society , going beyond its capacity for ordering to become itself the focus of concern . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago they were Labour but switched in 1979 for one reasons , the right to buy which gave those genuinely attempting to better themselves the chance to do so . |
| 5 | First , administrative tribunals or authorities were subject to the full rigours of the Anisminic judgment : the parliamentary intent was presumed , subject to a clear contrary indication , to be that questions of law were to be decided by the courts ; the distinction between errors within jurisdiction and errors going to jurisdiction was , for practical purposes , abolished , and any error of law would automatically result in the tribunal having asked itself the wrong question . |
| 6 | The Government would be powerless , having denied itself the right of access to the ordinary courts in such an eventuality . |