Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His peers liked him , even , in the end , Fairbrother , who enjoyed climbing himself and appreciated Richard 's gifts . |
| 2 | It should fulfil the double function of protecting himself and appealing to Lorton . |
| 3 | He could think of nothing but disguising himself and rushing her on a dark night . |
| 4 | The lower age limit on party membership was reduced to 16 ; this came after the party lost 700,000 members since reconstituting itself and coming a humiliating fourth place in the national elections in March and April [ see p. 37380 ] . |
| 5 | As well as thinking of your aura , another way of protecting yourself while giving massage , and without blocking that all-important sensitivity , is to become a channel rather than the source of healing energies . |
| 6 | . Can I just ask the other question perhaps which is relevant when people do make a contribution if they actually identify themselves so that may be useful if actually know who people are representing themselves or representing an organisation . |
| 7 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
| 8 | ‘ Foreigners have no God , ’ she claimed , as if she wanted to weaken my resolve and then , correcting herself and asking God 's pardon , she changed this to ‘ Our God , the God of Islam , is different from theirs in the West . ’ |
| 9 | Being entirely uninhibited when expressing herself and equipped with a famous ( and at times infamous ) ‘ caustic wit ’ , her self-assertion was never subtle . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing , ’ she said quickly , fanning herself and turning slightly , so that the shadow of the willow hid her embarrassment . |
| 11 | Besides breaking the law they were , by flaunting themselves and pestering passers-by , causing an intolerable degree of embarrassment and giving visitors a deplorable impression of London 's immorality . |
| 12 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |
| 13 | It was then a forcing ground for the new classes establishing themselves and exerting their power against the existing feudal order . |
| 14 | Faced with the choice of reinventing itself or hanging up its boots , 88open , the supporters club for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC vendors , is said to be finalising a plan to offer its conformance testing expertise to the industry at large , via a separate organisation that will develop and implement test suites for suppliers of other RISC architectures and consortia like PowerOpen or Sparc International it sees as potential customers . |
| 15 | Faced with the choice of reinventing itself or hanging up its boots , 88open , the supporters club for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC vendors , is reportedly finalising a plan to offer up its conformance testing expertise to the industry at large , via a separate organisation that will develop and port test suites for suppliers of other RISC architectures and consortia like PowerOpen or Sparc International it sees as potential customers . |
| 16 | They can not win , for the aim of the stressed work-force is to avoid having to embrace the discomfiting uncertainty by construing itself as victimized and manipulated . |
| 17 | Sat in a plastic cafe near Aarau station , he 's ungainly and absent-minded , his favourite word is ‘ cooool ’ , he talks a lot about his trouble motivating himself and has , much of the time , the dazed smile of the happily , hopelessly lost . |
| 18 | The cat had stopped cleaning itself and had curled up asleep in a little pool of sunshine . |
| 19 | Am I deceiving myself and deceiving us all ? |
| 20 | Here is William Wheeler , the last great encyclopediast of ants ( 1910 ) , describing Amazon ants at home : they sit about in stolid idleness , or pass the long hours begging the slaves for food or cleaning themselves and burnishing their ruddy armour . |
| 21 | Their approach is not simply regarded by the older men as a reflection of youthful zeal and an extravagant sense of mission , but as a means of adapting to the difficulties , as young men , of presenting themselves as possessed of legal authority ( an interesting practical recognition of the importance of interaction in securing compliance ) . |
| 22 | Political parties mobilize bias within the populations of liberal democracies , identifying potential cleavages and presenting themselves as representing the interests of one group more than those of any other ( while recognizing that , for the state to retain its legitimacy , it is necessary to respect the interests of other groups , and thereby present a ‘ one nation ’ perspective in certain situations ) . |
| 23 | He kicked out as if kicking himself and yelped as his bare feet hit the end of the basket and a sharp end of wicker stabbed into his sole . |
| 24 | This is the very last place where they would want some outsider installing himself and pursuing his researches . |
| 25 | Info World says Microsoft Corp is reversing itself and plans to tell developers about undocumented calls in Windows NT . |
| 26 | Much of this is due to the face that , following the recent Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on pub ownership , many breweries are actually moving out of brewing itself and concentrating instead on pub management — an area where they believe they stand to make the greatest profits . |
| 27 | At present , any government can simply print currency and spend it , enriching itself while impoverishing its citizens . |
| 28 | LABOUR 'S policy review was a symbol of the party renewing itself and becoming again a force for change , Tom Sawyer , deputy general secretary of Nupe , the public sector workers ' union , said at the start of four days of debate on the review reports . |
| 29 | Jessica got to her knees , holding herself and snorting , then staggered to her feet and ran down to the water . |
| 30 | She reiterated the Governments view ’ first expressed by us in 1985 that the majority of full-time students should not have access to benefits as a means of supporting themselves whilst studying . ’ |