Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [to-vb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — helping clients to wash themselves , toileting and dealing with incontinence |
| 2 | The importance of such skills in enabling school-leavers to present themselves with confidence and to function effectively within the world of work and as responsible citizens is clear . |
| 3 | Cigarette filters are designed to trap some of the tar and nicotine enabling smokers to wean themselves off cigarettes gradually . |
| 4 | GREAT Portland Estates boss Richard Peskin is warning shareholders to brace themselves for a dividend cut next year . |
| 5 | Philip got his revenge when his army beat an Athenian-led alliance at the battle of Chaironea in 338BC , thereby putting Greece under his control and , a little later , causing Demosthenes to kill himself by poison . |
| 6 | Indeed , Dorinda now advises other women to recognize that beauty can not be made to last , and Leapor closes the poem urging women to improve themselves spiritually so that old age will be satisfying : |
| 7 | He said that he took to writing novels to support himself and his family and to enable him to devote himself to his religious writings and poems . |
| 8 | Fixing prices to keep themselves afloat is yet another insult to the public who , without choice , have subsidised this industry . |
| 9 | This involves violating one 's own rights by failing to express honest feelings , thoughts and beliefs , and consequently permitting others to violate oneself . |
| 10 | The world of motor racing loves to surround itself in secrecy … what goes in to the automatic gearboxes … suspensions and highly tuned engines is more to do with science than sport … |
| 11 | Helping families to help themselves |
| 12 | ‘ Just as there is comfort in eating , so there is comfort spending — buying things to make yourself feel better , ’ observes Simon Gelsthorpe . |
| 13 | He had used the rest buying drinks to console himself and had then staggered back to the flat for the night . |
| 14 | The bar closed during dinner but a delightful custom prevailed which consisted of arranging all the bottles on a table in the hall below a notice inviting guests to help themselves and enter libations imbibed in the book provided . |
| 15 | The government , it said , intended to use this conference to get all negotiating parties to commit themselves to " such fundamentals as a multiparty state , a free economy and press , and protection of human rights and property " . |
| 16 | He would need to be continually finding opportunities to put himself on display to the populace : walkabouts , tours of business premises and factories and farms , appearances in pubs and clubs , visits to colleges and hospitals and homes for the elderly , attendances at all sorts of social functions and ceremonies — the list could be endless . |
| 17 | Some drivers are reported to have taken the law into their own hands by illegally carrying weapons to defend themselves . |
| 18 | Helping women to help themselves has very positive results . |
| 19 | She had to keep inventing ruses to protect herself against this resident ratpack , one of which was perpetual creativity through weaving a tapestry which she never finished . |
| 20 | After countless such visits he was afraid to look into the bowl in case something of himself had been lost in his body 's writhing struggles to empty itself . |
| 21 | The old story about the Roman legionaries using nettles to keep themselves warm on night duty in the cold northern province that was Britain may be apocryphal , but there is no doubt that the sting resulting from the touch of a nettle leaf causes a burning sensation . |