Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coutts & Co prides itself on offering comprehensive national and international banking and financial services with ‘ an unwavering commitment to courteous and individual service ’ . |
| 2 | The royal ritual was closely associated with the history of Osiris , the divine prototype on whom the pharaohs modelled themselves by re-enacting his traditional deeds . |
| 3 | The male busies himself with placing the eggs in a nest , and when this is complete , the ritual can begin again . |
| 4 | My feeling of distaste and fear manifested itself in mounting irritability . |
| 5 | Punk prided itself on making recordings with all the rough edges showing . |
| 6 | The Webbs devoted themselves to pressing these ideas upon leading politicians and civil servants . |
| 7 | As the main churches have become more liberal , Free Presbyterianism emerged to challenge the lack of ‘ real ’ Protestantism and hence offered an implicit challenge to the fraternal organizations to purify themselves by breaking their ties with the main , and now apostate , denominations . |
| 8 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |
| 9 | The terrible times had rendered individuals impotent ; many Jews consoled themselves by clinging to any available straw and concealed themselves behind bastions of casuistry . |
| 10 | Britta hated herself for wanting the arm to encircle her again . |
| 11 | The Jews defended themselves by quoting Hecataeus of Abdera . |
| 12 | After our first Report the tabloid journalists enjoyed themselves by writing provocative articles about how I was the professor for whom correct English did not matter . |
| 13 | The Rock of Pakistan contented himself with keeping watch for that bit longer . |
| 14 | The authors contented themselves with noting that things might be improved by more flexible and continuous transfer ( and not only at age thirteen ) , by the introduction of General Certificate of Education courses in the secondary modern schools , and by the creation of comprehensive schools . |
| 15 | Figure 7.6 A territorial rufous humming-bird weighs itself by perching on a spring balance . |
| 16 | Mr Deacon saved himself by running through the inferno to get to the staircase and outside . |
| 17 | His sympathies lay with the independents such as Henderson and Nixon ( who at one point in the 1930s constituted , in the absence of the nationalists , the official opposition at Stormont ) , but the Unionists had not yet shown the degree of liberalism they were to show under O'Neill in the 1960s and Paisley confined himself to promoting various ‘ ginger group ’ enterprises on the margins of politics . |
| 18 | Robyn gritted her teeth and refrained from answering — she needed all her powers of concentration to stop herself from slipping . |
| 19 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 20 | Cassie caught her breath , putting her hand over her mouth to stop herself from crying out . |
| 21 | He swore vehemently , causing Maggie to clamp a hand over her mouth to stop herself from laughing . |
| 22 | Allegedly unhappy about the sanitation and the cockroaches but by his own admission surprising himself by pining for ‘ Kensington , Belgravia , phone boxes and iron railings ’ , Lawrence returned to Blighty and spent an extended sojourn in Windsor , where he assembled Denim around him . |
| 23 | Earlier this year ICI committed itself to making information on its waste generation available to the public . |
| 24 | IBM is usually pretty forthcoming about the markets that it foresees for its products , but in this case limits itself to saying that it will appeal to professionals who would prefer ‘ easy-to-remember voice commands ’ to complicated keystrokes or mouse movements . |
| 25 | Anglican clergymen busied themselves with preaching up theories of divine right and non-resistance . |
| 26 | There is a wide choice of dinner menu and the management prides itself on offering service of a fine standard . |
| 27 | The management prides itself on offering excellent service at all levels , with a strong emphasis placed on giving guests individual , personal attention . |
| 28 | The management prides itself on offering comfortable accommodation in elegant surroundings , and puts an emphasis on providing excellent service . |
| 29 | This intimate family hotel offers a warm welcome to a homely atmosphere and the management prides itself on offering a choice of good local cooking in its dining-room . |
| 30 | A well run property , the management prides itself on offering good service . |