Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A constant irritant was contained in the possibility of the king-duke 's Gascon subjects appealing to the court of France , and thereby removing themselves , if only temporarily , from the Plantagenet jurisdiction . |
| 2 | Only by being more actively involved in identifying issues , organizing action , and thereby helping themselves by fighting for their own rights , can older people hope to improve matters . |
| 3 | Thus by referring to such values as ‘ our country 's values ’ , business men appeal to a higher loyalty than obedience to the law and thereby free themselves from its moral constraint . |
| 4 | Shortly stated , the main issue is whether a school which is over-subscribed so that it can not accept all the applications for admission can adopt religious criteria ( i.e. criteria intended to preserve the character of the school ) in selecting the successful applicants for admission and thereby exempt itself under section 6(3) ( a ) from the duty under section 6(2) to give effect to the preferences expressed by parents whose children do not meet such criteria . |
| 5 | ‘ What I 'm saying is that unless you take the opportunity to see the system installed and working you 'll be missing the chance of increasing your knowledge of the product and thereby depriving yourself of valuable information . |
| 6 | who wishes to " resign " his seat must apply for one of the above offices of profit and thereby disqualify himself from sitting . |
| 7 | His new habit of sleeping on and on to rid himself of as much time as possible and then of staying up drinking alone until very late only left him with none of his natural good time and hour upon hour of his bad . |
| 8 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 9 | He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter . |
| 10 | They screw their suppliers , screw their people and eventually screw themselves with it . |
| 11 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 12 | ( ’ Cardinal York' , as he became known , was a fervent believer in the Stuart cause and eventually called himself Henry IX , but plays little further part in the invasion story . ) |
| 13 | By the end of the first decade of the 19th century , he had become quite prosperous and eventually established himself in one of the old Bradley furnaces , building Bradley House around 1817 . |
| 14 | Less than a year later we got married and I moved down here and eventually found myself a job . |
| 15 | Mrs Smith accepted a sherry from her husband and looked resigned about the outcome of the evening and eventually excused herself to see to the dinner , and Mr Smith poured more whiskies and ‘ something harmless ’ for Nutty , which tasted delicious and brought on an amazing feeling of optimism . |
| 16 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 17 | Music became the voice of opposition to the war and its senseless waste of life , and effectively found itself a conscience . |
| 18 | Old people who took in their grandchildren at such moments might have few resources and little space themselves . |
| 19 | Twice before she reached the opposite bank Jenny missed her footing and plunged -chest-deep into the river , but each time she was able , to grasp the slippery stepping-stone and slowly haul herself up on to it . |
| 20 | The Smallholder arrived back among his companions and slowly divested himself of his pads . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's where my family live , ’ he says distantly , and slowly drink himself to death . |
| 22 | As she responded , he increased the pressure of his lips on hers until she realised what he was trying to do , and slowly allowed herself to be pushed back into a lying position . |
| 23 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 24 | It seems the original X Consortium , scheduled to get a new director in January and slowly dissociate itself from MIT over the next year , is n't evolving fast enough into a fleet-footed marketing vehicle or even churning out saleable technology quickly enough to suit everybody . |
| 25 | King : And endlessly contrast yourself and me . |
| 26 | The monthly Civil Engineer and Architects Journal , in its March edition , said that Hall was ‘ indulging the weakness of feeling annoyed that the scheme on which he had so greatly and justly plumed himself should fall into the hands of his successor ’ . |
| 27 | You give a good firm aid that would have your youngster wandering gently off to the left and suddenly find yourself falling off the side because the old hand did a sharp left turn ! |
| 28 | Another disparity was the different levels of income used in means tests for ‘ special places ’ ; parents could move house ( as they were more likely to in war ) and suddenly find themselves liable for greatly increased fees . |
| 29 | They played ‘ ’ Invitation to the Waltz' ’ on Radio 3 this morning' — she was speaking faster and faster , edging towards the gun — ‘ such a heavenly tune , I played it at school , and suddenly found myself waltzing round the kitchen , then Ethel leapt up and waltzed with me , and I thought perhaps there is a life after Hamish . |
| 30 | and suddenly found myself , with them , |