Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if we have raised our body temperature by exercise or effort then cooling ourselves by taking a cold shower , a swim , or a cold drink makes us more comfortable . |
| 2 | As a youth , he was never an avid record collector and he had no real interest in applying himself to mastering an instrument . |
| 3 | ‘ It might take a letter a week to get to Germany , might n't it ? ’ said Mrs Fanshawe , taking her rings off and amusing herself by making them flash in the sunlight right into Nurse Rose 's eyes . |
| 4 | Mervyn , representing Help the Aged , or at least representing myself in responding to Chris Heginbotham 's address , but er , here for Help the Aged today . |
| 5 | • Give artificial respiration if your child stops breathing , protecting yourself from burning by wiping his face first ( below ) or giving aid through a clean handkerchief . |
| 6 | Apart from making sure that permanent mains-voltage lights are installed by a competent electrician , the main way of protecting yourself against getting an electric shock from garden lights is to install an RCD . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , both Franca and Alison had , after initial suspicion , adopted Irina , at least as far as amusing themselves by helping her to spend money on having her hair done and buying clothes . |
| 8 | I must have known that those were the very advantages I had been denying myself in denying myself food . |
| 9 | 'I persuaded myself that I did n't want to introduce irrelevances into your investigation , when in fact I was protecting myself from having to relive traumas of the past . |
| 10 | The idea of reading The Faerie Queene in an armchair and then announcing oneself as having gained virtue was a largely foreign concept to Spenser 's brand of humanism . |
| 11 | Rune , having obeyed her command , was sitting motionless , contenting himself by regarding her steadily through half-closed eyes . |
| 12 | We are conscious of what Zuckerman does for Roth : when he helps a man to gather his spilt heart pills , it is Roth helping himself by assigning a small mercy . |
| 13 | ‘ But the thrust of our approach is to start at home , focusing on one thing at a time rather than confusing ourselves by trying to do everything at once — which is a major reason why 85 per cent of organisations trying to do something in this area fail to get it right . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He could n't stop torturing himself by examining the room 's new look from every angle . |
| 16 | He is intrinsically proud : this reveals itself through his habit of defining himself by telling you his achievements . |
| 17 | It is strange how so many of Palin 's characters , from Pythons ' Mr Gumby through to the stuttering animal-loving crook in Cleese 's A Fish Called Wanda , seemed to be based on his father , almost as if he was persecuting himself by playing infinite versions of the man . |
| 18 | Some members of the Association hoped that English in education would help achieve such ends by addressing itself to countering linguistic perversion . |
| 19 | Everyone said I was playing when I got out the clay or plasticine , but really I was training myself without knowing it . |
| 20 | The journey , by either route , is at least twelve thousand miles and the birds fly non-stop , sustaining themselves by diving into the sea for fish as they go . |
| 21 | MIPS is preening itself for getting the R4400 upgrade out in the timeframe it predicted it would a year ago . |
| 22 | The oriental did not flinch , but merely drew the two youngsters close together in front of him , effectively shielding himself by placing them between himself and the killing arc of the shotgun 's blast . |
| 23 | He lived for his profession , so much so that , instead of limiting himself to examining the remains of bomb-blast victims , he attended the courses and lectures available only to a very few on bomb-making and disarming offered at Fort Halstead . |
| 24 | The system made no attempt to determine deep structure parses , limiting itself to finding surface parse trees . |
| 25 | She needs assistance to get her on and off the toilet and in cleaning herself after opening her bowels . |
| 26 | She looks for no way to comfort herself except by degrading herself by having sex . |
| 27 | So I skulked round the pub , had a burger and a pint and after embarrasing myself by asking two likely candidates if they were Mark , I shot off . |
| 28 | You despise me — so are n't you degrading yourself by having anything to do with me ? |
| 29 | Making excuses e.g. excusing yourself for shouting at the babysitter — after all she was three minutes late |
| 30 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |