Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although working people are now more likely to be contributing to an occupational or personal pension , even in future years not all people will have been able to accumulate sufficient provision to support themselves in retirement — for example those people who have not worked for many years because they were unemployed or disabled or caring for relatives . |
| 2 | I jut hope to god Fashanu and John Scales sought themselves out . |
| 3 | Having gained that second term , Lange appointed himself Minister of Education , swapping his foreign affairs portfolio with Russell Marshall , thus signalling a major initiative in education reform . |
| 4 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 5 | A fairly high level and we 've got a bit to go ourselves I think . |
| 6 | ‘ Monsieur Gaston concerned himself with other things . ’ |
| 7 | His concern about Germany manifested itself again in 1936 , when he accepted the post in Geneva of League of Nations high commissioner for German refugees , a position he held until 1938 . |
| 8 | All of us probably envy the ability of Imelda , Ivana , Diana and co to indulge themselves with a glorious shopping spree whenever the desire grips them . |
| 9 | Her heart emptied itself out , you could have tolled her and she would have sounded hollow and cracked . |
| 10 | Accepting her inspection , he waited , one hand on the mast support to steady himself . |
| 11 | Isabel asked herself broodingly . |
| 12 | Isabel asked herself as fitzAlan swung himself into the saddle behind her . |
| 13 | Isabel asked herself . |
| 14 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 15 | And I do not give you permission to fling yourself at her feet , grab her hands and weep into her palms . |
| 16 | Will signs himself off as " ye Miner . " |
| 17 | You only have to read what women in emerging feminist groups and movements are writing , to see that these patterns repeat themselves time and again . |
| 18 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 19 | Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it . |
| 20 | When I inquired after the baptism he said he had been mistaken , it had been yesterday , but that there would be another in a few days and , anyway , who needed a baptism to enjoy themselves ? |
| 21 | Asa asked himself . |
| 22 | And in addition , since the writer disassociates herself and most ‘ caring and considerate people ’ from the people who caused Zahira 's experiences , it suggests that nothing need be done to change the set-up which resulted in her tragic experience , that citizens whose government is racist and oppressive are in no way responsible for its policies . |
| 23 | The core Marxist value is freedom — freedom from exploitation , freedom from the coercion of others , and freedom to realize oneself in creative labour . |
| 24 | As he reflected on the brutality of what he had seen done in the name of religion in the Civil War , Taylor asked himself , ‘ If persons be Christians in their lives and Christians in their profession , … why should I hate such persons whom God loves and who love God , because … they have not the same opinion as I have ? ’ |
| 25 | How the hell can I tell her after what she 's just been through , Newman asked himself . |
| 26 | The now familiar palpitating flutter in her heart made itself felt and the blood drummed unpleasantly in her head so that she feared she might lose her senses . |
| 27 | Jesus Jones , Pop Will Eat Itself … |
| 28 | Hard-faced , eclectic and distinctly dance-friendly , DF 118 are Pop Will Eat Itself on bad drugs , Big Audio Dynamite with a ring of low-rent authenticity and much more besides . |
| 29 | CHART stars Pop Will Eat Itself blew up when a mix-up stopped them appearing in Sweden . |
| 30 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |