Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Our life has arranged itself so perfectly . |
| 32 | She is not only asserting herself as an artist , she has painted herself with all the bloom and freshness of a young woman although she was in her mid sixties when it was made ! |
| 33 | Although Britain has marginalised itself by its recent actions , if it fails to ratify the Maastricht Treaty the markets will hedge against the whole EMS edifice collapsing and the perceived risk will create fresh currency pressures . |
| 34 | It has regarded itself solemnly , satirically , whimsically , respectfully . |
| 35 | In France , however , there also existed a very different tradition , that of the history of the sciences , a tradition in which Foucault has placed himself . |
| 36 | On the continuum of penal philosophy which stretches from the punitive to the reformative , the Nicaraguan penal system has placed itself on the far edge of reform . |
| 37 | And truly it was no longer , as I had once thought , a matter of a star courting success by adopting the affectations of a prima donna , but of a man who has given himself up to a trance . |
| 38 | In the political parlance of 1992 , I suppose it might be said that Mr Platt has given himself a double whammy . |
| 39 | ‘ He has given himself a hard race , ’ said Josh Gifford , but if he recovers quickly the seven-year-old will go for the H and T Walker Chase at Ascot next weekend . |
| 40 | The Word was made flesh in Jesus Christ ; God has given himself to be understood in our terms and on our level ; and even in these terms and on that level it is the reality of God that is given for us to understand . |
| 41 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 42 | An escaped prisoner who faces charges of disposing of the body of a Swindon man , has given himself up . |
| 43 | A civil servant by day he has given himself a mission : to show the rest of the world just what can be done in a glider . |
| 44 | A FRENCHWOMAN has given herself the ultimate facelift in an attempt to create the perfect features . |
| 45 | We asked her why she has given herself such an arduous task . |
| 46 | However , if one error is fatal , two can not be worse , so by causing a recombination element R has given itself an evens chance of survival , whereas without recombination it had none . |
| 47 | The product shows what can be done without formal specifications , however just how much of a lead the company has given itself is debatable : IBM said that its network node specifications will be published at the end of the month for public scrutiny . |
| 48 | The search for a new chief , to be led by Akers and managed by IBM 's board nominating and executive compensation committee , which is chaired by James Burke , a former chairman of Johnson & Johnson , will be conducted both within and outside the company , and IBM has given itself 90 days to complete the process . |
| 49 | This has led to me setting up a very enthusiastic and committed core group which has given itself five years to complete the assessment and documentation needs to cover the Region . |
| 50 | He has forgiven himself and others have forgiven him and he views life from a new angle , rebuilding it with a more solid base . |
| 51 | ‘ He is responsible for the sabotage on the Base and he has implicated himself by trying to escape , ’ Bishop said harshly . |
| 52 | Mark Wright , bitterly disappointed at being axed by England , has resigned himself to missing tomorrow 's Anfield battle with Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 53 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 54 | It has concerned itself not simply with financial concepts , such as ‘ cost per pupil ’ but also with outcomes , including in its 1986 report , examination successes , staying-on rates and ‘ sickness absence amongst teachers — a barometer of staff morale . ’ |
| 55 | In practice though , research within this framework has concerned itself with " patterns of linguistic behaviour " as made manifest , for example , through narrative or in interviews , rather than looking in detail at conversational encounters . |
| 56 | The tall , spire-like stems of this yellow-flowered plant are often seen growing wild in Britain and North America , though it has naturalized itself , and is not indigenous . |
| 57 | Despite the retirement of coaching team-mates Jim Telfer and Derrick Grand after the recent World Cup , Ian McGeechan has committed himself to a further term as Scotland 's principal coach . |
| 58 | Jonathan has committed himself to rising early enough to get in for work before 9.00am . |
| 59 | He has committed himself definitely to a belief . |
| 60 | He would have been a natural replacement for Blair , but in another cruel twist , Gallagher , a university student in Northampton , has committed himself to the English club this season and will not be available to Dungannon for the league . |