Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we arrive on tip-toe to the spot , whatever it was has either gone or revealed itself to be a log . |
| 2 | The experience of rehabilitation centres is that people who come to them having been conscientiously cheerful since the day of their loss , who have never wept or allowed themselves to enter fully into the pain of their loss , find it much more difficult to acquire new skills . |
| 3 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 4 | if he 'd loved or liked himself , |
| 5 | To all this , modern man has now added creatures from outer-space which can be grouped under the general category of UFOs ( Unidentified Flying Objects ) , some of which have reputedly landed and disguised themselves as human beings . |
| 6 | The following afternoon he struggled into the white loons , which he had washed and ironed himself . |
| 7 | Nick — you 've only managed to talk to Paul Simpson , I think everybody 's gone and hidden themselves . |
| 8 | And then he had watched two men leave the Tower and walk across towards the Stones , towards his Stones , and he had clambered down from his perch and hidden himself where they would not see him but where he could watch them . |
| 9 | Lennox also hit back at critics , who claim he should have avoided the dangerous Ruddock and hidden himself away for a world title shot , snapping : ‘ I know the British fight fans will respect me for going in against the best instead of facing an easy touch . |
| 10 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |
| 11 | ‘ Should be , should n't there ? ’ said Joe , who 'd put his new jersey on and given himself an expensive look . |
| 12 | Having started the design ball rolling and given himself some idea of cast requirements , Barry moved on to his foremost task that of constructing the camera script . |
| 13 | We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it . |
| 14 | She had learned as a girl and given herself a week 's holiday for a thirtieth birthday present . |
| 15 | Yeah and she 's totally focused , she 's er , I think she 's got two children erm her husbands works , she 's got two children she 's brought up and developed herself to be a branch manager or assistant branch manager er she 's got a degree h now do n't listen to this Lorraine , who it said mid thirties |
| 16 | You see , Toscanini was not a bad man ; he was so musically dedicated and disciplined himself that he simply could n't understand that some people can play a false note or play out of time . |
| 17 | And th I 'm sure every one of you have been in that situation where somebody 's suddenly popped out and committed themself to an overtake and they 've got nowhere to go at all . |
| 18 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 19 | However , the great Wallaby no.8 , Tim Gavin , after missing the World Cup — and being sorely missed there — has recovered and made himself available for selection . |
| 20 | We took Roydale and Fringe from the lads and when Tremayne had driven off and positioned himself on his hillock we started together up the all-weather gallop , going the fastest I 'd been ever . |
| 21 | Sometimes she 'd turn on her heel , snarling , and lunge at a dog that had gradually edged over and positioned itself expectantly behind her . |
| 22 | Apart from what we had sown and grown ourselves , there was the bounty of the fields and hedgerows . |
| 23 | He describes the case of Mutang'ang'i one of the leading informals who at that time made foreguards for bicycles , bicycle stands and cutting machines using a series of hand-built metalworking machines which he had designed and built himself . |
| 24 | Marsh went away and was not silly for he came back with a micro-testing machine which worked , which he had designed and built himself . |
| 25 | We got to hear about this " mad American " who had designed and built himself a magnificent villa in an almost inaccessible spot on the side of the mountain . |
| 26 | She is never entirely comfortable until she has surveyed those before her , put them mentally in their places and seen herself rise to the top in doing so . |
| 27 | Along with a selection from a list including women , animals , madmen , foreigners , slaves , patients and imbeciles , children have served in that great class of beings , the ‘ not-men ’ , in contrast with which male philosophers have defined and valued themselves . |
| 28 | By the time he had rallied and got himself together and was thinking of things to say to the police it was too late and they were heading north . |
| 29 | It is ironic that , after the National majority had been safely won , and shown itself , as might have been predicted , protectionist , Snowden reverted to the role of stubborn free trader , and gave currency to the view of MacDonald as a feeble halfwit , without principles or dignity , Yet MacDonald , although no doctrinaire free trader , had fought harder to reach a formula that the Liberals , Snowden 's free trade allies , could accept than Snowden himself had done . |
| 30 | Oxford , the scholarship , would then have been the defining influence , become the place in which he could have planted his flag and redrawn himself . |