Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however professional we may have considered ourselves as seamen , our administration never allowed us to forget that first and foremost we were customs officers . |
| 2 | Paula said that the man had hanged himself because his wife would not go back to him . |
| 3 | Paula said that the man had hanged himself because his wife would not go back to him . |
| 4 | He blushed to think of how shamelessly he 'd paraded himself when he 'd had Judith on his arm ; how he 'd joked that she loved him for his cleanliness , and for his taste in bidets . |
| 5 | While the rebels were in control of broadcasting facilities , former Supreme Soviet chair Sarafali Kenjayev , an ally of Nabiyev , claimed to have installed himself as President , and broadcast an appeal to non-Tajiks not to leave the republic , denouncing the " Islamic fundamentalism " of the current leadership . |
| 6 | As far as anybody knew , he 'd mangled himself while helping a friend with some car repairs . |
| 7 | John Browne , the sitting MP until parliament was dissolved , has nominated himself as ‘ Conservative ’ , and the Tories , chosen alternative Gerald Malone has entered the fray as the ‘ Conservative Party Candidate ’ . |
| 8 | In September 1991 it had effectively dissolved itself when new union structures were created after the failed coup [ see p. 38415 ] . |
| 9 | Furthermore , it can be used to decompose overall proportions , as shown in the previous section , and it can be decomposed itself when other variables are brought into the picture . |
| 10 | She 's really enjoyed herself because tipple . |
| 11 | A TRAGIC pensioner hanged herself because she could no longer cope with the pain of her illness , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 12 | At the same time , though , I can see Mother 's side of it , at least on this one point , for she has n't considered herself as being just a housekeeper all these years , she 's felt mistress of the place , and she 's going to miss it . ’ |
| 13 | But in his grey presence her larks had soon seemed shameful , and she had disciplined herself as though she were entering an order . |
| 14 | You will probably have to have a tetanus injection , particularly if you have wounded yourself while gardening . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps you should have concerned yourself as much about avoiding emotional involvement yourself as about protecting me , ’ she said , and her voice was still sharp . |
| 16 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 17 | I doubt whether a judge , either of the High Court or of the county court , would have regarded himself as qualified to make an assessment of so substantial a claim . |
| 18 | No doubt the right hon. Member for Yeovil , ( Mr. Ashdown ) would have regarded himself as semi-detached . |
| 19 | Her father , Stefano , who had listed himself as joint coach , is now once more directing her training on court , while Laurie Schuett , a trainer from the Palm Beach Sports Institute , Florida , has been drafted in to work on her fitness . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The last man in , John Bendall had already injured himself when we were fielding and he also came in to bat with a runner . |
| 22 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 23 | The solution : Roger Wickens ' death was murder , not suicide ; he was left-handed and could not have shot himself as described . |
| 24 | He 'd never seen himself as old . |
| 25 | In Belfast , artist Jack Pakenham has always seen himself as fitting into a nebulous category of people in a no-mans-land , watching the activities of the city but unable to find a true affinity on either side of the often physically invisible diving line . |
| 26 | United are unchanged … player coach Greg Downs has served his suspension but has named himself as sub … a man to watch is young Gareth Davies he 's been having trials with Liverpool and may have a future at Anfield … |
| 27 | And , finally , a party which had seen itself as being part of a process of international socialist revolution , linked with the Russian revolution of nineteen seventeen , becomes a party which is primarily a party of Chinese nationalism . |
| 28 | But it was a surprising and disturbing thought , all the same , and no sooner had it presented itself than he had another , even more surprising and disturbing . |
| 29 | They kept slipping away , as her father had already slipped away , with no more than a mumbled excuse , to jot down a line of verse that had presented itself while he stood in some abstraction . |
| 30 | In this context , Felicity ( Alice was still trying to banish the word ‘ squaw ’ from her mind ) Felicity gave off an impression of light and warmth , as if she had never presented herself as dark . |