Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 12 aligned themselves with the opposition NLF to form the United Legislature Front , thereby reducing S. C. Jamir 's Congress ( I ) ministry to a minority . |
| 2 | The Marxist groups of the early 1890s devoted themselves to self-education , fierce polemics against the populists , and propaganda among circles of selected workers . |
| 3 | Within two hours some Allied troops had already reached their second objective , and by 07.00 Messines itself had fallen . |
| 4 | Day 30 Paid himself wages for the month of £320 calculated on the basis of £80 per week for a 40 hr week . |
| 5 | This offered the temptation to Government to use section 2 to protect itself against potentially damaging disclosures . |
| 6 | However , Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk had signed a decree on Dec. 12 appointing himself commander of the estimated 1,200,000 Soviet troops in Ukraine , and on Dec. 17 , following a vote in the republican Supreme Soviet , Azerbaijan 's President Ayaz Mutalibov declared himself Commander-in-Chief of the " non-strategic " military forces stationed in Azerbaijan . |
| 7 | Later the reigning champion , Paul Carter , beat the second-seeded former champion , Phil Kenyon , 10-8 , 9-7 , 9-1 to earn himself a semi-final today with another former champion , Bryan Beeson , whose magnificent recovery overcome the England international Chris Walker 8-10 , 8-10 , 9-5 , 9-0 , 9-7 . |
| 8 | 2 Set yourself a standard for everything you do today and from tomorrow onwards . |
| 9 | The result was that on his arrival at Baden Napoleon III found himself surrounded by all the German rulers : the Kings of Württemberg , Bavaria , Saxony and Hanover , the Grand Dukes of Hesse-Darmstadt and Saxe-Weimar plus the Dukes of Nassau and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . |
| 10 | At no. 6 lived Anne Knight , a widow born in Horningsham , Wilts. , where , by coincidence , a number of Titfords had been baptised in the mid-17th century ; no. 8 contained the Tomlinson family , a hay salesman 's bookkeeper from Norwich ; George Childs at no. 10 described himself grandly as a ‘ Landscape Painter ’ , and at no. 14 a lady called Mary Archer was in business as a private lodging-house keeper , assisted by Eliza Wade , her 17-year-old servant from Stepney . |
| 11 | Encouraged initially by his father in the belief that the acquisition and mastery of the culture dispensed in the state educational system was a necessary prerequisite to self-advancement , and spurred on by the conviction that to avoid his father 's fate he must acquire the one element that his father lacked , Nizan proceeded systematically and relatively uncritically between 1917 and 1924 to immerse himself in bourgeois culture . |
| 12 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Binged and vomited four times 2–3 Keeping her diary regularly 4 Returned home and told her family about problems with eating 5 Stopped weighing herself so frequently ; binged and vomited three times 6 Ate breakfast for first time 7 Allowed herself to ask for support from friends 8–9 Binged and vomited once each week 10 Expressed her feelings of sadness in the group for the first time 11–12 Ate three regular meals per day ; binges much smaller 13 A week free from bingeing and vomiting 14 A week free from bingeing and vomiting |
| 13 | On 9 January 1227 Henry III declared himself to be of full age , and immediately began measures to reclaim the Forest rights of his crown . |
| 14 | You d find yourself copying him and his mannerisms . |
| 15 | In the 550's Chlothar himself was faced with the rebellion of his own son Chramn . |
| 16 | As a result of the Biarritz meeting it was clear to Bismarck that Napoleon III saw himself as ultimately acting as mediator in the event of such a conflict . |
| 17 | 4.8 DISTANCING YOURSELF FROM OTHER PEOPLE 'S TERMS |
| 18 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 19 | It is little compensation to know that no fewer than six earned themselves the VC ; myth has it that they were all won before breakfast . |
| 20 | In an historic decision to break with Moscow , the Lithuanian Communist Party has voted by more than 5-1 to declare itself an independent party . |
| 21 | All three made themselves available for the club committee . |
| 22 | They all three hunched themselves in the grass and nibbled , while the rain ran off their fur in streams . |
| 23 | She made three calls herself . |
| 24 | ‘ He laughed and said that nobody under ninety called himself that nowadays . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , there appears to be no way of choosing with any confidence amongst these dates : if 870 recommends itself on the grounds that there is relatively early authority for it , for example , the remarkable preciseness of Babinger 's unsupported date in 873 can not be ignored . |
| 26 | Even in northern England the urban unemployed could easily turn to work on nearby farms in the summer : the striking weavers of Padiham ( Lancashire ) in 1859 supported themselves by hay-making . |
| 27 | The evidence of Table 8.5 lends itself to a policy of a constant real dividend . |
| 28 | I wrote off to Time Out and in early February 1981 found myself surrounded by eight or nine other blind socialists discussing the formation of the Alternative Talking Newspapers Collective . |
| 29 | Beron on Dec. 4 described himself as victim of a plot by his political opponents , including erstwhile colleagues in the opposition , thereby fuelling rumours that Trenchev and other militant anti-socialists had retaliated against Beron for having taken the UDF into negotiations on a coalition government . |
| 30 | In the intervening years only one major English army crossed to France , in 1475 , when Edward IV let himself be bought off by a treaty and substantial cash payments . |