Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 2 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 3 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 4 | The first argument to scotch is that Britain has committed itself over the years to accepting the single currency and the central bank . |
| 5 | In 1867 Bagehot may have been able to write that ‘ a republic has insinuated itself beneath the folds of a Monarchy ’ ( 1965/1867 : 94 ) . |
| 6 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 7 | He has armed himself with the munitions of modernity , not only with ‘ conventional arms ’ , but also with an arsenal of nuclear , biological and chemical weapons . |
| 8 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 9 | Adeva needs to extricate herself from the hands of Smack Productions , hardly the dynamic force in garage music they once looked like they 'd become , in order to capitalise on what is still a growing surge of goodwill in America . |
| 10 | Over the last hundred years the proletariat has schooled itself in the pretensions of the bourgeoisie ; while the bourgeoisie , less confident of its ascendancy , has become more sly and deceitful . |
| 11 | He 's a good motivator , has endeared himself to the players and if they 're on your side as a manager you 've got at least a fighting chance . |
| 12 | Leeds captain Gary McAllister has pledged himself to the champions . |
| 13 | As we see when we examine the Spycatcher cases , in the area of civil liberties the courts seem to have come to regard themselves as the partners of the executive , tackling difficult problems together , rather than as a separate , autonomous , and sometimes necessarily antagonistic branch of government . |
| 14 | In practice this means that we do n't need to concern ourselves with the contents of such data files ; they 're not for human consumption without previous digestion by a computer . |
| 15 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 16 | Later SF , in its " New Wave " ( 1960s and 1970s ) and " Cyberpunk " ( 1980s and 1990s ) manifestations , has become more " invisible " and " difficult " , and has extended itself beyond the boundaries of the genre . |
| 17 | But it 's not all play for Jon , because he now has to drag himself off the podiums to do the warm-up spot behind the decks . |
| 18 | It heralded the end of the session , as Danny 's mood seemed to transmit itself to the others and they too became restless . |
| 19 | Large multi product , multi site firms dominate the British economy in both manufacturing and the service sectors , and public sector concerns increasingly seek to organise themselves along the lines adopted by successful private sector corporations . |
| 20 | They are strongly moved to express themselves outside the confines of their lovely bodies , while , of course , conscious that a large part of their appeal lies just there . |
| 21 | And on occasion some groups would choose to submit themselves to the Russians as the lesser of two evils when called upon to supply tribute to a third party with whom they were not on good terms . |
| 22 | However , there is only so much you can do to protect yourself against the whims of the Almighty . |
| 23 | Indeed , most Tories sought to distance themselves from the actions of their own supporters amongst the rank and file . |
| 24 | Therefore , in order to avoid panic attacks , they stop placing themselves in the situations in which they had previously experienced these feelings . |
| 25 | After them the literary scene in Slovenia throughout the nineteenth century resembles that of many of the small nations of Europe struggling to free themselves from the shackles of the great multinational empires which straddled the continent from Finland to the Aegean . |
| 26 | Her hair , red snakes struggling to free themselves from the hairpins , was the only vital thing about her . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , BNL was ordered on March 11 to raise its US reserve deposits by $5,200,000 , in order to help cover itself against the liabilities incurred by some of its staff in the course of the affair . |
| 28 | Such a figure tends to replicate itself in the relationships and practices in which children engage in later life . |
| 29 | But even as she spoke she found herself wondering about the way she 'd reacted to his kisses ; if anyone should be well armed to protect themselves against the attractions of a man like Dane , she should . |
| 30 | Owen had been working for a consulting company in Washington before deciding to devote himself to the contras , sitting at North 's feet ; despite his deep immersion in murky affairs , he still took a wide-eyed view of the world in which he operated . |