Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most I 'd allowed myself to see of the inside of that room during his three months at Sleet was himself half naked ruled into a margin of light . |
| 2 | I wondered whether it was because neither of them had stirred herself to go through the contortions attendant upon attracting men , but it was n't that . |
| 3 | ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder . |
| 4 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 5 | Although the " offices " might be peripatetic , going outside Rome with the pope , and although the pope might still play a dominant personal part , only a total reversal of policy — an annihilation of the authority the papacy had set itself to achieve during the previous 150 years — could have stemmed the march towards authority and central administrative offices . |
| 6 | She had to force herself to speak through the tightness in her throat . |
| 7 | Ten thousand years earlier the Second Empire had fought itself to collapse against a race of genetically altered super-beings . |
| 8 | After much deliberation and in great sorrow , the family of Don Antonio Beatillo , learned laureate and doctor , glory of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Naples , have resolved themselves to appeal against the last will and testament of their beloved and revered father , made in January last year , as being composed by the deceased when not in his right mind . ’ |
| 9 | A few very large and affluent City firms have adapted themselves to act as the agents and advisers of commerce and industry ; they have modern offices with every aid and convenience , and the partners specialise intensively . |
| 10 | I have a list here of people in my particular part of the profession who have pledged themselves to assist with the great drive forward for the seventy fifth anniversary . |
| 11 | The man of pseudo-faith will fight for his verbal creed but flatly refuse to allow himself to get into the predicament where his future must depend on that creed being true . |
| 12 | Trends have since changed , however , and Mudhoney have forced themselves to jump on the major label bandwagon , if only to survive . |
| 13 | It is also remarkable how few of those Willses have allowed themselves to rest upon the laurels of their past benevolences , and how many have kept alive their sense of public duty and obligation in the spirit of Goethe 's awesome admonition , ‘ That which thy fathers have bequeathed thee , earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it . ’ |