Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pn reflx] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a founder of the PLO , and since becoming chairman in 1969 he has involved himself tirelessly in every aspect of Palestinian affairs . |
| 2 | After having established themselves powerfully in the ‘ bush ’ market , DHC decided that a larger machine would also find a market . |
| 3 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 4 | They had found Montparnasse and had installed themselves unwittingly in the brothel , the Hôtel Select , making friends also with the girls who haunted the nearby Café Ambiance . |
| 5 | In July 1890 , two years after writing this , Van Gogh had shot himself inefficiently in the groin , and had died slowly . |
| 6 | She had witnessed the on-off charm for herself when he had thought himself alone in the Feathers ' coffee-room . |
| 7 | By the time I had reached Moscow I had exhausted myself physically in a purely sensual relationship with my Leningrad guide , Natasha . |
| 8 | ‘ That was an accident , ’ Aunt Emily said firmly , ‘ after you had put yourself considerably in the wrong by trespassing . ’ |
| 9 | This state she spontaneously pictured as if she had become small , about the size of a jar of marmalade ( this image appeared with a kind of authority ) and had put herself away in a small square recess in a wall , just large enough to hold her . |
| 10 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |