Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [verb] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he suggested that Richards had been less than sporting , Martin-Jenkins found himself banned from the local airwaves and Public Enemy Number One in Barbados ; since he is renowned as a courteous , generous-spirited chap , it brought home to English fans just how fervently Richards is regarded in the Caribbean , although any English supporter who watched the incident on television would have been hard pushed to disagree with Martin-Jenkins 's assessment of it . |
| 2 | Remembering the visit to the cotton mill , on the other hand , I can see myself watching from the polished floor ; I am in the picture . |
| 3 | He cut and chopped and she felt herself detached from the rotten wood . |
| 4 | I had been walking towards a closed door , and by a sudden magic its impenetrable wood became glass , through which I saw myself coming from the other direction , the future . |
| 5 | More than that : he had himself sprung from the upper working class and naturally despised as unclean the lower working class : his life was made a misery by their proximity , and he longed for them to be evicted or murder each other in one of their not infrequent rows . |