Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 2 | Pressing himself against the last wagon he peered around the side for any sign of the guards . |
| 3 | The accent then moved itself onto the first syllable ( ‘ ga rrage ’ ) , and now the pronunciation is sometimes changed to ‘ garridge ’ . |
| 4 | She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment . |
| 5 | She used the buses and wherever she found herself on the last bus at night , whether at her own home or at her son 's , she would stay for the night only to set off again early the following morning . |
| 6 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 7 | He was still staring at himself in the mirror , seeing himself for the first time as a man , not a boy . |
| 8 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
| 9 | Eventually Don grappled with the critical section , and with a quick windmill of arms and legs was up and establishing himself on the next stance . |
| 10 | It was squarely concluded that Hitler , through the over-estimation of his own strength and rejection of all overtures for peace from neutral states , ‘ bears himself in the last resort the blame for the retrograde development which has now set in ’ . |
| 11 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 12 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 13 | Clearly Graf was not amused by the experience as she quickly booked herself on the next flight home leaving her team-mates behind without telling them . |
| 14 | After all , if you have begun addressing yourself for the first time to such an issue you are more likely to be able to have the courage of your convictions at work in trying to tackle , for example , management by inertia . |
| 15 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 16 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 17 | ‘ No , no , ’ the Finnish detective said , shaking his head as if to rid himself of the last remnants of misunderstanding . |
| 18 | The conflict between the courts and trade unions showed itself in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth as an expression of class conflict . |
| 19 | Dana had not appeared for the promised fitting or for the rehearsal , excusing herself at the last minute because Roman had wanted her for alterations to one of the outfits she was to wear . |
| 20 | The fragment of the Quimper dish she had picked up from the dustpan on the kitchen floor that day when she and Thérèse had seen , when she saw , when the lady had shown herself for the second time . |
| 21 | There are peel-off labels for the long holiday dates , something with which you can amuse yourself on the next bank holiday . |
| 22 | Patients will often be your greatest ally when testing yourself for the first time . |
| 23 | I defended myself for the first time : I pushed him away . |
| 24 | But we still are left managing those people in ninety four , ninety five , as well as taking on board the new triangles , the one with the horizontal lines , where we 're going to get people presenting themselves for the first time , and requiring services . |
| 25 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
| 26 | Two children arranged themselves in the first carriage , Bradford grandchildren with their parents up from Bristol . |
| 27 | In searching for publications this will give a skewed result for those supervisors who always name themselves as the first author in multi-authored works . |
| 28 | We will be dealing with all of those existing clients in terms of reassessing both their care needs and their financial ability to contribute to whatever package of care they 're getting , as well as taking on board all the new ones who present themselves for the first time in nineteen ninety four , five . |
| 29 | Miss Honey said to the class , ‘ I think you 'd all better go out to the playground and amuse yourselves until the next lesson . ’ |
| 30 | Fifty people ( the other thirty had disengaged themselves at the first mention of Dickens ) were now taking tea in the gardens of the Albion Hotel under the shelter of parasols . |