Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 2 | But we still went on enjoying ourselves immensely for the officers handed us chocolates and were very kind . |
| 3 | We also found ourselves together in the middle of the LA riots — two days of mayhem without a cop in sight — so I guess that brought us closer together ! |
| 4 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 5 | Peach alone was in the house , having let himself in through the cat flap Stephen had fixed into the lower panel of the back door . |
| 6 | He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest . |
| 7 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 8 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 9 | He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them . |
| 10 | He had no desire to defeat boredom by provoking political excitement and keeping himself constantly at a stretch . |
| 11 | But then he , himself , had never concerned himself greatly with the case of Michael Holly . |
| 12 | He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position . |
| 13 | The Emperor , who had set out to find a partner in a European congress found himself instead with an ally engaged in a European war . |
| 14 | It is a situation much worse than the one Smith found himself in before the game with FC Brugge two weeks ago and could involve some drastic re-organisation . |
| 15 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 16 | But as the most famous boxer in the modern history of the game , Tyson found himself back in an environment he hoped he had turned his back on for ever . |
| 17 | As a result of all this , Baldwin found himself back in the Caxton Hall by 30 October . |
| 18 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 19 | The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition . |
| 20 | However , with record companies realising the appeal and financial benefits of bands like Sabbath having a line-up as close to the original as possible , Neil found himself out in the cold after Geezer Butler was reunited with his former partners . |
| 21 | He is such a lucid writer — and although he defends himself ably against the charge of superficiality ( which has been levelled since I was a student ) the breadth of his scholarship is so immense that the defence seems unnecessary . |
| 22 | And the Quixote himself sounds too light , and lacks that dominating nobility of expression that allows him to impose himself suddenly on a scene hitherto occupied almost exclusively by the Boy and the orchestra . |
| 23 | He 's not naturally aggressive — he 's not a friend of John Major 's for nothing — and he 's not nasty enough ; he 's been trying , no doubt psyching himself up in the mirror in the mornings — ‘ I will be beastly to them ! |
| 24 | He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air . |
| 25 | He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box . |
| 26 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 27 | In the first called Ascot , Nielsen disguises himself cunningly in a hat that would have probably made Gertrude Shilling turn pale . |
| 28 | He has committed himself definitely to a belief . |
| 29 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 30 | It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 . |