Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 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 !
3 We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall .
8 He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them .
9 He had no desire to defeat boredom by provoking political excitement and keeping himself constantly at a stretch .
10 But then he , himself , had never concerned himself greatly with the case of Michael Holly .
11 He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 ?
15 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 .
16 A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 !
22 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 .
23 He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box .
24 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 .
25 In the first called Ascot , Nielsen disguises himself cunningly in a hat that would have probably made Gertrude Shilling turn pale .
26 He has committed himself definitely to a belief .
27 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 .
28 As the ethereal strains of Ravel stole through the room , Penry let himself down on the sofa , eyes closed .
29 Seb let himself out through the gate and Carrie was half-way back to the house when his soft call brought her to a halt .
30 He listened before he let himself out of the cellar , but there still seemed to be nobody around ; Reynolds felt gritty and smeared , at an unhappy disadvantage if he should have to lie his way out of an embarrassing situation .
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