Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September Leslie 's 5th Brigade found itself part of the 4th Indian Division , and it was with this famous fighting force that he was to spend about the next nine months . |
| 2 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 3 | He usually sleeps for a couple of days and then slowly builds himself up for the next trip . |
| 4 | Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’ |
| 5 | None of this was her affair , she told herself not for the first time . |
| 6 | It really would be very much more practical to have her hair cut , she told herself severely for the umpteenth time , but the simple truth was that she liked having her hair long , loved the feeling of the heavy silken strands on her skin . |
| 7 | You did the wise thing , calling a halt when you did , she told herself sharply for the umpteenth time . |
| 8 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 9 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 10 | There were seven of us sharing the place , the Carters ' eldest son and his girlfriend having invited themselves along at the last moment , and their movements were completely unpredictable . |
| 11 | He implants ideas , gives clues , prompts proposals , and avoids committing himself publicly until the last moment . |
| 12 | Here are a number of mill sites dating to the Domesday era ; the cloth industry firmly settled itself here by the 12–13th centuries . |
| 13 | Erm the economic development unit of the borough , Mr Allenby , should know more about it than me , but they have done studies of the firms in Harrogate that can be expected to seek relocation within the borough as they sort themselves out over the next five years , and erm their own calculations for the next five years is more than the county 's whole calculation for the next fifteen years , which suggested to us again that there was a problem about the understanding that the county had on the matter of relocations within Harrogate compared with what was going on locally . |
| 14 | Injured Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis has ruled himself out of the second round second leg leaving his side woefully short of striking cover as they attempt to recover a 3-1 first leg deficit . |
| 15 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |
| 16 | Baltic representatives , for instance , associated themselves closely at the 19th Party Conference with the call for ‘ regional khozraschet' or in practice for republican self-sufficiency . |
| 17 | An exhausted Anabelle ambled to the gate and squeezed herself under for the last time . |
| 18 | Canary Wharf , the tallest building in Europe , fails to shape itself adequately at the fiftieth storey and is dull as a consequence . |
| 19 | A WEAK US economy reflected itself strongly at the second Museum of Flight Auction at Santa Monica on October 5 & 6 . |