Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Gabriel took his seat at the top of the pageant , hidden by a wooden cloud , Garvey robed himself down below in the Mason 's wedding robe , and Izzie emerged from nowhere to mend the tear in the shoulder-seam . |
| 2 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 3 | All the same , John Alexander 's piece on the Paris period would have made livelier and easier reading if he had not , like Richard Humphreys on the London years , limited himself so self-effacingly to the documentation , necessary though that is . |
| 4 | This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets . |
| 5 | No Church before committed itself so decisively to the rightness of modern biblical criticism and the freedom of biblical scholarship , while it continued to maintain the Bible and the faith of Easter as indispensable to the moral predicament of humanity and of its societies . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the Catholic church involved itself fully both in the important rites of passage , such as baptism , marriage , and the last rites , that marked an individual 's progress from the cradle to the grave , and also in the annual round of celebrations which marked out the changing seasons . |
| 7 | She let herself out softly by the family door , and made for the silver glimmer of water in haste . |
| 8 | She let herself down gingerly into the hot water , gritting her teeth as various bruises stung as they came in contact with the heat . |
| 9 | Generally speaking , DCSLs advised on availability , choice and the mechanics of acquisition , down to and including the precise way in which order forms were to be completed , but in at least one case the DCSL involved herself more fully in the policy-making deliberations of the school library committee . |
| 10 | And the two policemen were ushered out of the office and found themselves once again in the hallway . |
| 11 | Emotions , and particularly conflicting emotions , are powerful in their ascendance over intellect and they may display themselves more accurately through the body than through words . |
| 12 | The settlements developed under the 1946 New Towns Act provide an extreme example of this process because of rapid initial growth and often sharp cessation of planned in-migration , leading to major age-structure imbalances which will continue to work themselves out well into the next century ( Champion , Clegg and Davies , 1977 ) . |
| 13 | Much to my disgust I then found myself as far from the sea as I could get — Heathrow Airport , which was just in its infancy but beginning to grow rapidly with the postwar boom in air travel . |
| 14 | ‘ I have spent time in Greece and Malta during those countries ’ General Elections and found the electorate involved themselves much more in the campaigns and really enjoyed the experience , ’ she said . |
| 15 | He lowered himself very carefully into the chair at the head of the table . |
| 16 | Then he flung himself neatly across to the bed , thinking agreeably of life with Fred and Daisy as he went , and another spring broke . |
| 17 | He yearned to consult his Tarot so as to connect himself however tenuously with the spirit of the Emperor . |
| 18 | People who apologize always put themselves so soundly in the right . |
| 19 | Now imagine yourself once again in the room you love . |
| 20 | Such failures of perception reveal themselves most acrimoniously in the issue of intellectual property rights . |
| 21 | Had it not been for one other factor , it seems likely that the combined pressures upon English both from inside and outside the discipline might well have caused it to accommodate itself more directly to the service of " vocationalism " , and " social responsibility " , and thus the needs of interdisciplinary and applied work . |
| 22 | Parliament yesterday confounded widespread predictions that it would wind itself up ahead of the Warsaw Pact 's first free elections scheduled for the spring . |
| 23 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
| 24 | And lest there be any misunderstanding as to the intensity of the attachment Lugard had in mind , it may be noted that his thinking revealed itself quite clearly on the subject of loyalty when he wrote of military matters and the secret of command . |
| 25 | He threw himself almost sideways through the gap , rolling across the ground as much to put out the fire that was burning him as to lessen the momentum of the fall . |
| 26 | Pumlumon seemed to have got himself quite well into the enchantment now ; he was looking much less worried than he had looked ten minutes earlier . |
| 27 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 28 | And hang itself again just under the sun |
| 29 | This has shown itself most vividly in the miserable business of Macedonia . |
| 30 | Although she 'd helped herself only sparingly from the selection ranging from herring in various preparations through varieties of other seafood to choices of pâtés and cuts of prime meat accompanied by several types of bread and salads , she 'd found the meal delicious and satisfying . |