Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [noun] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Mia Bardolet , who was responsible for the first ever victory of Ford 's Escort Cosworth , found himself without a contract this year and Opel snapped him up .
2 I do n't think I can describe myself as a Marxist any more .
3 Accounts also tell how he used to lock himself in the church all night .
4 Otto Preminger — or Otto the Ogre — was another Viennese-born film director who established himself as a man many loved to hate .
5 On that night he watched himself in the mirror all night , and for the very first time he was the one who asked for things and who made things happen in the order that he wanted them to .
6 We 're speaking for working people in this country and we are a reliable indicator of the feelings , the dreams , the hopes of working people right across the country and any party that attempts to divorce itself from an organization such as ours , that attempts to speak for working people will lose its way .
7 She could n't sleep , despite having walked herself into the ground that afternoon , among the sheep and the ferns and the wet grass .
8 The rebels then established themselves at a camp some 20 km from Moroni , calling for the resignation of Djohar and his Cabinet and of Capt. Azali Assoumani , commander of the FCD .
9 And they would force themselves to the front all the time .
10 Photographers also take advantage of the inability of persons to remain constantly vigilant , often introducing themselves into a situation many hours before they attempt to take pictures ( Greenhill et al.
11 He was badly shocked and in great pain but managed to steer himself towards a field half a mile from the parachute club at Brunton , Northumberland .
12 Did you see that ? he nearly shot himself in the butt that time did n't he ?
13 It was good to see and touch the Inca stones again ; to remind myself of the depth this city had : the dignity beyond the constant assault of the hustlers .
14 This time I patted myself on the back all the way to the hotel .
15 Unlike the runners or the cuistots , when carrying a wounded man the unhappy musiciens/ brancardiers could not fling themselves to the ground each time a shell screamed overhead .
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