Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will confine ourselves here to the state-owned case , leaving regulation to chapter 5 . |
| 2 | We shall confine ourselves here to the statutory requirements which must be observed . |
| 3 | His spirit had not been broken ; rather he was afraid of tearing himself apart with the involuntary jerking of one side of his limbs in the opposite direction to the other . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is also the case that , in practice , social purpose Adult Education has frequently concerned itself exclusively with the small minority of politically active , leftist members of the working class , usually , though not always , via trade union education . |
| 6 | Between the subtle observations of the period of about 270–240 B.C. and the adulation of poems like that by Melinno — which , though undated , places itself naturally in the early second century — we have to recognize a gap . |
| 7 | At Universal , she found herself painfully opposite the eponymous talking mule in Francis Joins The Wacs ( 1954 ) and as the female lead in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops , ( 1955 ) but had delightful moments in Has Anybody Seen My Gal ? ( 1952 ) singing ‘ The Red Red Robin ’ while bobbing around doing the housework . |
| 8 | By this pact Japan ranged herself firmly against the European nations with colonies in East and Southeast Asia . |
| 9 | For the tribal stage , in particular , they base themselves only on the vaguest generalization as gathered probably from philosophical treatises . |
| 10 | We may expect new conventions governing syntactic combinations — in our example the Subject-Object-Verb complex — to establish themselves quickly in the evolving language of any group whose members are bright enough to tumble to the meanings of such innovations . |
| 11 | There were a great number of these at different points along the Straits , but there were three that found themselves right in the thick of things . |
| 12 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 13 | ‘ So I climbed into the back seat , ’ he recalled , ‘ stripped off the suit I was wearing and put on my pyjamas , thinking I could dry myself afterwards with the spare pair . |
| 14 | When he finally got on his feet , Roger seemed unduly keen , and I found myself unexpectedly on the defensive . |
| 15 | Governors need to inform themselves thoroughly about the current state of the school building before they accept responsibility for it . |
| 16 | This ascetic direction of Christianity exalted the celibate , both male and female , who abstained from both sex and reproduction and devoted themselves entirely to the coming new age that will transcend the corruptible world of birth and death . |
| 17 | But Clinton 's nationwide image as untrustworthy refuses to fade , while the insurgent Brown is enjoying himself hugely as the slash-and-burn anti-everybody candidate who knows he will never have to fulfil his outlandish promises . |
| 18 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 19 | An earlier hero , in The Black Prince ( 1973 ) , is a failed writer who creatively fulfils himself only in the enforced loneliness of a prison cell when he is convicted for a murder he has not committed . |
| 20 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 21 | Kirov did little actual business there , for he had deliberately priced himself well outside the common market . |
| 22 | The Prince had positioned himself just behind the six guns of the Dutch battery . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You did the wise thing , calling a halt when you did , she told herself sharply for the umpteenth time . |
| 25 | Along with the canteen , therefore , the parade room is a key location where , at the beginning of the day 's work , individuals start to immerse themselves again in the occupational culture of the station and adjust to the labour process . |
| 26 | The discourse of ‘ diagnosis ’ represents a coercive use of metaphor in that its aim is to replicate itself faithfully in the conceptual idiolect of all people . |
| 27 | If the law concerned itself instead with the good faith of the doctor , consent would be only one of several relevant criteria . |
| 28 | Henry VI gave them a court leet in 1451 , which concerned itself largely with the minor social offences common to any medieval town ; poor-quality weaving and leaving dead animals lying about the streets seem to have occurred fairly commonly . |
| 29 | Pulling himself away from the older man , he ran after Maisie , who was now somewhere out in the road . |
| 30 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |