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 | 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 . |
| 4 | You did the wise thing , calling a halt when you did , she told herself sharply for the umpteenth time . |
| 5 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
| 6 | He implants ideas , gives clues , prompts proposals , and avoids committing himself publicly until the last moment . |
| 7 | Here are a number of mill sites dating to the Domesday era ; the cloth industry firmly settled itself here by the 12–13th centuries . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Canary Wharf , the tallest building in Europe , fails to shape itself adequately at the fiftieth storey and is dull as a consequence . |
| 10 | A WEAK US economy reflected itself strongly at the second Museum of Flight Auction at Santa Monica on October 5 & 6 . |