Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 9 | Now find yourself outside in the dark garden , concealed behind a tree . |
| 10 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 11 | Until he can hold himself safely in the correct positions without increasing his spasticity when he is lying down , sitting , standing , or walking , he has to be helped to move in every situation . |
| 12 | It was impossible to distance herself physically in the small room — doing so mentally was the next best thing . |
| 13 | She went and fetched out the folded garments for him , and went about her business at the clay oven outside while he stripped and dressed himself again in the good Welsh clothes that had been made for him . |
| 14 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |