Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view . |
| 2 | On Oct. 25 the two main opposition groups , the DCR and the NSF , expressed their support for a DNSF minority government on condition that it committed itself to " the evolution of Romania towards democracy … and the pursuit of economic reform " . |
| 3 | But rugby maverick , 34-year-old Tim Wilby , now guesting with his eighth club and who describes himself in rugby 's who 's who as a ‘ socialite ’ , lends his distinctive skills and experience to the pack . |
| 4 | He kissed her on the mouth and she tasted herself on his lips . |
| 5 | After lunch , Bernice and I armed ourselves with black plastic dustbin liners and we made a concerted attack on Billy 's room . |
| 6 | I have to say though that with the terms on which we 've gone into the European Monetary System , a six per cent fluctuation either way , which as I said means from two seventy seven deutschmarks up to three thirteen ; there 's quite a lot of risk there for an exporter if he prices himself in deutschmarks and he gets it wrong . |
| 7 | I did not usurp power but I did greatly broaden the use of executive power , in other words this is the modesty part I acted for the public welfare , I acted for the common wellbeing of all our people whenever and in whatever manner was necessary unless prevented by direct constitutional or legislative prohibition Roosevelt suggested that the president subject only to the people of the United States and he identified himself with Andrew Jackson and with Abraham Lincoln . |
| 8 | He hated the car and he hated himself in it ; he hated what it could do to him and what it had done to him . |
| 9 | ‘ They are a big , heavy side and they pride themselves on having rugged forwards , ’ said Moore . |
| 10 | There followed a period of uncertainty until it found itself with new occupants Savory and Sons . |
| 11 | Her feet kept on blundering along through the darkness and a stitch stabbed at her side but she blinded herself to exhaustion and ran . |
| 12 | Er mainly the proposal and then everybody came back on the sixth which is quite a long break in Christmas but we do need that break till we organize ourselves after Christmas |
| 13 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 14 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 15 | But to begin with this assumption is to by-pass , rather than explain , the mystery of perception as it presents itself to us if we assume that perception occurs because the perceived object impinges directly or indirectly upon the nervous system . |
| 16 | The words are almost worth committing to memory to serve as a warning light when you find yourself in danger of making use of a similar situation . |
| 17 | Nathan was seated in the opposite corner , one hand easy on the wheel as he helped himself from the plate . |
| 18 | Ace unfastened her safety harness and clutched the sides of her shaking couch as she pulled herself into a sitting position . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope Wilmot can handle this , ’ said Holly anticipating the lawyer 's reproach when she explained herself to him . |
| 20 | By way of illustration , let us take an example from the development of Newton 's theory that we have considered several times before , and consider the situation that confronted Leverrier and Adams when they addressed themselves to the troublesome orbit of the planet Uranus . |
| 21 | ‘ Could n't you see the dog did n't have friendship in mind when he hurled himself at you ? ’ |
| 22 | Grasping her small suitcase in one hand , Gina followed the sign , drawing up with a soft exclamation of pleasure as she found herself in an oblong courtyard surrounded on two sides by what was obviously her hotel , a tall building of nineteenth-century architecture , its red-tiled roof gabled and decorated with iron curlicues , its many-paned white-framed windows set in mellowed red brick reflecting the pale northern sunshine . |
| 23 | Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen . |
| 24 | If there are difficulties in claiming that ahi sā is the right way in all circumstances and that the way of violence can never lead to Truth , there are similar difficulties in assuming that no violation of moral duty is involved in the practice of satyāgraha , or that it is only through the practice of satyāgraha that we show ourselves to be informed by the spirit of Truth and non-violence . |
| 25 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 26 | In the case of Letitia , who had married an Irish baronet , Sir Thomas Wyse , her refusal to accept the Emperor 's decision that she confine herself to being Lady Wyse , dropping all imperial pretensions by calling herself Bonaparte Wyse , led to her being expelled from France . |
| 27 | Recording a verdict that he killed himself by an overdose Liverpool coroner Roy Barter said : ‘ He had been complaining of anxiety and obviously felt vulnerable before Christmas . ’ |
| 28 | How all those immigrants and children of immigrants , that the Statue of Liberty , means a great deal to those Americans who whose parents or who came themselves from another country . |
| 29 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 30 | It is at his feet that we throw ourselves like the bound figures which form the pedestal of this statue ( one captive looks upward with adoring eyes ) . |