Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |
| 2 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 3 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 4 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 5 | All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan 's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . |
| 6 | In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers , Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward . |
| 7 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 8 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 9 | Harry went slowly and cautiously through the gully , feeling his way at every step until his eyes had accustomed themselves to the darkness , and could judge distances and distinguish the shapes of the weathered planes of rock that leaned over him . |
| 10 | The laird who sought the politician 's aid had found himself in an embarrassing predicament when a brother had unexpectedly returned to the family estate after many years spent at sea . |
| 11 | Arafat had tried to keep his Fatah guerrillas out of the fighting , but when the Phalange and Chamounists laid siege to the Palestinian camps of Karantina and Tel al-Za'atar , the PLO had committed itself to the war on the side of the Muslims and leftists . |
| 12 | Brian Hall , safety and training officer at Redpath Offshore , said he found it difficult to explain why Mr Eaton had placed himself under the pipe . |
| 13 | The phrase ‘ Protocols-style ’ carries a critical rhetoric , suggesting that the authors wished to distance themselves from the traditions of the conspiracy theory . |
| 14 | Now what happened , and it was a good procedure because what happened was that if anyone say on a Friday had found himself in a difficult situation , we would then discuss it on the Monday afternoon , er bearing in mind that he had taken it to the foreman and had got no response from the foreman , we could discuss it on a Monday afternoon , the convenor and the secretary would deal with it the following day , and in all probability , without having recourse to take it any further , reply to the man that the matter had been resolved and , and to his liking . |
| 15 | By successfully conspiring to remove Mortimer and Isabella from power Edward had established himself in a position of unchallenged supremacy . |
| 16 | She began to get up but by now the man and the bear had moved themselves into the open area of the coach between the pairs of doors . |
| 17 | Ken had mortgaged himself to the hilt with the flat in Brunswick Gardens , Kensington and after one interminable row following another , he told his parents to leave the flat . |
| 18 | At the moment of crisis , in the hand-to-hand fighting at the gates of Taillebourg when the decision could have gone either way , Richard had thrown himself into the thick of the melee . |
| 19 | Nathalie Sarraute had never been prepared to accept his insistence on pure textuality , and both Robbe-Grillet and Claude Simon sought to distance themselves from the increasingly over-rigid application of his theories . |
| 20 | It heralded the end of the session , as Danny 's mood seemed to transmit itself to the others and they too became restless . |
| 21 | At the beginning of June the companies began marketing themselves as a ‘ total service ’ to corporate clients , a one-stop-shop for print buyers from desk top to finished brochure . |
| 22 | That was when Sharpe bothered to show himself at the Prince 's headquarters at all ; he evidently preferred to spend his days riding the French frontier which was a job that properly belonged to the pompous General Dornberg , which thought reminded the Prince that Dornberg 's noon report should have arrived . |
| 23 | As to conflict of interest , the judge held that the defendants had put themselves in a position where their self-interest in obtaining commission on both sales might ( not did ) conflict with their duty to the plaintiff . |
| 24 | By the end of the 1970s , with Norman Lindop having taken over the chairmanship from 1974 , the Committee had established itself as a unit which functioned in parallel with those for science and technology , arts and sciences , and research . |
| 25 | Lenin had been the effective leader in the United States of Soviet Russia but he died in January 1924 , leaving two possible successors , Trotsky and Stalin , but Stalin had established himself in the Communist hierarchy and Trotsky was subsequently expelled . |
| 26 | Scotland had re-established itself as an independent nation . |
| 27 | Visigothic architecture had established itself before the Moslem invasion and was flourishing from c. 450–720 . |
| 28 | It was not long after that evening there came the sad news that Herr Bremann had shot himself in a train between Hamburg and Berlin . |
| 29 | Hope had talked himself into a state of indignation . |
| 30 | The three Miss Lovelocks had seated themselves on the window-seat , their silvery heads nodding and trembling , and their glasses , as Ella was not unsurprised to see , quite empty . |