Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |
| 2 | In this respect my work differentiates itself from the work of the Minimalists . |
| 3 | My body gets itself into a state of refusal . |
| 4 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite the fact that my players ran themselves into the ground . |
| 5 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground . |
| 6 | Their enemies equipped themselves in the same fashion . |
| 7 | But again , she 's making good eye contact , both of them only let their eyes flick down to their notes to remind themselves of the next point they want to make . |
| 8 | At last they were all free and she pushed the material impatiently aside , her fingers losing themselves in the gloriously thick mat of dark curling hair on his powerful chest . |
| 9 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've seen them — women like that monstrous Gabriela — push their husbands to ingratiate themselves with the Leader 's henchmen here , I 've seen the feasts they 've laid — like traps — very effective traps — those men , they 're nothing but walking bellies with fists-they grab , hit , grab , swallow , hit , the scum , I would n't lower myself to share a table with them . |
| 11 | His predecessor , Centwine , abdicated on his conversion to enter a monastery , but of the details of the process by which Caedwalla established himself over the western Saxons nothing is known . |
| 12 | As part of their attempt to rid themselves of a growing hooligan problem , the clubs agreed on Wednesday to begin converting their grounds into all-seat stadiums and to petition the government for grant aid . |
| 13 | As part of their attempt to rid themselves of a growing hooligan problem , the clubs agreed on Wednesday to begin converting their grounds into all-seat stadiums and to petition the government for grant aid . |
| 14 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 15 | A policy of legality and the maintenance of public order was officially adopted by the BUF in its attempt to portray itself as a responsible organization . |
| 16 | The NSF had declared in January its intention to constitute itself as a political party , reversing an earlier decision . |
| 17 | Accordingly , while congratulating the Association on its endeavours , may I make a plea to the members of its Committee to restrain themselves from the political tactic of eyewash and puff and to conduct themselves , so far as the Law Society are concerned , in a straightforward , honest and co-operative manner ? |
| 18 | Industry-level bargaining would seem to have corresponded most closely to the preferences of employers and their capacity to organise themselves with a view to protecting market shares and strengthening their own bargaining power . |
| 19 | As to article 52 , the refusal to register as British fishing vessels boats owned , chartered , managed or operated by nationals of other member states , whether natural or legal persons , deprived those nationals of their right to establish themselves in the United Kingdom in order to pursue their fishing activities under the same conditions as nationals of the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | The President of the National Assembly and former Prime Minister , Laurent Fabius , has spoken of ‘ the general crisis of politics … the malaise of a society which has lost all its landmarks translates itself into a suspicion of political parties and into a rise of anti-parliamentarianism ’ . |
| 21 | She decided she would say it , noticed how her body rearranged itself for the tone that would come . |
| 22 | The Careys were also in attendance : Lady Carey glowered whilst her husband busied himself at the far end of the room , totally ignoring our existence . |
| 23 | Megan claimed to be standing on her own two feet , but J. Graham Jones , of Aberystwyth , says LG confided to her that he had caused a hint to be given , if her opponent behaved himself after the vote , that he would help him find a seat to fight . |
| 24 | He looked like a figure gazing into the mouth of hell , and she shook her head to rid herself of the image . |
| 25 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |
| 26 | Both she and Bernard were continually taken aback by the way their staff threw themselves into the Ashley enterprise — although they expected nothing less and , in different ways it was they who inspired their employees to rise above whatever talents they thought they could offer . |
| 27 | Sandra had virtually given up her career to devote herself to the task of keeping house and raising a family , though , in that respect , the relationship did not mature as she had hoped . |
| 28 | Think of the very different way in which people express themselves in a bedtime story , a lecture , in giving directions , making announcements , making an after-dinner speech . |
| 29 | The year following the final Soviet withdrawal of troops was marked by the collapse of the mujaheddin as a real military threat to the Kabul government , and by the failure of its government to present itself as a viable political alternative . |
| 30 | They believed that as soon as a person died their spirit attached itself to the family left behind . |