Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got myself elected onto the Students ' Council where I muddled through , never having read the agenda papers and often not knowing what on earth everyone else was talking about . |
| 2 | Said the communique De Benedetti sent out by facsimile about an hour after his meeting with the judges , which the paper said seemed to be written in his own hand : ‘ Several times , I resisted the vexations of the regime , in some occasions I resigned myself to accept them , but only when I found myself faced with the necessity of defending the survival of the company and the thousands of dependents and shareholders toward whom I felt a massive responsibility . |
| 3 | I fled to the Students ' Union where , within a very few days , I found myself co-opted onto the Students ' Council . |
| 4 | One horrible night I found myself crouched at the door , listening for sounds of pain which would have given me pleasure , sounds of pleasure that would have hurt . |
| 5 | I FIND MYSELF caught in the toils of having to give a personal explanation for why I ca n't write a personal explanation for the formation of my adult beliefs . |
| 6 | I felt myself propelled towards the stage . |
| 7 | In July of 1982 , during the Israeli siege of west Beirut , I had myself prowled through the archives to try and discover the political roots of the Lebanese Phalange , Israel 's latest ally in its war against the Palestinians . |
| 8 | I am ushered reverently into a cabin and pick up the quaint hand set , which has an additional round earpiece for clamping over the spare ear , so that I see myself reflected in the glass like a radio operator or a session singer . |
| 9 | It is so-called because of the compound fracture of the leg which Pott himself suffered as the result of an accident in 1756 . |
| 10 | Yeah I think you got yourself lost with the calculations |
| 11 | One 200-strong theatre audience who found themselves trapped in the chaos on Tuesday were given an impromptu hour-long concert by Tom Jones . |
| 12 | She found herself swept off the bed and across to the long sash window , then stood on her feet with Roman 's warmth supporting her from behind , his arms wrapped around her . |
| 13 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 14 | Unfortunately apart from some of the movies mentioned above , she found herself stuck in the '40s with the unwelcome label of Queen of the B's , because of her frequent roles in Charlie Chan , Mr Moto and Falcon Quickies . |
| 15 | In its revised form it has precisely the same aim : to provide a bridge between those who find themselves divided by the renewal movement . |
| 16 | This weekend that fear will be realised as she finds herself isolated from the boys who , as she has so often pointed out , mean everything to her . |
| 17 | Hilton addressed himself to the practical situation of his friend who felt himself torn by the demands of the active life impinging on his desire to pursue contemplation , and helps by showing that these two terms , so often used as opposites to refer to a manner of living , either as a professed religious or as a man of affairs , take their fundamental meaning from different inner conditions . |
| 18 | Dexter smiled to himself as he imagined his boss 's grimace when she saw herself described in the Mirror as ‘ Scotland Yard 's female supersleuth ’ . |
| 19 | Sometimes far into the evening she kept herself locked at the desk , writing , writing . |
| 20 | He cut and chopped and she felt herself detached from the rotten wood . |
| 21 | With what remained of her objective consciousness Louisa strove to tell herself that this encounter was not of her reality , not of her willing … but even as she struggled she felt herself drawn under the influence of a mind at once alien and familiar — a mind resolute to lacerate its own fine sensibility , and with a perverse , intellectual sang-froid . |
| 22 | Neither the servants nor the king were amused by Pecham 's decree ; nor indeed were some bishops who had themselves risen to the episcopate on a mounting tide of benefices with and without cure of souls , and who were even now rewarding their own diocesan officers with a plurality of cures . |
| 23 | However , although agencies take a lot of the work out of finding an employee , and can be particularly useful if interviewer(s) are part of a voluntary committee which has limited time to devote to the task of appointing new staff , they have the disadvantage that you are limited in your choice by the number of people who have themselves registered with the agency . |
| 24 | We make ourselves known in the village w erm you see we 've got the peace movement at the moment and last year er we always have put a wreath . |
| 25 | The press was too great and we found ourselves trapped by the crowd just in front a massive , black-timbered scaffold . |
| 26 | So too , if we consult the Report of Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , 1975 ( or almost any other year for that matter ) we find ourselves assailed within the space of only a few paragraphs with repeated references to The report was generous enough to remind us that the personal violence over which so much ink had been spilled amounted to less than 4 per cent of known serious crime . |
| 27 | Do they make themselves heard in the crowd as well ? |
| 28 | Users had to present their data in ways laid down by the DP department ; they found themselves bound by the DP department 's priorities rather than by their own ; and , in addition , they had to compete with colleagues for use of the computer 's facilities . |
| 29 | They found themselves sandwiched between the unhappy and unwilling Germans , and the aggressive , intolerant and uncomprehending Russians . |
| 30 | This is the date England had originally set aside for a friendly against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin but which both Robson and Jack Charlton agreed to abandon when they found themselves paired in the same World Cup group . |