Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I talked about shooting ourselves in the foot and that 's another example . |
| 2 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |
| 3 | Most of them adapted by distancing themselves from their homes , from the attitudes and habits of their parents . |
| 4 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 5 | At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property . |
| 6 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 7 | His pursuer smiled grimly , and waited as many seconds as he dared before heaving himself over the wall with surprising agility . |
| 8 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 9 | I caught a glimpse of my assailant , of his ragged and ferocious face , as he paused before hurling himself at me . |