Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 2 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 3 | Without realizing , I found myself between two groups of youths throwing bottles at each other . |
| 4 | Wandering on , I found myself among dreary council flats , improved by a figure of Joseph holding the Baby high on a wall . |
| 5 | My first experience with boys was not a great success but it was n't the last , and later I found myself in worse scrapes than on that first occasion . |
| 6 | I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields . |
| 7 | After a week of intensive treatment at Farnham Park my back was hurting more than ever , so I discharged myself without any hope of a cure . |
| 8 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 9 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 10 | I threw myself with apparent enthusiasm into a conversation Marietta and the solicitor were having about the difficulty of finding and keeping reliable cleaning ladies . |
| 11 | After lunch , Bernice and I armed ourselves with black plastic dustbin liners and we made a concerted attack on Billy 's room . |
| 12 | I locked myself for two days and nights in my room without food or water or sleep . |
| 13 | I availed myself of this service . |
| 14 | Last summer I really lived it up because I treated myself to some peaches . |
| 15 | I did n't do a lot of walkin' , except round the shops , and I treated meself to another 'ansom cab to bring me back . |
| 16 | I astonished myself with this realization . |
| 17 | It is an error to assume , as I did myself at one time , that theory necessarily exists in an ancillary and elucidatory relationship to criticism , which is in turn at the service of literature . |
| 18 | There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment . |
| 19 | As well as prompting a rise in trade , the existence of a new class which found itself with spare time and spare cash at its disposal also heralded an era of unprecedented artistic achievement . |
| 20 | Hence the new postulate in psychoanalytic theory : that there must be an underlying biological instinct which expressed itself in mental life as a compulsion to repeat unpleasant experiences . |
| 21 | Newspapers which confined themselves to demonstrable facts , and left readers to draw their own conclusions , were not sued . |
| 22 | The British Mesozoic Committee ( who concerned themselves with such matters ) therefore found it impossible to accept the stratotype concept as it is usually proclaimed on the continent . |
| 23 | Clearly there can be no simple answer to such a question , but we need to appreciate that , until the eighteenth century , the speculative moral philosophers who concerned themselves with such issues did not have to bother about the practical implications of their argument . |
| 24 | And more and more she met herself at this hour , too late to phone anyone , too weary to sleep . |
| 25 | The UK government just survives vote of confidence by one vote as opposition leader John Smith votes with Tories saying ‘ You got yourselves into this mess , I 'm not getting you out of it . ’ |
| 26 | Even those who prided themselves on liberal views found it hard not to score points off the Germans , including refugee Germans . |
| 27 | She got herself in big trouble ! |
| 28 | Ah , but who , she asked herself with sudden foreboding , is going to cure you of Penry Meredith Vaughan ? |
| 29 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |
| 30 | He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ? |