Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan , Bert and I were to secrete ourselves behind the curtains along with Aspel , who was to demonstrate the trick with the help of his three ‘ assistants ’ . |
| 2 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 3 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 4 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |
| 5 | You were congratulating yourselves on the fact earlier , I know . ’ |
| 6 | Mind you , she was starving herself to the point of endangering her life and had to be hospitalized , but er oh no , her hormon her hormon well her hormonal changes went into reverse , they absolutely did . |
| 7 | She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road . |
| 8 | Suffragette Emily Davidson , who was to throw herself under the King 's horse at the Derby in 1913 , hid there during the census of 1911 , to protest for Women 's Rights . |
| 9 | On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep ! |
| 10 | Our terms of reference made it clear that we were to concern ourselves with the English curriculum for all pupils , whatever their mother tongue . |
| 11 | From the other side of the room , from the shadows of the wood-store where they had entered , something was dragging itself across the floor towards them … |
| 12 | He urged them to recognize that by not understanding the thought of India they were depriving themselves of the opportunity of serving India . |
| 13 | Shouts and curses echoed across the vault , and then they were hurling themselves down the steps . |
| 14 | Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region , possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure . |
| 15 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 16 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 17 | It was sunning itself on the path . |
| 18 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 19 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 20 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 21 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 22 | Then I realized he was putting himself into the part . |
| 23 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |
| 24 | He was losing himself in the grey surf of her eyes , his heart threatening to smother him with its frenzied pounding . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , Meacher was only acting : he was playing himself in the 1985 TV drama Edge of Darkness , which the BBC is repeating . |
| 26 | Both of us were giving ourselves in the service of a third party . |