Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Joe returned the warm plates of food to the table , and Dolly helped herself to the mint sauce . |
| 32 | Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals . |
| 33 | Susan told herself that she must keep calm , must n't let nerves and muscles knot themselves into the familiar ache of worry . |
| 34 | They would need clothing and shelter for the extremes of weather , and weaponry to protect themselves from the wild animals and hostile tribes which roamed the desolate regions they were to visit . |
| 35 | We finished our drinks and Siegfried immersed himself in the Veterinary Record as savoury smells began to issue from the kitchen . |
| 36 | Kathleen swallowed a lump in her throat , Ben coughed discreetly and Jack busied himself at the X-ray box . |
| 37 | Although both James and Miller concern themselves with the effects of attaching verbal responses to the cues to be discriminated , there is no reason to restrict the analysis they offer to such responses . |
| 38 | Releasing the cannon from stowage and moving it forward was reminiscent of preparing a man o'war with the weapon 's black length extending well aft and Tommie bracing himself against the instrument bulkhead . |
| 39 | In their horizontal distribution plants often follow soil patterning ( p. 77 ) , mosses , lichens and angiosperms aligning themselves along the cracks between polygons , with crustose lichens occupying the centres . |
| 40 | Tiny natives in their feathered headdresses and skirts besported themselves on the water 's edge , far more ostentatiously than Kit knew them to do . |
| 41 | A band played and onlookers waved and cheered as men , women and children wedged themselves into the tub carriages and settled down for a good day out . |
| 42 | Whereas in Egypt the pharaoh symbolized the triumph of an invincible divine order over the forces of chaos , in Mesopotamia kingship represented the struggle of a human order with all its anxieties and hazards to integrate itself with the universe . |
| 43 | Here the old men and women deposited themselves about the room . |
| 44 | When the introductions were complete , the Exec Director , the DDA , the DDI , Sorge and Nowak settled themselves round the small conference table . |
| 45 | Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal . |
| 46 | It was bad enough having to admit that the APT train project was a dead duck , but BR shot itself in the foot and provided the cynical national media with a field day by selling off some of the vehicles to a Sheffield scrapyard . |
| 47 | But scientists reconciled themselves to the fact that the answers to such questions would never be known with certainty since the fish had obviously become extinct long ago . |
| 48 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 49 | Inside the kitchen , while Carrie busied herself at the range , Seb hovered behind her , wanting to touch her , but not daring to , in case she objected . |
| 50 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 51 | Wycliffe lazed in his chair , while Helen lost herself in the zany twilight world of Iris Murdoch . |
| 52 | Since Cox confined herself to the truly great , her sample — unlike , say , Ellis ' and Bowerman 's — naturally contained the names of many individuals whom others have quoted as evidence for the connection between creativity and psychosis ; including , incidentally , one ( Cowper ) who appears in this book . |
| 53 | On the basis of the principle of identity on the other hand , no subjection of nature can take place , since man identifies himself with the processes of nature . |
| 54 | Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be . |
| 55 | Wycliffe and Curtis sat in the stern while Smith placed himself in the lee of the fo'c'sle on a little tip-up seat by the wheel . |
| 56 | Though the latter was at this time a much celebrated amateur artist he was surprised , on arriving , when Minton detached himself from the crowd he was talking with in order to cross the room and greet Cornish by name . |
| 57 | When Strawalde freed himself of the constraints of narrative painting he became the father of sensuous abstract art in the DDR and now , in his sixties , is finally receiving the international recognition which was denied him before the Wall came down . |
| 58 | When Arafat satisfied himself of the identity of the three Palestinians responsible , they were sent down to Tyre ‘ in disgrace ’ . |
| 59 | Isabel asked herself as fitzAlan swung himself into the saddle behind her . |
| 60 | It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball . |