Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pn reflx] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Public Service Vehicles ( Conduct of Drivers , Conductors and Passengers ) Regulations makes it an offence for a person to ‘ use obscene and offensive language , or to conduct himself in a riotous or disorderly manner . ’ |
| 2 | Whilst most of us , for example , can cope with having the occasional murderous thought about people we love , or work with , there are other people for whom such thoughts constitute a profound assault on their self-worth , and who must , therefore , either suffer that sense of worthlessness or involve themselves in an intense effort to deny or rationalize the thought . |
| 3 | Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer . |
| 4 | Or imagine yourself in a peaceful place . |
| 5 | Bees hummed steadily through the yellow bird 's foot trefoil that wove itself in a tangled carpet over the sand . |
| 6 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 7 | For those who wish to escape the hustle and bustle and lose themselves in the peaceful Nottinghamshire countryside , the working farms of the Nottinghamshire Farm Tourism Group offer a taste of the rural tradition . |
| 8 | She wanted only to rid herself of the blocks Ewan had inflicted on her and lose herself in a new future . |
| 9 | I wandered into the wholesale office of a big tobacco factory , and found myself in a dark panelled Victorian world of snuff counters , old polished scales for weighing out ounces of baccy and a snug with settle chairs . |
| 10 | I awoke , and found myself in a cold hillside . |
| 11 | You drove down a slope to a depth of 50 or more feet , and found yourself in a spacious area which was brightly lit . |
| 12 | Blake moved from the Old Nag 's Head , through a courtyard , and found himself in a long alley . |
| 13 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 14 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 15 | They pushed through the door , and found themselves in a big general office . |
| 16 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 17 | She pushed open the only door , and found herself in a spacious but gloomy office . |
| 18 | She scuttled through the door and found herself in a long drawing-room choked with old-fashioned furniture . |
| 19 | Bernice followed him , and found herself in a square space behind the staircase . |
| 20 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 21 | Maura pushed her way through the adults and stationed herself in the front room next to the table piled high with food . |
| 22 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 23 | Hussa and the boy 's sister soon arrived from Al Ain and installed themselves in the adjoining bedrooms . |
| 24 | It spun around , hurling its axe , which whirred over the assassin 's head and buried itself in a luckless thief behind him . |
| 25 | It ricocheted off a bulkhead , impossibly loud in the confined space , and buried itself in the fleshy part of Terhune 's thigh . |
| 26 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 27 | Water , the original substance which God created when he made the world , represents change , and immersing oneself in a natural body of water is the only way of changing one 's spiritual identity . |
| 28 | They should be able to analyse arguments and assess their validity , and to express themselves in a clear , exact and literate way . |
| 29 | He saw Ratagan 's axe flash like a star and bury itself in a hairy snout , splintering black blood . |
| 30 | There was no other explanation ; she 'd gone and landed herself in the sole company of a madman . |