Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Friar was bewildered by his loss and could not bring himself to think clearly about the disaster . |
| 2 | Unless the Labour leadership recognises publicly that some form of Scottish parliament must come first on its political agenda and unless it can bring itself to co-operate enthusiastically with the SNP and Liberal parties to achieve this , nothing will continue to happen . |
| 3 | He could see himself floundering across in the moonlight , exposed , a struggling dark blot against the shining whiteness . |
| 4 | They could n't be allowed to do this , because they were still attached to the creance and might get themselves caught up round the perch . |
| 5 | And when we watch these films again , fifteen years later , how often do we find ourselves drawn back to the world in which we first saw them ? |
| 6 | To the extent that these may appear antithetical to modernism , not only in practice but also in theory , then we may find ourselves running up against the limits of our modernist frameworks of understanding . |
| 7 | The adventure takes place in our world ( Earth , that is ) and Luigi can find himself transported all over the world . |
| 8 | Major , however , may find himself jumping out of the frying pan into the fire . |
| 9 | She can find herself working exclusively with the obvious problem students . |
| 10 | First , and hardest , by making sure that as Poland and Hungary wriggle free from the East they do not find themselves blocked off from the West . |
| 11 | Now power and ownership have drifted ever further offshore , and walkers and birdwatchers just up for the day from Clydeside can find themselves fenced out of the moor by the multinational grouse-shooting and deer-stalking syndicates . |
| 12 | Walkers would find themselves diving out of the way on paths , escaping from runaway mountain bikes careering towards them on a mission to deposit their riders in a ditch . |