Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The institutional , legal and procedural definition of convocation had not been clear in 1307 nor was it finally resolved by 1327 : the clergy were struggling to free themselves from the enveloping quicksand of parliament , the king 's high court , and to reach the firm ground of an autonomous clerical assembly , no part of the king 's court ( with all that that implied ) and free from the intimidating presence , or intrusion , of those royal councillors who were laymen . |
2 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
3 | As individual developments , both directions were destined to run themselves into the ground . |
4 | Chapman took over at Leeds at a time when professional footballers were beginning to assert themselves as an organized body of workers . |
5 | In 1850 she was noticed by the artist Walter Deverell , who asked her to sit for him and a group of young friends who were beginning to distinguish themselves as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . |
6 | A variety of other industries were also ruined by British policy : silk goods manufacturers , for example , were compelled to restrict themselves to the production of raw silk , while gun making was seriously affected by a restrictive licensing policy and other means ( Bagchi , 1982 , p. 82 ) . |
7 | Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint . |
8 | Muslim nationalists were encouraged to see themselves as the spearhead of the anti-colonial movement , and Lenin himself addressed their congress ( in November 1919 ) . |
9 | When taking a train journey women were advised to equip themselves with the largest hat-pin they could find and if travelling by night , or through a tunnel , they were to sit bolt upright , hat-pin clenched between the teeth in case of attack . |
10 | On Aug. 9 Iraq closed its borders to foreigners trying to leave Iraq or Kuwait ; on Aug. 12 Donald Croskery , a British businessman , was shot dead by Iraqi forces on the Kuwait-Saudi border ; and on Aug. 16 all US and British citizens in Kuwait were ordered to surrender themselves to the Iraqi authorities or face unspecified " difficulties " . |
11 | It had grounds for such fears , since it was struggling to legitimize itself as the Palestinian representative and did not wish this to be challenged by any independent local movement . |
12 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
13 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
14 | The hoverspeeder , its motors still idling , was attempting to wedge itself into the hole in the wall which Daak must have made with the vehicle 's front thrusters . |
15 | Doyle was beginning to fancy himself as a small-time connoisseur of Modern Alternative Art . |
16 | They alighted on Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who in the late 1970s was beginning to portray himself as a man of moderation who might be able to make himself useful to the West , not least by acting as a counter to now-revolutionary Iran . |
17 | In 1415 , Hus was summoned to defend himself at the Council of Constance , having been assured of a safe conduct by the emperor Sigismund . |
18 | Thereafter he became a missionary of heathen Africa , wrote a seminal alchemical text called the Clavicula , and was reputed to turn himself into a red cock when occasion demanded . |
19 | Not all found this easy ; in my own case , I was asked to imagine myself in a cave and paint what I saw ! |
20 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
21 | At the final moment he was forced to cast himself into the Realm of Chaos to avoid final and utter death . |
22 | Poor Mrs Sugden had her leg put in plaster , and was forced to bump herself down the stairs to get her husband 's meals — he had no intention of spoiling her . |
23 | The root of the problem lay in the fact that , having cut its links with the United States , Cuba ‘ was forced to graft itself onto a bloc which , apart from being totally different , was already afflicted with its own specific illnesses . |
24 | And that 's I was trying to put myself in the position of before . |
25 | ‘ Of course Eustace was trying to establish himself as a solicitor at that time . |
26 | He huddled up as if he was trying to roll himself into a ball . |
27 | In this connection the whole of the local Komsomol press was ordered to put itself under the leadership of the party guberniia committees . |
28 | It was late on Friday evening — Friday , May 9 , 1941 — and he was ordered to present himself at the office at ten past seven in the morning . |
29 | Significantly , however , this ritual was not allowed to take place within the sacred precincts : the animal was burned whole ‘ outside the camp ’ , its blood was not offered at the altar but burned along with the carcass , and the officiating priest was required to cleanse himself after the sacrifice . |