Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All down the corridor people were propping themselves up against the walls , or lying on the floor singly or in couples . |
| 2 | The riotous company had pushed their way into the church , where demented birds , disturbed for the first time in who knows how long , were battering themselves madly against the rafters . |
| 3 | THE BBC was bracing itself yesterday for a Government onslaught over its election coverage , which many ministers believe was biased against the Conservatives . |
| 4 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 5 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 6 | Hands was pulling himself up among the sails now , the knife between his teeth . |
| 7 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |
| 8 | The prey was distancing itself fast from the hunters ; the scent , as Myeloski knew , was still cold and getting colder . |
| 9 | KENNETH Branagh brings a lot of folk out in hives and I was scratching myself furiously at the thought of Ken , Em , Stephen , Tony , Hugh and Imelda — plus Em 's distinguished mum Phyllida Law as the faithful retainer — all holed up , chummy as you please , in a country house over the Yuletide hols , quaffing bubbly and beating their breasts . |
| 10 | It was not the decision to jump that was unreasonable , it was placing himself unnecessarily in a position where he might be confronted with such an emergency . |
| 11 | Sally was throwing herself all over the place and seemed to be enjoying it . |
| 12 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 13 | Miss Jarman was heaving herself out of the carriage with the help of the crabbed old driver ; marching up the steps and rapping on the front door shouting : |
| 14 | She was working herself back into a rage . |
| 15 | When Vera Czermak found that her husband had been unfaithful , her first thought was to throw herself out of the window of their third-floor flat in Prague and put an end to her misery . |