Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | while country areas were bracing themselves for the influx of tragic refugees or louse-infested slave labour , depending on the children 's luck . |
| 2 | While all you fairweather golfers were fattening yourselves for the spring sunshine , I was running 15 miles a week in an effort to gain the necessary fitness for a 27-tournament season . |
| 3 | Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror . |
| 4 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 5 | Yet Chapman saw that the future of English football ultimately depended on the young , and he was particularly concerned to win youngsters over to soccer and away from rugby , a concern heightened by the fact that his two sow , Ken and Bruce , were distinguishing themselves in the rugby code . |
| 6 | Both of us were giving ourselves in the service of a third party . |
| 7 | Off to one side , several men , still wearing their mail hauberks , were warming themselves before the fire . |
| 8 | Ironically , it ended just as the Giants were putting themselves into the play-off hunt with a 27–7 victory over the Green Bay Packers for their third straight win . |
| 9 | You were congratulating yourselves on the fact earlier , I know . ’ |
| 10 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 11 | He urged them to recognize that by not understanding the thought of India they were depriving themselves of the opportunity of serving India . |
| 12 | The thing to do , Caroline told herself , was lose herself in the beauty and lore of Rome , and she might have done that — if the guide had only let her . |
| 13 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 14 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 15 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 16 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 17 | Mind you , she was starving herself to the point of endangering her life and had to be hospitalized , but er oh no , her hormon her hormon well her hormonal changes went into reverse , they absolutely did . |
| 18 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 19 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 20 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 21 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 22 | Billie was fanning herself with the blanket to cool the sweat that was running down her body . |
| 23 | Those first six dancers had come to celebrate the newly awakened school of English classical dance that was establishing itself with the coming of peace . |
| 24 | The way to Lavondyss was a short climb away , and all she needed was to resign herself to the journey , to abandon Scathach . |
| 25 | Security officials feared that it was re-establishing itself in the region , possibly with the help of the small Catalan secessionist group Terra Lliure . |
| 26 | Alexander was disporting himself about the boat . |
| 27 | The alienation of king and archbishop gave added significance to long-standing grievances at a time when by protecting Eardwulf 's enemies the archbishop was allying himself against the king . |
| 28 | For all the tact of his dealings with the army , his words and policies in the summer of 1958 plainly showed that de Gaulle was disassociating himself from the ideology of integration — i.e. integration of Algeria into France — that many officers favoured . |
| 29 | To be seriously concerned with this field was to expose oneself to the possibility of ridicule when it turned out that one had been deceived by a clever confidence trickster ; at best it led to controversy , to results which were suggestive rather than conclusive , and away from those straightforward and answerable questions which since Galileo 's time had been the essence of scientific research . |
| 30 | Her voice faded as her body weakened and drooped , so that she seemed no more than the shadow of the eagle she must once have been , and a shadow that was losing itself in the darkness of a cage . |