Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the rapid , repetitive beat two glistening bodies were contorting themselves into an impossible position , their backs horizontal to the floor and no more than a foot from it . |
| 2 | With their assistance , gears and warped carburettor components and portions of armour major and minor were assembling themselves into an enormous baroque weapon . |
| 3 | In effect the Berlin banks who loaned money to the Junkers were paying themselves through an agricultural clearing house in East Prussia . |
| 4 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 5 | This man was lodging himself like an irritating burr under her skin . |
| 6 | Patrick did n't need to be a doctor to know that his mother was drinking herself into an early grave . |
| 7 | The music by which he frequently composed his poetry ( a natural continuance of a centuries-old tradition ) was asserting itself as an independent expression . |