Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am currently in therapy to enable myself to hear the song Schiehallion , Schiehallion without the scent of tomato soup filling my nostrils and the overwhelming urge to murder . |
| 2 | The movement could be said to have started in Scotland in 1972 , when the Headteachers ' Association set themselves to determine the range of items of information needed to produce a comprehensive picture of the aptitudes and interests of all pupils , offering them a common form of statement , which would be generally comprehensible and would be available to them when appropriate . |
| 3 | The scientific committee had itself recommended an option calling for as much logging as could be carried out in compliance with US environmental laws , far more than in the option chosen by the President . |
| 4 | What 's more , having themselves expanded to massive premises during that time , Harmony found themselves supporting a business whose sales were being rifled wholesale by cheap(er) imports . |
| 5 | If at the pre-trial review the defendant does not appear and has not delivered an admission or defence and the plaintiff produces evidence as to the amount of his damages , then judgment may be entered for them ( Ord 17 , r 2(2) ) , but if evidence is not then produced the court may enter a judgment for unliquidated damages and thereafter , unless the court has itself fixed a date for assessment of such damages , the plaintiff may apply for such assessment on seven days ' notice to the defendant ( Ord 22 , r 6(1) ) . |
| 6 | The landlord found himself returning the smile with a grin of his own . |
| 7 | Will the Hon. Gentleman pledge himself to renationalise the steel industry ? |
| 8 | It is no longer the case that the romantic style means dancing classically from the feet to the waist and above that allowing the body , arms and head to express themselves to describe the moods , emotions and actions of the characters . |
| 9 | He turned back , for a while busying himself preparing the food . |
| 10 | If the local authority has itself obtained an emergency protection order it must make inquiries to ascertain what action it should take next ( s47(2) ) . |
| 11 | The Department of the Environment has itself undertaken a number of reports updating progress in the enterprise zones ( DoE , 1985b ; 1987a ) . |
| 12 | Before the Act the courts would not interfere with any decision by a local authority relating to a child in its care under statutory authority unless the local authority had itself brought the matter before the court , or the facts were such as to entitle the local authority 's decision to be challenged by way of judicial review : A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 , 373 , per Lord Wilberforce . |
| 13 | Folly found herself reading the labels on boxes stacked around her . |
| 14 | Although there have been more comprehensive examinations of the record of the governments , the above four policy areas are of interest because the Conservative government pledged itself to change the direction of policy in them . |
| 15 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 16 | In taking steps to tighten control over the peasantry and the zemstvos , the government saw itself consolidating the alliance between State and nobility . |
| 17 | CAPENHURST foreman John Albino found himself facing the cameras and some tough questions recently . |
| 18 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 19 | The driver sat drumming his fingers nervously on the steering wheel while the attendant busied himself filling the tank , checking the oil and radiator , and wiping the windscreen . |
| 20 | As Knocker busied himself filling the bottles , Herbie turned to his main adversary . |
| 21 | Yeah so the big thing about this is is getting up to date getting yourself understanding the terms when he says cos squared when he says simple har when he says S H M you think yeah . |
| 22 | Woodville had seized £10,250 in English gold coin from the vessel on the grounds that it was forfeit to the crown , and by the indenture bound himself to give the patron its value in English merchandise if that proved not to be the case . |
| 23 | Woodville had seized £1O,250 in English gold coin from the vessel on the grounds that it was forfeit to the crown , and by the indenture bound himself to give the patron its value in English merchandise if that proved not to be the case . |
| 24 | It already ran the staff restaurant at Heal 's when retail conglomerate Storehouse occupied the entire building , but the opportunity to introduce the multi-tenant system presented itself following the departure of Conran Design . |
| 25 | As the temperature drops from T m , the melt viscosity , which is a function of the molar mass , increases and the diffusion rate decreases , thereby giving the chains greater opportunity to rearrange themselves to form a nucleus . |
| 26 | The situation where one French machinegun section found itself holding a hole in the front two hundred yards wide with its two machine guns for several days in complete detachment from the rest of the army , was by no means unique . |
| 27 | As a result of these anti-avoidance provisions , the foreign business carve-out is excluded , and the general COB Rules apply in relation to the customer concerned , where : ( 1 ) A UK office executes a transaction with or for a UK private customer on the instructions of a non-UK office ; or ( 2 ) A UK office gives investment advice in relation to any transaction to a non-UK office , which the non-UK office passes on to ( or uses for the benefit of ) a UK private customer if ( in either case ) : ( a ) the UK office itself transmitted the order to a non-UK office of the firm ( even if a different one from that instructing it ) ; ( b ) the UK office has itself advised the customer in relation to the transaction concerned ( and the customer has then directly or indirectly given the order to the non-UK office which deals through the UK office ) ; or ( c ) the UK office has advised the customer to deal through or seek advice from a non-UK office of the firm ( even if the relevant prescribed disclosure was made ) . |
| 28 | The USSR as such was held to have ‘ ended its existence ’ , but the members of the Commonwealth pledged themselves to discharge the obligations that arose from the 15,000 or so international treaties and agreements to which the USSR had been a party . |
| 29 | Some successful athletes spend 75 per cent of their time visualizing themselves achieving the results they need . |
| 30 | In addition , the year-long political deadlock had itself become an election issue because the weak coalitions formed after the previous elections had been unable to deal with the economic crisis and the growth of urban terrorism . |