Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had demolished Leeds in such a pyschologically damaging fashion on Saturday at Maine Road that Howard Wilkinson 's side were steeling themselves for disappointment . |
| 2 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 3 | Twenty years ago the same testy attitude was asserting itself in Parliament , prompting one MP to urge Mr Butler not to give in to ‘ the wild men of the Conservative Party ’ . |
| 4 | The rhetoric suggests that the author is distancing himself from antisemitism and from the absurdities of the conspiratorial interpretation of politics . |
| 5 | Yet what I was really doing was hardening myself against disappointment — my mother was going to be abroad when the baby was born . |
| 6 | Its instinct is to root itself in truth , to earth itself in reality , and it is this which distinguishes faith from fantasy , the object of faith from a figment of the imagination . |
| 7 | Wolves in fact have done more than most to provide evidence that the game is ridding itself of violence . |
| 8 | The theremin was playing itself with passion , with feeling . |
| 9 | Rivington was hugging himself with glee , as they approached Hyde Park Corner . |
| 10 | North told him not to be downhearted , ‘ that the one bright spot is that the government is availing itself of part of the money for application to Central America . ’ |
| 11 | CD is comparing himself as narrator to someone following a reel which unwinds the thread of the story from itself as it rolls along in front of him . |
| 12 | Every day the Profitboss is putting himself at risk . |