Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 2 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 3 | Thus the clown prince of English football crowned himself as the football emperor of the Eternal City . |
| 4 | The old lady sat herself on the red plush sofa and behind her the woodwork of the grand piano gleamed in the dim light . |
| 5 | A permanent consultation mechanism was established and the public sector committed itself to the privatization of state enterprises except for certain strategic concerns , and to the substantial reduction of unnecessary bureaucracy , of expenditure and of the public deficit . |
| 6 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 7 | As the nappy fell apart , a rich brown revelation mingled itself with the scent of talcum powder . |
| 8 | Further attempts at fostering were not tried , and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael 's life . |
| 9 | An approaching wooden wall resolved itself into the form of a small boat , in which Richmann sat , with another man using the oars to hold position . |
| 10 | And above their heads the monitors showed captions rolling , and the faint tinny music entwined itself into the noise , and the screens blacked . |
| 11 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
| 12 | But seven years later in 1935 , on the eve of the Italian invasion , while the war drums were beating outside the palace to summon the nation to war , an old man presented himself before the Emperor . |
| 13 | The Scottish Jacobites withdrew themselves from the Scottish Convention which met on 14 March 1689 , and as a result the settlement north of the border was worked out predominantly by Whigs . |
| 14 | Here these Cornish sappers dedicated themselves to the work they knew best , digging defensive trenches and building parapets as well as blowing up houses blocking the range of the gunnery . |
| 15 | One can easily understand the ferocity with which the more creative British filmmakers positioned themselves against the new development . |
| 16 | As she bent up from the oven , up out of the kitchen , a shaft of watery sun manifested itself on the floor like a dim splash of paint . |
| 17 | Nietzsche was not present , but whereas the premiere of Tristan in 1865 had not prompted any discernible reaction in him , on this occasion he took a much livelier interest and during the following months familiarized himself with the work through the score . |
| 18 | Aided by her publicity adviser , Sir Gordon Reece , the mousy frump in sensible shoes and off-the-peg clothing transformed herself into the glamorous power-dresser , with coiffed blonde hair and capped teeth , who led President Mitterrand to slaver , ‘ She has the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe . ’ |
| 19 | He jumped as a dark shape detached itself from the wall . |
| 20 | He was a chaser of the highest class , and had not other horses of unproven stamina excelled themselves in the National ? |
| 21 | Willi 's strong , stocky body inserted itself under the Direktor 's arm and he supported him out through the theatre door towards the car . |
| 22 | Two vaguely serpentine exters detached themselves from the group . |
| 23 | It was when they decided to return to shore that a terrible storm unleashed itself in the Moray Firth . |
| 24 | Anxiously , they waited as Delaney 's black figure lowered itself into the fog , and was lost , bit by bit , from view , suggesting a primordial creature descending into a tropical , mist-covered swamp . |
| 25 | The flare sank lower ; was , he guessed , down to about thirty seconds , when one of the black figures detached itself from the shadows . |
| 26 | Black people found themselves on the receiving end of racism in all manner of forms from the beginning of their arrival in Britain . |
| 27 | While Jackson and Dixon were performing regularly in the English rings , a black man distinguished himself on the track . |
| 28 | Whereas the nineteenth-century state concerned itself with the common affairs of all capital owners , the growth of giant industrial corporations and of large financial combines has now led to the almost complete exclusion of other capitalist fractions from influence over the state . |
| 29 | The truth is that the social sciences reflected the pre-conceptions and problems of bourgeois liberalism in its classic form , which was not found in Germany , where bourgeois society inserted itself into the Bismarckian framework of aristocrats and bureaucrats . |
| 30 | It had n't reached the zenith of its arc before a black shape detached itself from the shadows in the corner of the room and swooped down , taking the morsel in mid-air . |