Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] an " in BNC.

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1 Instead I was getting myself into an increasingly confrontational situation , a battle of wills , with the Director of Coaching .
2 She had stayed there , always conscious that she was preparing herself for an existence of unutterable boredom , and was one of an enormous number of women who were training themselves for an ‘ if I do n't marry ’ life .
3 She probably imagined she was comporting herself in an attractively provocative and feminine fashion , thought Lydia , sneering and lengthening her stride .
4 what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 …
5 It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal .
6 While householders fumed in queues to find out how they should pay , he was sunning himself on an Indian Ocean holiday .
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