Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a bookshop . |
| 2 | She looked into his dark eyes and submerged herself in the bliss of being flattered . |
| 3 | He removed his jacket , trousers , shirt , tie and underclothes and studied himself in the mirror . |
| 4 | A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen . |
| 5 | Policy must of course be converted into practice ; in both these schools overall spending policy and staffing priorities were significant expressions of commitment by the heads , and this can only have strengthened the resolve of those members of staff who served on the library committees and immersed themselves in the day-to-day business of winning a place in the project . |
| 6 | The romantic fantasy is nurtured in our youth with Enid Blyton books and ghost stories and manifests itself in the invention of tunnel myths . |
| 7 | It showed a girl by a sunlit window with her back turned , apparently drying her loins and watching herself in the mirror at the same time . |
| 8 | Many escaped to Gibraltar , joined the Allied armies and distinguished themselves in the fight against Hitler . |
| 9 | One spell had indeed leapt from the crackling pages and lodged itself in the dark recesses of his brain . |
| 10 | We , we ca n't stand there in front of members and put ourselves in the firing line if we do n't know the answers to their questions . |
| 11 | The ethnic differences that emerged elsewhere in the USSR in the late 1980s were for the most part more traditional , almost ‘ tribal ’ in character , in that they sprang from antipathies between ethnic groups with different religious , linguistic and historical backgrounds and expressed themselves in the form of communal clashes rather than pressures for formal independence . |
| 12 | Now he could understand why the Finns came running out of their saunas and rolled themselves in the snow . |
| 13 | Maura pushed her way through the adults and stationed herself in the front room next to the table piled high with food . |
| 14 | The cause of British nurses and nursing itself in the 1980s has been championed most consistently by Trevor Clay . |
| 15 | I did my best to oppose er , these new er , schemes and found myself in the majority of one quite often . |
| 16 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |