Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our hood added insult to embarrassment by breaking the poppers on its leading edge one after the other until David Vivian found himself circumnavigating the M25 one evening with one hand on the wheel and another holding the hood to keep it from flying off . |
| 2 | Thakin Thein Pe exerted himself to bring the two Communist parties together again , on the grounds that both ‘ Had a common object … in contesting British imperialism ’ . |
| 3 | King Hussein had himself undertaken a tour of major European capitals from Jan. 2 in a final attempt to prevent the outbreak of war with Iraq . |
| 4 | Would-be teacher learns to count her blessings AFTER five months teaching English to handicapped children in Poland , a Stokesley teenager has herself learned a valuable lesson to count her blessings . |
| 5 | We see his professional disdain : before he arrived he spoke disparagingly of his impending host , doubting that Mr MacAulay had himself authored the history of the island of St Kilda , which bore his name . |
| 6 | With a busy practice at his surgery at Stroud in Gloucestershire , Dr Gordon Horner finds himself working a fifty hour week . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 9 | The Virginia Company had itself produced a subsidiary company which occupied the islands at first known officially as Somers Islands — though when Shakespeare wrote The Tempest some people already called them the Bermoothes , and Bermuda it remained for posterity . |
| 10 | And so , for the second time in his life , Lawrence Beesley found himself leaving the Titanic just before it was due to go down . |
| 11 | And when he went on teaching practice , Liang Heng found himself transmitting the same old dogma : ‘ The blind obedience that made the Cultural Revolution possible was being fostered still . |
| 12 | CAPENHURST foreman John Albino found himself facing the cameras and some tough questions recently . |