Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 For a few moments Sandison allowed himself to take in the figure before him and he ignored what had been said .
2 As Withel tensed himself to turn on the tourist Rincewind lashed out and caught the thief on the jaw .
3 It took some time before Willie allowed himself to relax in the water .
4 Francis forced himself to look at the screens again , and he could see that there were less of the winged creatures flitting among the struts and cables .
5 By early January 1945 , observers in the Stuttgart area were pointing out that Mein Kampf was being — rather belatedly — cited to prove that Germany had itself to blame for the war , that Hitler 's expansionist aims which he had laid down twenty years earlier were the cause of the war , and that it was therefore clear that ‘ the Führer has worked for war from the very beginning ’ .
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