Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , unlike Locke , Parker omitted to account for this self-evidence , and so laid himself open to the objection of James Lowde , a defender of innateness , that such truths would not have been self-evident were they not innate . |
| 2 | On sight of them , he jumped down and first helped Aggie , then Millie up , and lastly squeezed himself corner-wise into the seat , took up the reins , and shouted , ‘ Gee up ! there . ’ |
| 3 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
| 4 | The instances where one can most easily make oneself aware of the distinction are perhaps the ambiguous phrases where the same adjective in construction with the same noun can be understood in either way with a consequent effect on the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 5 | ‘ Go and see who it is , will you , there 's a duck , ’ requested Constance , who had just made herself comfortable on the swinging seat . |
| 6 | The rebel republic has already declared itself independent from the Soviet Union and President Gorbachev threatened grave consequences if its parliament does n't renounce the decision . |
| 7 | If you can , erm , I do n't know how many of you have a sort of religious background anyway , in terms of you know , things like Sunday school and whatever , but if you can just get yourself familiar with the basic points of difference between Protestant and Catholic faith . |
| 8 | He could hardly ease himself free from the great stinking weight . |
| 9 | Nigel had once made himself unpopular at the office by writing in his column that women past thirty should shoot themselves . |
| 10 | At 92 , ‘ the nation 's grandmother ’ still considers herself head of the family firm . |
| 11 | Men offered a diplomatic post could not be blamed , as one writer put it , for " choosing rather to fix themselves near to the person of the Prince ; because the recompences for that service are much greater , and much more frequent , and because those that are absent are commonly forgotten , which makes them look upon an embassy as a sort of an honourable exile " . |
| 12 | Jules had tactfully made himself scarce on the pretext of work to be done at the new salon and now , two days after his visit to Maythorpe House , Harry was at last able to unburden himself . |
| 13 | He also proclaimed himself fit for the job and fully recovered from the heart attack that threatened his career over four years ago . |
| 14 | Smaller raids which followed on the south-German cities of Munich , Augsburg , and Nuremberg , had a disproportionate psychological effect in demonstrating the extent of allied air supremacy in the capacity to reach so far south , and in illustrating that few could now consider themselves immune from the dangers of bombing . |
| 15 | He has so far shown himself incapable of a knockout punch witness his feeble reply in the Commons yesterday to the onslaughts from his former Chancellor and from Labour leader John Smith . |
| 16 | From this point on , Flaubert must have known that any full length novel would probably take him five to seven years ; and therefore that most of his back-burner projects would inevitably boil themselves dry in the pot . |
| 17 | THE dream of a good night 's sleep can turn into a nightmare for one in five people who often find themselves awake into the early hours . |
| 18 | Allan Lamb , the vice-captain , now finds himself short of a quorum for the easily-bored touring club , which usually takes the form of a private knockabout well out of earshot of Micky Stewart . |
| 19 | I mean your own aim is really to make yourself superfluous in the end . |
| 20 | The desperate creature immediately spread itself flat on the back of the broom with its eyes glued shut as if awaiting execution . |
| 21 | You may well find yourself surprised at the reactions of other people . |
| 22 | She could n't quite tear herself free of the licensed dealing community . |