Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
| 2 | Then , in the middle of the election campaign , he suddenly found himself among the accused . |
| 3 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 4 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 5 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 6 | They skirted the city , threading their way through the still-silent streets and , following the Prior 's careful directions , soon found themselves on the broad beaten approach to the port of Leith . |
| 7 | Newcastle 's natural nervousness soon reasserted itself for the French had clearly not abandoned their plan and had even managed to bring the transports at Nantes , on the River Loire , to join those further up the coast at Vannes in the Gulf of Morbihan , about midway between St Nazaire and Lorient . |
| 8 | In the 1933 elections the socialists no longer associated themselves with the divided fractions of the middle class republican government , hoping to rally a broad following independently . |
| 9 | Winton duly threw himself into the muddled affairs of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia , a group of diverse personalities whose good intentions far outstretched their capacity to offer constructive help . |
| 10 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 11 | Into the nineteenth century , as I have mentioned , I middle-class houses were regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , while a majority of novels still referred themselves to the dominant mansion at their centre . |
| 12 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 13 | He always presented himself as the redeemed bad boy , but it was a lie , she says . |
| 14 | He still held himself with the easy confidence she remembered , his dark head carried at an unconsciously arrogant angle , and he still had that polish to him , the patina of success . |
| 15 | Racial and economic tensions related to the immigration issue also manifested themselves during the early months of 1990 . |
| 16 | They carefully distanced themselves from the dirty work , but did n't hesitate to employ his services . |
| 17 | Regional roots aside , the band always wisely distanced themselves from the now-dead scene — but , as Andy candidly remarks , ‘ everybody said that , did n't they ? |
| 18 | He also established himself in the Russian trade , which during the French wars offered exceptional opportunities for profit . |
| 19 | England … … … 0 Australia … … .. 0 STEVE TAYLOR probably established himself as the rightful successor to his more famous namesake , Ian , when he gave an outstanding performance of goalkeeping in England 's final game in the Lada Classic at Luton yesterday - a goalless draw with the world champions . |
| 20 | Whether or not they were former members of Big Flame , the International Marxist Group , or any of the other sects which now dissolved themselves into the Labour Party , the Right-Ons ' most effective weapon was an endless capacity to attend even the most obscure meetings . |
| 21 | Simultaneously he increasingly involved himself in the literary life of London , a change in the balance of his career which began when he made the acquaintance of the poet , Alfred ( later first Baron ) Tennyson [ q.v. ] , who in 1867 commissioned Knowles to design his house in Aldworth , Sussex . |
| 22 | Juliet even surprised herself at the bitter words spilling over . |
| 23 | The trooper climbed reluctantly over the handrail and then lowered himself onto the supporting props below . |
| 24 | The driver gracefully unwound himself from the low-slung vehicle and stood up , stretching his back , unaware that he was being watched . |
| 25 | And feeling them , he had stopped swimming , thrown a wordless curse at the sky , then surrendered himself to the black cold beneath the surface of the moat . |
| 26 | Fortunately , the German spirit that found expression in the Reformation , and with it gave rise to the first German music , has never yet fully lost itself in the dominant Alexandrianism . |
| 27 | Maxim instinctively smiled at him , then despised himself for the silly band-of-brother-soldiers stuff . |
| 28 | Despite this bitter tragedy the town again rallied itself to the Yorkist cause when in 1470 they assisted King Edward IV in dispelling a Lancastrian uprising at the battle of Loosecoat Field . |
| 29 | This was not common practice but it reached its apotheosis in the 1945 general election when the Observer completely detached itself from the political parties and carried articles by representatives of each of the main parties . |
| 30 | She mentally steeled herself for the long evening ahead , but , as it turned out , it was n't nearly as long as she had anticipated because towards the end of the evening she heard a sharp knocking on the door , and opened it to find André standing outside , a huge bunch of flowers in his arms . |