Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was quite clear this time what the answer must be ; she 'd felt herself call the magic , felt it respond to her . |
| 2 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 3 | I 'd trained myself to have no feelings — yet suddenly I 'm coming back to life . |
| 4 | What distressed her most was that she began to find herself liking the woman , with whom she realized she had much in common . |
| 5 | For a second or two the expression of the Annamese.camp " boy " hardened as he stared at his employer , then he moved away from the peephole and began to busy himself cleaning the pots and pans that had been used to prepare the meal . |
| 6 | He misinterpreted the Act and he failed to allow himself to have the jurisdiction to deal in a flexible manner with the children , which is the whole purpose of the Act , and consequently it is for this court to make the order that it appears Judge Galpin would have liked to have made and felt impeded from so doing . |
| 7 | He supposed that she had to be somewhere and he reminded himself that they were n't supposed to be together so what did it matter , but still he kept catching himself scanning the crowd for her . |
| 8 | They had been dropped near their target , Nofilia airfield , and the following day had hidden themselves to observe the defences . |
| 9 | Civilian paramilitary units operated in several parts of Yugoslavia , notably among the Serbs of Kosovo and in Croatia , where extremists in the ruling Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) had armed themselves to counter the insurgency by armed bands operating in the republic 's Serbian municipalities . |
| 10 | Cathy was pale and drawn and she looked tired-not , he thought , like a woman who , expecting the sack , had found herself owning the business . |
| 11 | Ever since she had held the baby she had found herself treating the doll in the same way . |
| 12 | However , that morning she had found herself preparing the children 's sandwiches for school — as she did each day — by buttering newspaper instead of the bread . |
| 13 | With the income from the three films he had completed in eighteen months , he had stretched himself to buy a house in Beverly Hills . |
| 14 | In that work Tolkien had set himself to write a romance for an audience brought up on novels . |
| 15 | He then declared that he and those with him on the platform had pledged themselves to pay no fines and refused to be bound over , ‘ and we have authorised no one to pay these fines for us . |
| 16 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |
| 17 | The sea was so cold she had to force herself to take the plunge . |
| 18 | They saw his body in the moat , where he had thrown himself to escape the mob . |
| 19 | In more than two years of living with one band of Semai , my wife and I witnessed only two instances of large-scale co-operative action , one of which I had to organize myself to mobilize a labour force to repair a dangerously deteriorated suspension bridge which nearly everyone in the band used every day , and which was literally on the verge of collapse . |
| 20 | I did n't believe her : my sense of superiority had extended itself to include a conviction of my own immortality . |