Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 2 | By looking after its past employees , the army sought to position itself as a caring organisation which would encourage new recruits . |
| 3 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 4 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |
| 5 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 6 | She called a gangcult a gangcult , but the Daughters tried to sell themselves as a Conservative Pressure Group . |
| 7 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 8 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 9 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 10 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 11 | It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride . |
| 12 | She leaned against the wooden wall , and tried to flatten herself as a tall thin man came out of an adjacent door and turned in her direction . |
| 13 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 14 | Robyn headed the jeep up the by now familiar track to the barn and tried to get herself into the right frame of mind . |
| 15 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 16 | You 'd given yourself to the highest bidder — ’ |
| 17 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 18 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 19 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 20 | I 'd got myself into a double bind , and there was no way out . ’ |
| 21 | She 'd flattened herself against the outside wall like someone in a spy movie . |
| 22 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 23 | With a slight change of posture — a lift of the head , a straightening of the already straight back , that little proud look — she seemed to transform herself into a great lady of some kind . |
| 24 | No doubt his personal friendship with Wyatt , which was sustained throughout the work , helped , but Scott , with some justification , seemed to regard himself as the senior partner . |
| 25 | Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror , unaccountable yet unendurable , I threw on my clothes with haste ( for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night ) , and endeavoured to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen , by pacing rapidly to and fro through the apartment . |
| 26 | Their demands are much like those of the ill-fated Democratic Platform — reformers who quit the party but failed to organise themselves into a workable opposition . |
| 27 | Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled . |
| 28 | Enver Hoxha 's widow Nexhmije Hoxha , who had headed the Communist-dominated Democratic Front until December 1990 , but who had subsequently been expelled from the party as it sought to rid itself of the hardline old guard , was arrested on Dec. 4 to stand trial for corruption , as was Rita Marko , a politburo member for 34 years until July 1990 . |
| 29 | If they happened to attach themselves to an old woman who lived by herself , they were risking a savage death as a witch 's familiar . |
| 30 | Say , 44 , of Craigmuir Croft , Ythanbank , near Ellon , appeared from custody and admitted conducting himself in a disorderly manner at his home while in possession of a loaded shotgun between 15 and 17 February , repeatedly threatening to shoot himself and committing a breach of the peace . |