Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 7 | Robyn headed the jeep up the by now familiar track to the barn and tried to get herself into the right frame of mind . |
| 8 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 9 | You 'd given yourself to the highest bidder — ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 12 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 13 | She 'd flattened herself against the outside wall like someone in a spy movie . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As a result , an agreement was signed that about 50 rebel leaders could return to Nicaragua on condition that , like the returning contras , they renounced the armed struggle and illegal activities and agreed to incorporate themselves into the political system . |
| 20 | The Socialist League began to find itself in the same critical relationship with the Labour Party which had forced its predecessor , the ILP , to disaffiliate . |
| 21 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 22 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 23 | A few developed a liking for the racecourse and as it had been drummed into them to dress correctly for every occasion , somehow they managed to provide themselves with the obligatory long trailing gowns by lending each other clothes and accessories ; they appreciated the elegance of their suave escorts in tail coats and top hats . |
| 24 | As he pushed the calf 's head towards the udder he spat to rid himself of the polluting sight of birth . |
| 25 | Our spare room ( with the toys in ) was unfortunately impenetrably filled with sitting-room furniture ( the sitting-room is awaiting redecoration ) , but the boys managed to entertain themselves in the empty sitting-room instead . |
| 26 | The weekend saw the official BAFTA awards to all those luminous darlings who managed to outshine themselves over the past year on TV or film , and the release of the England averages for their Indian tour , along with the Coopers&Lybrand ratings of Test cricketers . |
| 27 | The religious divisions also hardened to a considerable extent into national ones ; Catholicism not only held firm in southern Europe but extended itself northward , Lutheranism failed to root itself outside the Teutonic lands , while Calvinism spread in a long thin arc from Scotland , through France and the Netherlands to Poland and Hungary . |
| 28 | Unless they dared to absent themselves from the slow unfolding of the plan — would not their keen minds continue to be needed ? |
| 29 | For instance , in an 1897 novel , The Typewriter Girl , the heroine comments on finding a job : ‘ I had justified myself before the impartial tribunal of political economy … |
| 30 | The tempo of a summer 's day had adjusted itself to the measured progress of the tournament through the placid dunes and sandhills . |