Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week , he 'd organised himself with impressive speed . |
| 2 | He 'd got himself into enough trouble already by doing too much of that . |
| 3 | With a sinking feeling she knew what he meant — he had no intention of telling his brother how he 'd got himself into this situation . |
| 4 | In fact later on during the flight , when I 'd unravelled myself from this guy and was playing poker with some French people , I asked God to give me the sign then , in the hand I was about to get . |
| 5 | It had arranged itself around bright canvas bags and wicker baskets in the part-shade of a fishing-boat . |
| 6 | After the war , German universities had rebuilt themselves with much help from overseas , particularly the US , but little direction from central government . |
| 7 | A driver had wrenched himself from another machine and was running back . |
| 8 | In the preceding months he had prepared himself with meticulous care , filling his mind with distilled knowledge , drop by drop , until … it was almost brimming over . |
| 9 | Wordsworth had some idea of what was going on , as he had prepared himself for this second visit by reading pamphlets , and probably had a letter of introduction to Brissot ; but at first he was only sentimentally affected by the ideals of the Revolution . |
| 10 | But even if the relative lack of profitable investment opportunities goes some way to explaining the poor investment rate , then if US business had felt itself under more pressure , it might have made greater efforts to improve technology . |
| 11 | Not necessarily that of mother and son ; Steve had detached himself from that hook and would never be hung on it again . |
| 12 | They could n't read or write , but Topaz longed to know about the world in which she lived , learn about strange lands beyond the seas , and the even more puzzling ways of the gaujos who spent their whole time shut up in houses made of bricks or stone , as if they had condemned themselves to perpetual imprisonment . |
| 13 | The question turned off Lomax 's interest like a tap that realises it had flooded itself into deep water . |
| 14 | They were also asked to describe the major characteristics of the groups in which they had found themselves at each point in their time on the terraces . |
| 15 | I can look back with pride on recalling how well I had adapted myself to this trade , and all aspects involved . |
| 16 | After he had gone and after they had introduced themselves to each other , David Fairfax said reflectively , " I know that man . |
| 17 | Since battle had been effectively joined last spring , when Major first considered going to the country , the parties had bludgeoned themselves into mutual exhaustion before the final clash of arms . |
| 18 | When she thought of her son-in-law , how he had inveigled himself into this house and into this old woman 's good books , she again felt a pity for Len rise in her . |
| 19 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 20 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 21 | She had delivered herself of this statement to Inspector Paul Lane , who was gently triumphant at what he had got . |
| 22 | She remembered how she had submerged herself in scented water every day and sometimes twice in the sticky summertime and never would again , until she grew up and had a bathroom of her own . |
| 23 | ‘ The day was over , and from dawn to twilight , or rather from one night to another , I had lost myself in that symphony . ’ |
| 24 | Disproportionately she had longed , in the interminable wastes of adolescence , in the grey and monotonous steppes , and some of the longing had attached itself to this night , this one night of the year , when others ( she knew from school friends , from the radio , from novels ) , when others went to parties and celebrated whatever was about to be . |
| 25 | But organized science had allied itself with Big Business and Government ; it had no interest in the individual — its meat was statistics ! |