Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] with an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RAY THOMAS caught some Shannies on the local beach and found himself with an unusual breeding project . |
| 2 | The ladies , therefore , had four or five babies as quickly after marriage as nature would permit , and thus provided themselves with an indefinite number of conversational gambits . |
| 3 | John Marshall was given ample time to cross and Farrell redeemed himself with an unstoppable half volley . |
| 4 | His intense irritation with his distant superiors transferred itself with an illogical rush to the silent girl , and he caught her by the arm . |
| 5 | Seeing him in good spirits now , Boswell teased him for his earlier hesitancy , called him ‘ a delicate Londoner … a macaroni ’ , and Johnson defended himself with an unserious disingenuousness by saying he had only feared not finding a horse able enough to carry him . |
| 6 | He usually bedded down on newspapers and covered himself with an old blanket which he sometimes left in the porch , ready for the next night , and sometimes took away , rolled into a long wad and tied around his stomach with string . |
| 7 | By this time , the middle of 1986 , the Alliance Against Hinkley C had decided to avoid any confusion with the then burgeoning political coalition of centre parties , and renamed itself with an unambiguous slogan — ‘ Stop Hinkley Expansion' ( SHE ) . |
| 8 | One is that corporate America has not , as a whole , burdened itself with an excessive amount of debt . |