Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after winning in Galway and on the Circuit of Ireland , McHale could n't keep the momentum going in Killarney last weekend and found himself virtually out of the hunt after just one stage . |
| 2 | He let himself quietly out of the house and the silence closed in around Hari , smothering her . |
| 3 | All the same , John Alexander 's piece on the Paris period would have made livelier and easier reading if he had not , like Richard Humphreys on the London years , limited himself so self-effacingly to the documentation , necessary though that is . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the Catholic church involved itself fully both in the important rites of passage , such as baptism , marriage , and the last rites , that marked an individual 's progress from the cradle to the grave , and also in the annual round of celebrations which marked out the changing seasons . |
| 5 | Generally speaking , DCSLs advised on availability , choice and the mechanics of acquisition , down to and including the precise way in which order forms were to be completed , but in at least one case the DCSL involved herself more fully in the policy-making deliberations of the school library committee . |
| 6 | And the two policemen were ushered out of the office and found themselves once again in the hallway . |
| 7 | Much to my disgust I then found myself as far from the sea as I could get — Heathrow Airport , which was just in its infancy but beginning to grow rapidly with the postwar boom in air travel . |
| 8 | ‘ I have spent time in Greece and Malta during those countries ’ General Elections and found the electorate involved themselves much more in the campaigns and really enjoyed the experience , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Dorcas lowered himself gingerly on to the brink and sat with his legs dangling over the drop . |
| 10 | He lowered himself very carefully into the chair at the head of the table . |
| 11 | Then he flung himself neatly across to the bed , thinking agreeably of life with Fred and Daisy as he went , and another spring broke . |
| 12 | And lest there be any misunderstanding as to the intensity of the attachment Lugard had in mind , it may be noted that his thinking revealed itself quite clearly on the subject of loyalty when he wrote of military matters and the secret of command . |
| 13 | He threw himself almost sideways through the gap , rolling across the ground as much to put out the fire that was burning him as to lessen the momentum of the fall . |
| 14 | She threw herself backwards on to the wooden desk , and swung her legs high above her . |
| 15 | Marianne crossed the room with her usual catlike grace and threw herself casually down on the bed . |
| 16 | He had , after all , surpassed himself once more in the 1991 Ryder Cup by winning 4½ points out of 5 . |
| 17 | Central government and received opinion were powerless against that pressure , which expressed itself most clearly in the urge to enter secondary-modern pupils for public examinations . |
| 18 | She lowered herself further down into the gully , and urinated on the ground . |
| 19 | The Navigator shuddered and focused himself more acutely on the immaterium without , alert for maelstroms . |
| 20 | Alexandra prised herself reluctantly out of the chair and stood looking down at her Great Aunt . |
| 21 | When she contracted breast cancer , she used phototherapy to defeat her sense of powerlessness and despair — a mug shot of her damaged breast re-humanised the dehumanisation of the hospital process — and placed herself once more in the centre of her own drama . |
| 22 | Their first set was all up-tempo , driving stuff , from Sonny Rollins 's Tenor Madness to Harold Arlen 's My Shining Hour , and they acquitted themselves well enough alongside the visitor , although the rhythm section were a little at-odds with each other stylistically . |
| 23 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 24 | ‘ It was not my fault ! ’ she protested involuntarily , and thus brought herself once again under the scrutiny of those keen eyes from the bed . |
| 25 | Then she went upstairs to tell Giovanna that she thought she would not be able to stay for her Italian lesson , because she felt so ill , and took herself painfully back across the Grand Canal to her temporary home . |
| 26 | She saw herself once again in the cheval glass . |
| 27 | The boys eased themselves carefully out of the back of the car and pulled out some of the stores with care . |
| 28 | Eliot was one of the beneficiaries , erm he supported himself almost entirely by the advocacy of various kinds of reform in all aspects of human affairs . |
| 29 | She skipped out of the way as the broom flicked itself busily in through the door . |
| 30 | OD1 proved itself much more like the classic Marshall sound , with enough dirt to make things ballsy , but not so much that backing off the guitar did n't clean up the tone for real blues rhythm playing and crunchy Bryan Adams-type chords . |