Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others had festering wounds that seemed never to heal , or had adapted themselves to a three-legged gait , running as fast as the other dogs but with one leg , withered or deformed from birth , tucked up under their bodies . |
| 2 | It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action . |
| 3 | Later SF , in its " New Wave " ( 1960s and 1970s ) and " Cyberpunk " ( 1980s and 1990s ) manifestations , has become more " invisible " and " difficult " , and has extended itself beyond the boundaries of the genre . |
| 4 | As a divorcee , Docherty can no longer take communion and has distanced himself from the catholic faith , an institution he believes deserted him in his hour of need . |
| 5 | H&C 's management knows where it does not want to be , and has distanced itself from the previously volatile structure with some skill . |
| 6 | Nicholas Stavrogin has arrived during the summer months of 1870s , and has established himself as the one ‘ who might really be called the chief character of the novel ’ . |
| 7 | This particular project began in Liverpool in 1976 and has established itself as a national model for radical working-class adult education . |
| 8 | Joyfully and thankfully reconciled with me , and having proved himself in a very arduous campaign , he might well have rested on his laurels in comfort and safety , waiting for the war to end or to be drafted to some new theatre of operations . |
| 9 | Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all . |
| 10 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 11 | On reaching Arcady , he 'd attempted to call Zambia 's old apartment and had explained himself to the woman who now lived there . |
| 12 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 13 | " And directly after this , at the beginning of Chapter 17 , there is another abrupt change of tone : [ 7 ] Captain Cuttle , in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming , with which ( as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity ) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature , had gone to Mr Dombey 's house on the eventful Sunday , winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity , and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson ( I ) . |
| 14 | And then suddenly she felt something running up her leg she looked down it was the spider , it had left Mademoiselle a long time ago and had secreted itself under a desk afraid of all the trampling feet around . |
| 15 | Mrs. Bidwell , the Laboratory cleaner , had insisted on visiting her broom cupboard , under escort , and had provided herself with a feather duster and a couple of rags with which she made a vigorous onslaught on the bookshelves . |
| 16 | Dr Whelan had spent three years at the Chester Beatty and had devoted herself to a detailed study of this particular Qur'an . |
| 17 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 18 | The latest investigations also relate to incidents in 1988 when Mrs Mandela had returned to Soweto after years of banishment by the authorities to a remote town in the Orange Free State and had surrounded herself with a bodyguard of ‘ football club ’ thugs . |
| 19 | It was yielding some ore but had found itself amongst the old bottoms out of which " the eyes had been picked " . |