Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not overawed by the forbidding tors and jagged rocks , nor felt themselves threatened by the rolling acres of granite uplands . |
| 2 | And they forgot to knock at the door and make themselves known to the people inside . |
| 3 | Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms . |
| 4 | Somehow it must have found its way through the post-and-wire barrier that bounded the meadow , skipped farther on and got itself tangled in the barbs of the fencing at the top of the embankment beyond , above the railway line . |
| 5 | I spent a romantic holiday on the island some 30 years ago in a mountain village with a non-sailing companion and found myself pining in the summer heat for that azure water in the little harbour below . |
| 6 | Taking a photograph , I had stepped forward onto nothing and found myself flying through the air , cartwheeling like a rag doll , striking sharp edges and corners and buffeted by hard objects . |
| 7 | Rincewind made the mistake of glancing downwards , and found himself looking through the dragon to the treetops below . |
| 8 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 9 | Blake was astonished , and found himself moving towards the Doctor . |
| 10 | At Newport Morrissey fell victim to innocent crowd over-enthusiasm and found himself dragged into the mob . |
| 11 | Robert Smith was a relative of John 's first wife and found himself summoned by the great man to take over the accounts . |
| 12 | She asked herself which of them she should phone and found herself trembling at the thought of phoning any of them . |
| 13 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 14 | Lowering her head , Loretta stepped through the narrow gap , and found herself looking from the shadow of the gateway across a carefully tended lawn to the far side of the college . |
| 15 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 16 | She stood motionless , waiting for the two to break apart , and found herself staring at the girl from whom Niall was now gently detaching himself . |
| 17 | After the meal she escaped as soon as she could and found herself walking up the stairs with Mitch . |
| 18 | The other teenage boys in the room were obviously heated with drugs and talk of women , for Amal was pounced upon by several boys at once and found herself pinned to the floor . |
| 19 | How can you reach an acceptable level of data security and stop yourself falling into the ‘ it could n't happen to me ’ trap ? |
| 20 | She is never entirely comfortable until she has surveyed those before her , put them mentally in their places and seen herself rise to the top in doing so . |
| 21 | ‘ And get ourselves spitted in the process . |
| 22 | They would sip sherry or port , nibble at the nuts and raisins and allow themselves to wallow in the warm softness . |
| 23 | Then one night in an alleyway he witnesses a murder and finds himself lumbered with the dead man 's child . |
| 24 | Wasp liberal lawyer Kevin Kline takes a short-cut and finds himself plunged into the sort of yuppie nightmare that triggered Bonfire of the Vanities . |
| 25 | You can use a camera in the classroom to let learners see and hear themselves communicating in the target language . |
| 26 | To come all this way and find herself staying in the house of people with the same name as those she was trying to trace ? |
| 27 | From here we descend to the crypt and find ourselves surrounded by the 11C remains of the Romanesque basilica . |
| 28 | She looked in shop windows and willed herself to think of the days when she would be able to afford clothes like she saw there . |
| 29 | He tried , and felt himself falling into the tree , confused , unable to find a stance that did not give way into clutching twigs and flailing branches . |
| 30 | Boulders flung against the cliff by the waves are much more likely to knock off projecting corners and become themselves rounded in the process than to dislodge rock masses . |