Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 2 | Jules had tactfully made himself scarce on the pretext of work to be done at the new salon and now , two days after his visit to Maythorpe House , Harry was at last able to unburden himself . |
| 3 | Nigel had once made himself unpopular at the office by writing in his column that women past thirty should shoot themselves . |
| 4 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 5 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
| 6 | Both Michael Lynagh and David Campese have made themselves available for the tournament . |
| 7 | ‘ I think he 'd got himself involved with the law . |
| 8 | Oh ma'am if only I had shown myself strong in the face of temptation ! |
| 9 | And to compound the problem , the local planning authority had shown themselves unsympathetic to the owner 's over-ambitious plans for rebuilding . |
| 10 | Money had proved itself flimsy in the face of those imponderables . |
| 11 | Against her will Polly had found herself curious about the subject of such intense speculation . |
| 12 | WITHAM Town A have prised themselves clear of the relegation battle in Division One of the Chelmsford and District Table Tennis League with victories over NatWest A and Maldon A. |
| 13 | Roy Wegerle , the £1 million Rangers newcomer who has declared himself available to the United States , was last night offered the chance of an alternative route to the World Cup next summer by Bobby Robson . |
| 14 | He had cut himself loose from the past and had good hopes of making a comfortable landfall . |
| 15 | Hytner , Warner and Branagh have declared themselves uninterested in the executive hassle of running our large subsidised companies . |
| 16 | If we 'd blown the network because of the hostages we would have left ourselves blind in the middle of a minefield . |
| 17 | By running for deputy , he has left himself open to the accusation that he has no hope of becoming leader . |
| 18 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 19 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |