Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | His visual impressions have been fading without his knowing it , and with their reactivation stale information has suddenly sorted itself out into a new and firm pattern . |
2 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
3 | Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me . |
4 | Founded in 1971 DIOK have built themselves up as the strongest outfit in Holland and were Dutch champions in 1981 , 1989 , 1990 , 1991 and 1992 . |
5 | But most of those fighting girls have sold themselves out to the big operators , and work the male kick themselves , clitoris or no clitoris . |
6 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
7 | He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years . |
8 | The patriot had already locked itself on to an Iraqi scud aimed at a Saudi airbase . |
9 | The same scenario had played itself out in a hundred different ways when she was a child . |
10 | There were seven of us sharing the place , the Carters ' eldest son and his girlfriend having invited themselves along at the last moment , and their movements were completely unpredictable . |
11 | He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
12 | Engineer and motorbike enthusiast Terence Bird has set himself up as the sole European importer of Nanchang bikes . |
13 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
14 | And , if it had not been for the speedy response from the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
15 | And if it had not been for the speedy response of the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
16 | Morton Meyerson , head of Perot Systems Corp , appears to have ruled himself out of the vacant post atop IBM Corp according to the New York Times : it reckons that RJR Nabisco Inc chief Louis Gerstner , who does not have a computer industry background , is now the only front-runner not to have ruled himself out . |
17 | Injured Wednesday player-manager Trevor Francis has ruled himself out of the second round second leg leaving his side woefully short of striking cover as they attempt to recover a 3-1 first leg deficit . |
18 | He looked frightening and she had a momentary sensation of having caged herself in with an angry lion . |
19 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
20 | It had quietened itself down to a low , continuous burble . |
21 | She could have taken herself off to the local Italian with her child and a book of her own , for Kate also likes reading though her tastes are less morbific . |
22 | Because she has worked herself up into a pitiful state of fear and tension , this does not mean that her suffering is not real . |