Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It is also the case that , in practice , social purpose Adult Education has frequently concerned itself exclusively with the small minority of politically active , leftist members of the working class , usually , though not always , via trade union education . |
2 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
3 | Kirov did little actual business there , for he had deliberately priced himself well outside the common market . |
4 | The Prince had positioned himself just behind the six guns of the Dutch battery . |
5 | It is , as I noted at the time , a peculiar fact that most laymen who have had responsibility for the health service have interested themselves personally to a preponderant extent in the case of the mentally afflicted , both the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped . |
6 | I gather that he 's got himself together over the last 18 months and it has certainly paid off . |
7 | In fact he confirmed it so strongly that we had pulled ourselves together for a few days . |
8 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
9 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
10 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |
11 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
12 | This state she spontaneously pictured as if she had become small , about the size of a jar of marmalade ( this image appeared with a kind of authority ) and had put herself away in a small square recess in a wall , just large enough to hold her . |
13 | ‘ Idolo , my hero , I am 'ere ! ’ yelled a busty blonde through cupped hands , earning herself a wave from Juan and dirty looks from both Sharon and Mrs Juan , who had stationed themselves grimly on the halfway line , surrounded by supporters . |
14 | Theuderic I seems to have kept himself apart from the other sons of Clovis , though this could , in part , be explained by his greater age . |
15 | Rex took another step backwards and found to his unhappiness that he had backed himself neatly into a well-barred shop doorway . |
16 | Catherine Destivelle has established herself firmly on the big mountains scene again with her incredibly bold and gutsy free ascent of the Bonatti Pillar solo . |
17 | Alongside this development have appeared key products such as estate agents services and mortgage facilities , which have established themselves firmly over the same period . |