Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 After much deliberation and in great sorrow , the family of Don Antonio Beatillo , learned laureate and doctor , glory of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Naples , have resolved themselves to appeal against the last will and testament of their beloved and revered father , made in January last year , as being composed by the deceased when not in his right mind . ’
2 ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder .
3 From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it .
4 Although the " offices " might be peripatetic , going outside Rome with the pope , and although the pope might still play a dominant personal part , only a total reversal of policy — an annihilation of the authority the papacy had set itself to achieve during the previous 150 years — could have stemmed the march towards authority and central administrative offices .
5 I have a list here of people in my particular part of the profession who have pledged themselves to assist with the great drive forward for the seventy fifth anniversary .
6 Trends have since changed , however , and Mudhoney have forced themselves to jump on the major label bandwagon , if only to survive .
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