Example sentences of "of [noun sg] be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Ironically , my immediate reaction to the outbreak of war was to fling myself in my imagination into the Royal Ascot of all demos , Vietnam . |
2 | THE Friends of Thatcherism are working themselves into a fine old lather about the interview given by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the magazine Director . |
3 | The only way he could escape from the harsh realities of life was to lose himself in books , allowing his imagination to take over , seeing himself as the characters he read about . |
4 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
5 | The subjective conviction of heightened awareness is so treacherous that to exempt it from the critical tests of reason is to put oneself at the mercy of chance . |