Example sentences of "have [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Puma star , Marcelo Loffreda , thinks that ‘ Our rugby as a whole has deteriorated due to the way it has been managed by our officials and this crisis has made itself felt in the Pumas in the last two years . |
| 2 | There must be very many such incidents in which his influence has made itself felt in the West Riding ; and many staff and children who , without knowing it , have cause to be grateful for his work for them . |
| 3 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 4 | THE way things are going , any Rugby Union player who has kept himself fit during the summer , can expect a sudden telephone call inviting him to join either the Lions or England on tour . |
| 5 | Miraculously , within a couple of minutes , he 'd found himself speaking to a woman he 'd kissed goodbye in the early May of 1944 — over forty-six years ago ! |
| 6 | Though she had nothing remotely suitable with her to wear to a party , over the past hour or so , as she 'd arranged salami slices and stuffed olives and listened to Agnese and Filippo 's bubbly chatter , she 'd found herself slipping into a party mood . |
| 7 | The most I 'd allowed myself to see of the inside of that room during his three months at Sleet was himself half naked ruled into a margin of light . |
| 8 | I might well have got myself burned upon a stake , although in those days that was n't all that difficult . |
| 9 | In retrospect , it seems unsurprising that subsequent Jackson LPs should have found themselves weaving through a variety of musical styles . |
| 10 | But whereas the mum-to-be would normally have found themselves admitted for a spell in hospital for monitoring , the centre can do it in a day . |
| 11 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 12 | He had heard himself squeak in a long-outgrown pre-pubertal voice . |
| 13 | Beside him , against the wall , he had placed those things he had seen himself use in the dream — a blanket and his old porcelain water-bottle . |
| 14 | I wondered whether it was because neither of them had stirred herself to go through the contortions attendant upon attracting men , but it was n't that . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | they 've got themselves stuck on the nine o'clock appointment |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Bunny had got himself invited to a party down in Fulham at a house rented by four air hostesses who worked for Cathay Pacific . |
| 19 | McLeish made a conscientious note , feeling that he had got himself sidetracked off the more interesting question of Angela Morgan 's capital investment in Yeo Davis . |
| 20 | Perhaps he had got himself moved to the bigger town , or perhaps he had gone home to London as some of the children had done . |
| 21 | No , instead she had got herself fitted with a big , bossy secretary 's pair . |
| 22 | He had to give himself time for the thought to reach him . |
| 23 | He had found himself looking into the infinitely complex growth of stem and grass and leaf and tendril and fine twig that covered the moor in a thick springy upholstery , but also beyond this , through and beside this , into clear darkness . |
| 24 | To the south , off Java , we could detect where the mouth of the Lampong river lay , where another survivor , a fisherman , had found himself floundering in a furious inrushing sea , and had seized and ridden for miles inland what he had thought was a log , but discovered to be an equally terrified crocodile . |
| 25 | He had found himself trapped in a room with doors made up of huge , sliding slabs of rock all round it . |
| 26 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |
| 27 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |
| 28 | And then , when that clearly had n't worked , Laura had found herself lapsing into a sullen , resentful attitude , defiantly refusing to have anything to do with the beastly old woman . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She had to force herself to speak through the tightness in her throat . |