Example sentences of "the [noun] [was/were] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , it ended just as the Giants were putting themselves into the play-off hunt with a 27–7 victory over the Green Bay Packers for their third straight win . |
| 2 | The alienation of king and archbishop gave added significance to long-standing grievances at a time when by protecting Eardwulf 's enemies the archbishop was allying himself against the king . |
| 3 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 4 | He decided that the only way to avoid spending the rest of his life in the workhouse was to exhibit himself as a freak , and so he offered himself to Sam Torr , who ran a music-hall , the Gaiety Palace of Varieties . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 6 | But the means by which the Futurists were expressing themselves at this point were largely borrowed from the Cubists , and occasionally in some less well-informed criticism , the two terms became synonymous . |
| 7 | The rain was smashing itself into a two-foot-high mist above the roadway as Maxim pulled up outside Billy Dann 's house . |
| 8 | As he reached the middle of the trough , the water was forcing itself over his shoulders . |
| 9 | Two young women were in the room ; one was reading a magazine , the other was stuffing herself into a tight corset of black vinyl that appeared to be a part of a stylised nun 's costume . |
| 10 | The theremin was playing itself with passion , with feeling . |
| 11 | ‘ Ca n't you leave us alone now ? ’ he pleaded and Wexford felt impotently that once again the man was enclosing himself within the unimpregnable defence of grief . |
| 12 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 13 | The incident precipitated three days of violence and looting that tarnished Miami 's reputation at a time when the city was preening itself for one of America 's premier sporting events , the Super Bowl . |
| 14 | In effect the Berlin banks who loaned money to the Junkers were paying themselves through an agricultural clearing house in East Prussia . |
| 15 | ‘ Up to that point , all I was interested in was relieving myself any way I could , and the women were throwing themselves at me and it was great , it was pleasurable , no problem . |
| 16 | The Smiths were priming themselves for a spell in the top five . |
| 17 | If the bird were dashing itself against the bars , feathers flying , then the similarities to human suffering would arouse impulses to assist , even to release it , like the giraffe . |
| 18 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |
| 19 | Interestingly enough Larry Witty , the General Secretary of the Labour Party , said at last year 's Labour Party Conference that if it had not been for the steadily , steady influence of the unions during the eighties , when the Party was tearing itself in two , we would not have a Labour Party today . |