Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his ecstasy , the worshipper saw himself as a satyr and " as a satyr , in turn , he saw his god " . |
| 2 | The wizard pulled himself across the floor , painfully , and whispered , ‘ What the hell was that ? ’ |
| 3 | In winter the chestnut-seller installed himself at the edge of the market . |
| 4 | The gang helped themselves to a video , leather jacket , private letters plus bits and pieces to the tune of £1,000 before fleeing . |
| 5 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 6 | The mandarin excused himself with a nervous smile and moved quickly away across the antechamber to talk with a group of French officials . |
| 7 | What passed for reality on the discworld reasserted itself with a rush of sound . |
| 8 | The mathematician propelled himself towards the prone figure some yards away . |
| 9 | Away from the island the wind converted itself into a westerly and we were surfing at ten knots even with two slabs in the main and the genoa furled to almost nothing . |
| 10 | The DUC disassociated itself from the arson and monkeywrenching , and remained independent of the and-nuclear movement . |
| 11 | He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him . |
| 12 | The barman reinstalled himself behind the jump and enquired after my pleasure . |
| 13 | The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race . |
| 14 | Thus it was that at 6 30 the same barely-to-bed morning the column found itself outside the newsagent 's in Aycliffe , joined shortly afterwards by the ebullient Edgar . |
| 15 | The image of ‘ basket power ’ possessed by women cooperators was a formidable and persistent one , and the guild applied itself to the task of arousing women to a sense of this leverage . |
| 16 | The girl pulled herself from the mattress and stood with one hand on her hip , in an aggressive pose . |
| 17 | The planners , the Planning Committee , and the Council found themselves at the centre of the great deal of public agitation in which the reputation of the Council sank to a very low level . |
| 18 | In the Manse the household occupied themselves with the task of preparing a feast fit for the assembled lords . |
| 19 | Coun Brady said his action would be similar to that taken after MP Douglas Fairbairn 's outburst at the weekend and said the committee disassociated itself with the remarks . |
| 20 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 21 | The should of slow labouring footsteps could be heard moving along the first-floor landing as the boy threw himself into the kitchen and slammed the door behind him . |
| 22 | The old man swayed gently on his haunches , then , as the boy threw himself to the left , moved effortlessly across , fending off the child with his palms , using the least force possible to achieve his end . |
| 23 | As a result , almost as soon as Israel tried to suppress the Uprising with curfews , blockades and violent policing , the community organized itself along the lines the popular movement had already prescribed . |
| 24 | The coroner busied himself around the house . |
| 25 | The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona . |
| 26 | Hiding at ninth on the bill , beneath stars like Wet Wet Wet and The Christians , the band found themselves on a remake of The Beatles ' ‘ Sergeant Pepper ’ , called , with a high degree of originality , ‘ Sergeant Pepper Knew My Father ’ . |
| 27 | Then the leader introduced himself as an inspector from the Department of Health , and his colleague as from Trade and Industry . |
| 28 | Through this attempt the Restoration lent itself to a repetition of the earlier struggle between King and Commons . |
| 29 | In Prussia the crisis manifested itself in a variety of ways . |
| 30 | When the plaintiff presented himself at the theatre , the defendant , who was X 's servant and manager of the theatre , detected the plaintiff and refused to admit him . |