Example sentences of "and [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combination has impelled manufacturing and service enterprises in almost all sectors to search for larger markets abroad , and to establish themselves there in an ‘ insider position ’ ( Best , 1990 : p. 260 ; Milner and Yoffie , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 3 | Shiona felt her heart perform a triple somersault and lodge itself somewhere in the region of her throat . |
| 4 | Clara 's contingent sized up the situation in a disappointed trice , and hunched itself together in a corner to confront the disorderly scene by a solid front of backs . |
| 5 | And sings himself home in a Crack . |
| 6 | Slowly Georg got out of the van , looked around to make sure there was no-one who knew him , then he walked quickly across to the station restaurant , entered , and hid himself quickly in a booth that had a view of the rails . |
| 7 | I heard no more of the debate and to the astonishment of my fellow delegates I stormed out of the auditorium and locked myself away in the Ladies to howl out my rage , alone . |
| 8 | She followed into my office and arranged herself neatly in a straight-backed chair , notebook open and sharp pencil ready poised for an attack on the clean white pages . |
| 9 | Newly appointed as Duke of Swabia , Frederick Barbarossa had an opportunity to mix with other nobles , and acquitted himself well in the crusade . |
| 10 | Sitting where he was , a bullet fired into the back of his neck might pass through and embed itself somewhere in the brickwork above the stove . |
| 11 | As the oxygen is bound the iron shrinks in size and buries itself further in the porphyrin . |
| 12 | In those early pre-TV Saturday afternoon matinee days at the Ideal cinema in Carrickfergus , only two movies broke the mould for me and lodged themselves forever in the imagination : The Wizard of Oz and Darby O'Gill and the Little People . |
| 13 | She went and fetched out the folded garments for him , and went about her business at the clay oven outside while he stripped and dressed himself again in the good Welsh clothes that had been made for him . |
| 14 | ‘ He got a gun and shot himself right in the head . ’ |
| 15 | Christie raced and conducted himself afterwards in a way of which we can all be proud — and , I do n't really believe he 'll drag down the relay team . |
| 16 | Within moments I had decided to strip her to her expensive banker 's underclothing , lash her to a Quattrocento day-bed with fur-lined leather manacles , and whip her with unimaginable delicacy until she handed over a full power of attorney and yielded herself totally in a frenzy of self-abnegation . |