Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was attracted by an advertisement for a ‘ lab boy ’ at the then University College and soon found himself in the office of the Registrar , Mr Hedley Pickbourne . |
| 2 | ‘ And possibly kill himself in the process . ’ |
| 3 | If ministers spend this week in Blackpool trying to paint the Labour Party red again — as Kenneth Baker seems to intend — they will have missed the point and further demeaned themselves in the eyes of the public . |
| 4 | Phytoplankton have adapted to low-light conditions , and even orient themselves in the water column to bask more efficiently and store energy with which they fix carbon during darker periods . |
| 5 | She rolled over on her side , and immediately immersed herself in the book , ignoring all the disgruntled settling-in noises Sandra was making . |
| 6 | The car left the road , smashed through an 8ft garden wall and then buried itself in the house , on a busy corner of a housing estate at Matson in Gloucester . |
| 7 | A shop owner is believed to have murdered his wife and then killed himself in a double shooting . |
| 8 | Loosely linked to it were the emerging environmentalist movements ( the link being forged by a deep suspicion of advanced technology which had raised the spectre of nuclear holocaust and then manifested itself in the devastation inflicted on Vietnam ) . |
| 9 | The young CA apprentice travelled from London to Paris and then put himself in the hands of the International Brigades organisation for the final leg of his journey to Spain . |
| 10 | That evening , she waited until Charlie was in his office and then presented herself in the doorway . |
| 11 | It got to the stage where we thought we were going to have to pull the idea of actually demonstrating skiing , but I follow if you 're writing about skiing , you at least had to show the difficulty of putting the boots on , and putting the skis on and side-stepping up the hill , and then finding yourself in a snow-plough position , and then turning around . |
| 12 | In the meantime Margery has exposed her ability to think and indeed picture herself in the vulgar , crude terms of the fabliau world : ( " That shall never be that I shall do such falsity in bed or on the floor . " ) |
| 13 | As we all of us want to escape ourselves and remain ourselves , want to leave ourselves behind and take ourselves with us , want the world transfigured and yet to remain ourselves in a transfigured world . |
| 14 | The ambiguity of an elegy which laments the loss of constancy in relations between household and patron , and yet offers itself in the public market-place as a suit for favour , aptly characterizes the circumstances of Emilia Lanier 's life . |
| 15 | It allowed him to take words that already existed and yet express himself in a completely new way . |
| 16 | It allowed him to take words that already existed and yet express himself in a completely new way . |
| 17 | If you imagine suddenly and unexpectedly finding yourself in an almost vertical dive facing the ground , it is easy to understand why so many pilots fail to make a movement forward on the stick to help the glider unstall itself . |
| 18 | Readers became familiar with their Doppelgangers , as if they had turned a corner and unexpectedly confronted themselves in a mirror . |