Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the superintendent cut her way through the herd of lunchtime drinkers , Dexter followed in her wake , like a driver who glues himself to the back of an ambulance careering through busy streets on an emergency call . |
| 2 | A judgement that an action is morally good is universalizable in the sense that by making such a judgement one commits oneself to holding that any relevantly similar action is morally good . |
| 3 | With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring . |
| 4 | By the time he had pressed her into a seat she had herself under more control , and was suffering acute embarrassment at her outburst . |
| 5 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 6 | ‘ Strictly for the servants — and Japanese of course , ’ added a lady who introduced herself as Mrs Fawcett , and asked anxiously , ‘ Do you play bridge , Doctor ? ’ |
| 7 | Writing out a receipt he bethought himself of the verse from the Book of Proverbs : ‘ Eishes chayil … . |
| 8 | Hilary was a boy who saw himself as a connoisseur of experience . |
| 9 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
| 10 | She had longed to be invited to a party , a longing which presented itself to her as a weakness and a wickedness , as well as an impossibility . |
| 11 | The point is that black people are not only at a disadvantage in the job market on account of their colour , they also perceive sharply that this is so and , despite Johnson 's tongue-in-cheek addendum , the consciousness of belonging to a group which feels itself to be at a disadvantage is clear enough . |
| 12 | A group which perpetuates itself by endogamous sexual reproduction usually has some perception of ethnic identity . |
| 13 | That morning an advertisement appeared in the Belfast News Letter warning that a body which described itself as the Ulster Workers Council would call a general strike if the Assembly approved the Sunningdale agreement . |
| 14 | For a moment he launched himself upon them alone , and Owen closed with him gladly against the glare , though dazzled by the flickering gleams and blinking shadows . |
| 15 | Ira Dilworth was a leader who endeared himself to all he worked with ; he was strict , but firm and fair , and he had that somewhat rare ability to see and understand another 's point of view . |
| 16 | With a yell she thrust herself at their leader . |
| 17 | After a while she brought herself under control . |
| 18 | In the warmth of Penry 's arms she came face to face with the truth , survived it , and after a while she detached herself from the comforting embrace , accepting the box of tissues Penry passed to her before resuming his chair . |
| 19 | After a while she soothed herself with her favourite fantasy ; by a succession of miracles she grew divinely tall , with long , sinewy , racehorse kind of legs and a small straight nose of classic proportions . |
| 20 | a person who contaminates himself at a site other than the original infected source |
| 21 | This case supports the view expressed in Baker v Hopkins that a person who places himself in danger may owe a duty of care to a rescuer . |
| 22 | He told them , ‘ Everyone had a codename in those days and , because of my admiration for the Irish struggle for Independence , I chose ‘ Michael ’ , a name I called myself after Michael Collins . ’ |
| 23 | He meets a character who describes herself as a ‘ girl-spy ’ . |
| 24 | Then , it was elbow-dodging for the first few hundred yards , but after a mile I found myself in front . |
| 25 | For freedom is maintained by a self-possession which extends itself to anything that threatens its identity . |
| 26 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's about a woman who liberates herself from her overpowering and dominant husband . |
| 28 | ‘ I have no interest in a woman who prefers herself to anyone else . ’ |
| 29 | How would he have felt , he sometimes asked himself , if he had married a woman who set herself against his ethnic origins ? |
| 30 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |