Example sentences of "was [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 2 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |
| 3 | Hands was pulling himself up among the sails now , the knife between his teeth . |
| 4 | He was sending himself up to a degree , but it does n't matter . |
| 5 | It sounded as if Irina was setting herself up for the planned return to Moscow , ahead of the Brückner lawyers . |
| 6 | Miss Jarman was heaving herself out of the carriage with the help of the crabbed old driver ; marching up the steps and rapping on the front door shouting : |
| 7 | She was working herself back into a rage . |
| 8 | When Vera Czermak found that her husband had been unfaithful , her first thought was to throw herself out of the window of their third-floor flat in Prague and put an end to her misery . |