Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er they er well er what shall we say , w we we have got introduc people introduced themselves and asked who I was and who my family was and all that 's the usual thing you know . |
| 2 | For a second time du Guesclin found himself a prisoner of the English , who routed his army . |
| 3 | My concern is that you may , in b fact find yourself in a situation where you 're cementing yourself in to residential and institutional care at the expense of domiciliary care , and we 'll explain that later to you , er , as we go in . |
| 4 | Wallace 's attempts to establish himself at United have been hindered by the player 's desperation to become a Stretford End hero as Fergie explained : ‘ He tried too hard to make himself popular . |
| 5 | Once more among his Party faithful in Nuremberg in September 1938 , his proclamation contained the usual cliché about the infant Nazi Party beginning the fight against the greatest enemy threatening the German people , international Jewry , and a few days later , still at the Party Rally , he attempted to justify Germany 's attempts to rid itself of its Jews by the stereotype reference to an over-populated country . |
| 6 | By the late 1880s , however , Japan had growing interests in mainland Asia , and there was a danger that Japan 's attempts to assert herself in Korea and in Manchuria would bring her into direct confrontation with the expanding Russian empire . |
| 7 | Since it is clear that the vocation of hermit was officially recognised in the fourteenth century , the account of Richard 's pursuit of his calling points to parental opposition and possibly a reluctance on Richard 's part to commit himself to any officially supervised licensing . |
| 8 | In 1707 , for example , when one of the Duke of Montrose 's associates found himself in legal difficulties , he begged for his chiefs intervention , pointing out that ‘ my pursuer is laterlie marryed to a near relative of the Justice Clerks and My Lord Arnistons , which makes it more necessar Your Gr[ace] should interest your self to take it away by arbitratione ’ . |
| 9 | At an ARC symposium last week , convened to mark the ARC 's decision to rename itself the Agricultural and Food Research Council , delegates called for action to save the British malting industry which is hit by falling demand for Scotch whisky . |
| 10 | The name change , Avalon says , represents the company 's decision to reposition itself in the client/server market . |
| 11 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 12 | The flexibility of SCOTVEC 's provision lends itself well to European projects in many ways : |
| 13 | It is a man 's responsibility to educate himself but also to educate his wife and children . ’ |
| 14 | It is possible that for all its lofty consequences , Nietzsche 's willingness to expose himself to Meistersinger in the first place arose out of nothing loftier than social contacts : the coincidence that a sister of Wagner 's living in Leipzig was friendly with Professor Ritschl and his wife , with whom Nietzsche was on excellent terms at the time . |
| 15 | But something is still needed to explain Nietzsche 's willingness to commit himself so totally at this particular time ; and the November meeting , usually taken to be the cause , can not by itself have been sufficient . |
| 16 | ‘ It does her ego good to flirt with me ; it 's the star of the show 's privilege to indulge herself with up-and-coming actors like myself — I 'm not kidding you , ’ he had told them , ‘ she 's all over me when we film ! ’ |
| 17 | The members of the People 's Will convinced themselves that in hounding the Tsar they acted in the name of the people , but their ‘ subconscious ideal ’ , never fully achieved , ‘ was of a militant authoritarian party imposing its will on the masses . ’ |
| 18 | Somewhere in Lincolnshire , an old man 's beard entwines itself around and covers a sign reading : ‘ Danger — Unmanned Level Crossing Ahead With Freight Trains Full Of Nuclear Waste Passing Frequently . ’ |
| 19 | It 's Wright 's ambition to establish himself at Newcastle but if the future , in terms of first team football , looks bleak he will have to consider the Forest interest . |
| 20 | As late as the 1960s the translations and imitations of Robert Lowell , who had sat at Tate 's feet , were widely supposed to have been validated by Pound 's precedent in this kind of writing , whereas in truth Lowell 's Imitations allowed themselves liberties such as Pound would never have condoned . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , le Carré declares himself uninterested in any such project and declines to co-operate with either biographer . |
| 22 | This was an indispensable demonstration to the Americans of Western Europe 's readiness to help itself . |
| 23 | However in the second verse the reason in Gunn 's mind expresses itself in conflict with the attraction expressed in verse one : |
| 24 | It was the only time Oxford 's fans let themselves down , but order was soon restored . |
| 25 | British Aerospace said its advisers would have to take a detailed look at Ferranti 's books to satisfy themselves that there were no further problems before the company could proceed . |
| 26 | The draftsman must provide for the landlord to have sufficient power of inspection of the tenant 's books to satisfy himself that any information supplied by the tenant is correct . |
| 27 | Ludens had not forgotten Marcus 's words concerning himself and Irina . |
| 28 | If this passage does have central and significant relevance to contemporary working relationships , we must begin by clarifying in what ways the issues touched upon by Paul 's words address themselves to current situations and concerns . |
| 29 | Karadjordje 's attempt to impose himself on this structure by having himself declared ‘ Supreme Leader ’ created tensions which were never resolved during the nine years of his rebel regime . |
| 30 | Taken to its logical conclusion , this would present the deposition as a side-effect of the political community 's attempt to rid themselves of an unpopular group of upstarts . |