Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing ourselves as less important than anyone else , or less worthy or deserving than others , is just another form of arrogance , disguised as humility or neurosis . |
| 2 | It was essential that we become more professional in our outlook and make ourselves more financially viable . |
| 3 | We sold ourselves short then but we believe we have the ability and the temperament to cope on Sunday . ’ |
| 4 | Before we turn to that material we must look at the course the narrative has taken since the beginning of Genesis , reminding ourselves yet again of familiar events , and skimming through areas we have not looked at so far . |
| 5 | But when curiosity got the better of us we found ourselves almost immediately drawn to a highland community where , like a long-awaiting gift , we were invited to build a house for about a thousand pounds on a verdant piece of property . |
| 6 | He has let himself down badly . |
| 7 | He was delighted to find himself not merely a Lord 24 years ago , but in possession of the regular expenses his status brings him . |
| 8 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed in August . |
| 9 | Sandford , a lawyer before becoming the youngest chief executive in local government , was upset when his name was leaked to the press , and Taylor is incensed to find himself suddenly only a contender for a job to which he was appointed by the League 's president , Bill Fox , in August . |
| 10 | And the Cid Ruydiez did so well , and made such mortality among the Moors , that the blood ran from his wrist to his elbow ! great pleasure had he in his horse Bavieca that day , to find himself so well mounted . |
| 11 | He made the mistake of following the thread of foaming water with his eyes , and jerked himself back just in time . |
| 12 | He inadvisedly tried to launch himself very briefly in Hollywood . |
| 13 | The bird symbolising the yearning for freedom man has , his desire to pull himself up above and beyond the limits and discomforts of his own restricted world . |
| 14 | Tutilo hovered in the background , keeping himself modestly apart while his betters conferred . |
| 15 | De Gaulle used the Interministerial Councils in order to inform himself more fully on important issues or to give momentum to policies that he favoured . |
| 16 | Layton 's ebullience was on a par with Ezra Pound 's ‘ showmanship ’ , and Leonard now found himself not so very far from where the great revolutionary poet ( of Imagism , Vortism etc. ) was actually incarcerated . |
| 17 | And Rex found himself once more alone in the big bright room . |
| 18 | Not exactly lazy — although that is how he describes himself-as a delegator and motivator he had always excelled and now found himself less directly occupied . |
| 19 | He found himself totally alone , with a water bottle , a compass , a revolver and no food . |
| 20 | A Kentish farm-labourer , writing from New Zealand , thanked the farmers for having driven him out by a lockout of the labourers ' union , since he now found himself so much better off : he would not have thought of going otherwise . |
| 21 | During 1893 Captain Sykes became Chairman of Governors , and found himself almost immediately contributing to the " substantial repairs " needed to the buildings . |
| 22 | The First Deputy Prime Minister 's husband replied in his standard way , larding his lengthy answer with the typical verbiage of the langue de bois : ‘ I will answer you starting with a more general presentation of the mechanism of societal government , ’ he began , before launching himself on about ten minutes ' worth of the following : ‘ A principle of collective leadership operates in the Romanian socialist society … |
| 23 | The Doctor drew himself up angrily . |
| 24 | He paused and drew himself up proudly to his full height again . |
| 25 | Charlie drew himself up proudly . |
| 26 | Benjamin drew himself up so his shoulders were no longer stooped . |
| 27 | But the man who desires to know himself more completely — however strange and confusing his discoveries may be — he is drawn further within until he finds in the texts a mirror of his own complexity . |
| 28 | As Gabriel took his seat at the top of the pageant , hidden by a wooden cloud , Garvey robed himself down below in the Mason 's wedding robe , and Izzie emerged from nowhere to mend the tear in the shoulder-seam . |
| 29 | And he 's sort of picked himself up now , and he 's more , where I 'm getting involved . |
| 30 | But Faye only nodded , and when Tom let himself out gently without saying anything further , the two women remained silent as well . |