Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , sit yerself down Katie . |
| 2 | Quickly taking stock of the atmosphere , Pétain remarked icily to Serrigny : ‘ In these circumstances we shall install ourselves at Souilly , where I hope we may find a little more calm . ’ |
| 3 | With still hours to go before the match we had another little walk about , somehow we found ourselves on Park Lane . |
| 4 | The Backs always attracted me , even in a winter fog , and we eventually found ourselves in King 's College Chapel for what I think must have been the very first of the annual carol concerts . |
| 5 | ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’ |
| 6 | ONE of this paper 's less chivalrous columnists ( a particularly poisonous character called Gadfly , inhabiting later editions only ) had cause last year to launch himself at Bishop Auckland Tory candidate David Williamson . |
| 7 | But he wanted to assure them of a more overpowering reason : he needed to re-establish himself on his home ground as firmly and quickly as possible in order to launch himself on Mary . |
| 8 | Bert , because he wanted to reinstate himself with Pat , took command and , his white teeth showing in the thickets of his beard while he offered a steady , responsible , forceful smile said , " I can appreciate the comrades ' reservations . |
| 9 | After these , Dr Rogers took the assembled company completely by surprise by peeling off his false beard and revealing himself as Alan Abel , hoaxer extraordinary . |
| 10 | We end up with the Shakespeare we knew savaged and refashioned in the Laureate 's own image with ‘ an almost pathological psychic alienation from the culture within which his plays triumphed ’ : the Blackamoor , the naked , essential man , hovelled with swine , revealing himself to Lear and to Timon in their extremity . |
| 11 | Hewlett , author of The Queen 's Quair , brings to mind another writer who had similarly concerned himself with Mary Queen of Scots ( ‘ La Stuarda ’ ) — that is to say , Swinburne in his Mary Stuart . |
| 12 | Wyllie suddenly found himself without Brewer 's expertise , and Wyllis was incandescent with rage when a medical panel ruled Brewer out of the World Cup campaign . |
| 13 | Soapy walked away from Broadway and soon he found himself on Sixth Avenue . |
| 14 | One day he found himself at Market Harborough but with no idea where he was going . |
| 15 | By instinct rather than design he found himself at Saint Winifred 's altar , and kneeled to approach her , his creaky knees settling gingerly on the lowest step of her elevated place . |
| 16 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |
| 17 | So it was with no plans for the future that Troy found himself at Greenhill fair , dangerously close to Weatherbury . |
| 18 | At 20 , he found himself in Paris heading Lanvin 's millinery department . |
| 19 | George found himself in Paddington and smiled . |
| 20 | How far this development in Pissarro 's art depended upon the example of Monet is uncertain but it can be remembered that , after initial scepticism , he commented favourably upon the ‘ Haystacks ’ series and found himself in Rouen in the spring of 1896 , several months after Monet 's canvases of the Cathedral had been exhibited at Durand-Ruel 's gallery . |
| 21 | Angry Jemson suffered the embarrassment of coming on as substitute and then being substituted himself at Carrow Road . |
| 22 | For example , one person 's faith may be a genuine trust in God but also a trust in certain Christian friends , while another person has truly committed himself to God and also to the care of a Christian community . |
| 23 | He then entered himself at Lincoln 's Inn , and , after being called to the bar in 1789 , began to practise on the northern circuit . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | James , who has still to keep a clean sheet , would be disappointed to be overlooked , but he has the confidence and the talent to establish himself at Anfield . |
| 26 | James , who has still to keep a clean sheet , would be disappointed to be overlooked , but he has the confidence and the talent to establish himself at Anfield . |
| 27 | Thomas was signed from Spurs last year for £500,000 , but has not been able to establish himself at Upton Park . |
| 28 | At 31 , Tamworth-born Coton is running out of time to establish himself with England . |
| 29 | For reasons which can only be guessed at he decided to establish himself near Keswick in Cumberland and returned in the following year with Hans Loner , a relative by marriage , and twelve German workers , to set up works and to prospect more fully . |
| 30 | Sunderland teenager Michael Gray needed just 44 seconds to establish himself in Roker Park folklore during their 2-1 defeat of Barnsley . |