Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one night in an alleyway he witnesses a murder and finds himself lumbered with the dead man 's child . |
| 2 | Jim Bob , thousands of miles from home , still nurturing that Fagin-style goatee , sits backstage at Boston 's Paradise Club and allows himself a crooked smirk . |
| 3 | Dominique uncoils herself from the driving seat and extracts herself elegantly . |
| 4 | Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind . |
| 5 | If Gedge inadvertently adopts a rockist pose , he instantly recognises the irony and sends himself up . |
| 6 | Well if he keeps , if he looks after the car and keeps himself right och it 'll be okay but if he 's gon na mess about and wreck the car well he 's he 's no way of getting to work . |
| 7 | It was painful , beautiful and obscure , a not uncommon state of affairs when the creator also directs , gives a running commentary on the action and writes himself into the story at the end . |
| 8 | Starved of emotional nourishment from that quarter , the daughter is brittle and neurotic and , when her boyfriend leaves her for another woman , she takes umbrage , haunts the new love-nest night and day , lets down tyres , makes abusive phone calls and eventually throws a stone through a window and gets herself arrested . |
| 9 | When injured it becomes a less efficient hunting machine and puts itself in considerable danger . |
| 10 | When a complete stranger breaks into YOUR home and helps himself to YOUR most valued possessions — its not just the expense that hurts . |
| 11 | The American mink normally shuns human settlement and confines itself to natural , or at least loosely managed , environs . |
| 12 | So , like Prince Charles and thousands of less well known amateur artists , Kylie now sits at her easel and loses herself in another world . |
| 13 | Anyway he is 24 , is a good ball winner and throws himself around a bit . |
| 14 | An old man dressed in traditional clothes appears and , facing the rock , says a prayer and prostrates himself . |
| 15 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 16 | Here too he has been most thoroughly tested , and the fact that Padre Martini , the idol of the Italians , speaks of him with great admiration and has himself set him all the tests , has increased his reputation all over Italy . |
| 17 | In some cases , the author seeks to disguise his presence and distances himself from the narrative by employing techniques such as interior monologue , dialogue and intermediaries , which simultaneously highlight the subjective nature of the material presented and create the impression of an autonomous narration . |
| 18 | This messenger RNA ( mRNA ) leaves the nucleus , enters the cytoplasm and attaches itself to the ribosome . |
| 19 | ‘ ( 1 ) A party to a contract ‘ deals as consumer ’ in relation to another party if — ; ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) … the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 20 | A party to a contract " deals as a consumer " in relation to another party if — ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act [ ie other contracts of supply ] the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 21 | Section 12(1) of UCTA 1977 provides as follows : 12 – ( 1 ) A party to a contract " deals as consumer " in relation to another party if ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act , the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 22 | He is suffering from the consequences of this accident and reproaches himself for the distress the family of the child is being put through . |
| 23 | A split second latter he claps his hand to his eye and wipes himself . |
| 24 | For this kind of disproportionality only appears if an over-production of means of production has taken place and manifests itself externally as an over-production of means of consumption . |
| 25 | It then finds a hiding place and attaches itself to a branch with silk . |
| 26 | The things to avoid are principally a sort of subterranean trembling that begins in the body and communicates itself to your vocal chords and even , on occasion , to the chair in which you are sitting , and those long swallows , which you never seem to do at any other time but now occur unstoppably at the wrong point of emphasis in the sentence . |
| 27 | The time might come when she arranges a small dinner party , produces an ‘ impossible ’ soufflé or a perfect pavlova and surprises herself even more than she surprises her friends . |
| 28 | She follows me into the room and plants herself square in the middle of one of the sofas , leaving me to pace back and forth across the thick carpet while I deliver my diatribe . |
| 29 | Teddy shows no expression , he simply walks across the room and makes himself an instant coffee . |
| 30 | Power is not something that is possessed such as blue eyes or red hair but manifests itself in terms of relations with others . |