Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 2 | She 's hung herself ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Your toilet — bathroom , I mean — she 's locked herself in . |
| 4 | Since then , she 's kept herself to herself . ’ |
| 5 | Now it 's no longer the same — for her , it 's all over ; she 's worn herself out and she 's through with us , we remind her too much of her . |
| 6 | ‘ If she 's involved herself we 've tipped her off . |
| 7 | She 's brainwashed herself into believing otherwise , ’ he declared with conviction . |
| 8 | ‘ She 's a lovely kid and I think she 's handled herself extremely well for someone of her age . |
| 9 | She 's established herself as a writer with award winning novels including ’ I 'm the King of the Castle ’ and ’ Woman in Black ’ but Mrs de Winter has come in for criticism . |
| 10 | ‘ She says not to worry , she 's found herself some work . ’ |
| 11 | Marie squints like she 's hurt herself and squats down by the chair . |
| 12 | She 's forgotten herself ; has used her injured arm . |
| 13 | ‘ Please take notice that I sometimes need to be the real me ’ , is what she seems to be really saying through the way she 's portrayed herself . ’ |
| 14 | And it 's proved itself on many expeditions — you could live in it for weeks . |
| 15 | During that time it 's proved itself an able ambassador for Britain , at peace and at war . |
| 16 | That long-anticipated non-profit X trade association , the X Industry Association , brainchild of The X Business Group , is getting off the ground : it 's picked itself a chairman in David Harris of Adobe Systems Inc and the board includes Peter Winston of Xhibition , Peter Shaw of AGE Logic Inc , Stephen King of Tektronix , Brian Fitzgerald of Digital Equipment Corp and Michael Harrigan of Network Computing Devices Inc and Anil Malhotra of IXI Ltd ; members include Applied Digital Data Systems , Grafpoint , Hummingbird , Kinesix , Non Standard Logics , Omron , Shographics , TeleSoft , Visual Edge and Walker , Richer & Quinn ; the new body is to market , promote and educate in the name of X , leaving the X Consortium , while it still exists , to grapple with the technical issues . |
| 17 | ‘ Sheer luck — it 's tagged itself with one of these . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It seems he 's elevated himself into the big league these past four years . |
| 19 | ‘ There you are , you see , ’ he exclaimed in a shrill voice , ‘ he 's overtaxed himself ! |
| 20 | Glenn Hoddle wo n't be naming his side , until he 's given himself a fitness test on a calf strain . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's appointed himself to the temporary monitoring team . |
| 22 | Fraser 's had two thousand pounds in cash and been allowed lots of time by the airforce , and the army gave him a radio used in the Falklands — the rest he 's done himself with a mortgage |
| 23 | Apparently his ‘ lover ’ , the erstwhile Angel of Charles , Miss Farrah Fawcett , has confided in a ‘ pal ’ : ‘ I 'm ashamed of the way he 's let himself go . |
| 24 | Why should I wish the lad any worse harm than he 's let himself in for already ? ’ |
| 25 | Thistle 's early season promise has evaporated , and debutant Julian Broddle must be wondering what he 's let himself in for . |
| 26 | ‘ But I 'm afraid he 's hurt himself . ’ |
| 27 | Before we get it fingerprinted , which I suspect will be a waste of time , and tested for blood , which wo n't be , please would you nip down and winkle out Norman Pinder from wherever he 's parked himself ? |
| 28 | Clough added : ‘ He 's earned himself a contract not because of how well he has done for us , but because I think he can carry on after 32 . ’ |