Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal . |
| 2 | That 's why they are determined to triumph on Tuesday and lift themselves into a respectable position in Group Three from which the favourites to qualify are Spain , Denmark and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 3 | Eastwood played a Secret Service agent , Frank Horrigan , who froze when the first shot was fired that day in Texas and blamed himself for JFK 's death . |
| 4 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 5 | ALISTAIR CAMPBELL roared past 500 runs on Saturday and put himself firmly on course for the magical 1,000 mark . |
| 6 | Subject to invasions and to the steady and relentless pressure to Germanise or Polonise themselves they had watched their language and culture dwindle away as the other Pomeranian cultures had done before them . |
| 7 | ‘ Come along in Katie and sit yourself by the fire . |
| 8 | Once the holiday was over , George decided that he would ride over to Skiplam and satisfy himself that all was well with his brother . |
| 9 | The people who wrote the original GLC-funded pre-feasibility study — Chris Walsh , Ben Lowe , Mike Power , Liz Cooper and Kit Sadgrove — met in a flat near Kings Cross and formed themselves , with the addition of five others , all friends , into the Founders ' Trust . |
| 10 | My wife is English and four of my children live and work in the south of England and consider themselves to be English . |
| 11 | Moreover , at some point — probably on Ecgfrith 's death — Eadberht Praen , recently an exile at the court of Charlemagne , returned to England and established himself as king in Kent ( ASC A , s.a. 794 ) , his grip on the kingdom underlined by the minting of his own coins at Canterbury . |
| 12 | Why do you stay in Sècheron and deny yourself the pleasures of Geneva ? ’ |
| 13 | In New York , as a student at the Juilliard School , Kennedy first played jazz violin with Stephane Grappelli and liberated himself , he says . |
| 14 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 15 | All these images together are used when Aragorn draws Andúril and declares himself to Éomer ( II , 36 ) : |
| 16 | ‘ Come in , Mr Brayton and sit yourself down . ’ |
| 17 | She took a taxi to the family home in Surry Hills and let herself into the house which was unoccupied . |
| 18 | Thus Henry kept Anjou and found himself ruler of an immense empire stretching all the way from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees . |
| 19 | I went to Miami and booked myself aboard a late-night Pan American jumbo jet to Panama City , arriving shortly before dawn in the pullulating and insufferably hot shanty-capital sprawling beside that most famous of all entrances to the world 's greatest of seas . |
| 20 | While the Greed Is Good League threatens to fall apart — and who cares ? — while England 's team is outplayed in Spain , cricket 's selectors drop David Gower and hurl themselves into a whirlpool of crazy contradictions . |
| 21 | He should have pitched her into Foxton Mire and saved himself a lot of trouble . |
| 22 | When Blanche 's trunk has arrived Stanley looks through it to try to prove to Stella that Blanche has sold Belle Reve and bought herself pearls and diamonds and a huge selection of clothes . |
| 23 | Stay in Nicosia and hold yourself ready . |
| 24 | The European Commission wants to change the 1958 Euratom Treaty to end trade barriers within the EEC and to establish itself as a watchdog on deals between member countries and outsiders . |
| 25 | Hussa and the boy 's sister soon arrived from Al Ain and installed themselves in the adjoining bedrooms . |
| 26 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 27 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 28 | You must also buy a copy of Debrett and familiarize yourself with the names of those people in society we hope will become our clients . |
| 29 | ‘ Derrick and I went to Blackpool and booked ourselves into a hotel , ’ she recalls . |
| 30 | Up to winning ‘ New Faces ’ , you 'd only been as far as the Isle of Man and considered yourself well-travelled . ) |