Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Monsieur Gaston concerned himself with other things . ’ |
| 2 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 3 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 4 | Hauser prided himself on his ability to manipulate human beings . |
| 5 | Sergeant Henley prided herself on her power to prise out information by a mixture of persuasion and light bullying like the icing on a cake , and although this had never worked particularly well with Roxie in the past , this was no reason not to try it now . |
| 6 | But Marcus got himself into trouble , silly boy . |
| 7 | With the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist in Bosnia , Germany found itself at war with its trade competitors in the west , and at war with its nationalist rivals and its potential empire in the east . |
| 8 | I am certain Lorentz and Fitzgerald regarded themselves as realists , interpreting the experiment on the speed of light in terms of Newtonian ideas of absolute space and absolute time . |
| 9 | For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates . |
| 10 | In France , Bernard found himself with more time than he had ever been used to in his working life ; after his hour-long morning telephone call to John James the day stretched ahead . |
| 11 | Mr Taylor found himself under attack from members of his own party after he was first selected to stand.It blew up into a national row over allegations of racism before he was confirmed as candidate . |
| 12 | Nizan found himself in a curiously paradoxical situation at this juncture . |
| 13 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 14 | This led to the murder of a shop owner and the next thing that happened , was , Imamu found himself in court on trial for a murder he had not committed . |
| 15 | Mokosh changed herself into a raven and flew back with the turtle-dove to perch on the ridge of the wooden fort . |
| 16 | At a symbolic rally , held on May 23 in the capital San Salvador , the FMLN transformed itself into a political party . |
| 17 | The first attempt to penetrate the Latin American market was made in the early 1930s , when Moscow found itself with a surplus of oil in a world marketing network tightly controlled by the major multi-nationals . |
| 18 | In war , more common as the Dukes of Normandy used their English kingship to press their rather doubtful claims to the French throne , Sussex found itself in the front line , convenient both for intended invasions and retaliatory expeditions by licensed French pirates . |
| 19 | ‘ Ice ? ’ he enquired , as he reached for a glass and Shiona seated herself in one of the armchairs . |
| 20 | WHEN Ringo Starr announced himself in Cancun , Mexico , he was wined and dined , chauffered and given a week of radio interviews . |
| 21 | His last book , Antonietta , published in 1991 , tells the story of a Stradivarius violin , and Hersey inserted himself as a character . |
| 22 | Bernice lowered herself into the hole . |
| 23 | Roberts described himself as ‘ the enfant terrible of British ufology . |
| 24 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 25 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 26 | On the set , Dustin cast himself as the sensible person , whereas Mia was busy ‘ talking to the spirit of Mozart ’ , perhaps under the influence of André Previn ( still married to Dory Previn ) , the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra , with whom she had recently fallen in love . |
| 27 | The Webbs devoted themselves to pressing these ideas upon leading politicians and civil servants . |
| 28 | Eye surgeons immediately accepted the new compound , and Alcon found itself with a worldwide monopoly . |
| 29 | Edrich and Close soon went , and on two occasions Roberts found himself on a hat-trick ; the second time , Selvey edged to Greenidge at slip — and he dropped morning was fine and only one more run was added . |
| 30 | Everyone started talking at once , and Mr Appin found himself in a storm of angry questions . |