Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hard-faced , eclectic and distinctly dance-friendly , DF 118 are Pop Will Eat Itself on bad drugs , Big Audio Dynamite with a ring of low-rent authenticity and much more besides . |
| 2 | SWEET JESUS : ‘ Albino Ballerina ’ / ‘ Your Baby Loves Me ’ West Midlands-based glamour pop four-piece follow their recent UK support spots with Pop Will Eat Itself with a double A-side |
| 3 | Territorials surround themselves with briefcases , calendars , and large bushy plants . |
| 4 | This year 's event attracted a number of scholarships from the Volvo Tour itself to manufacturers such as Wilson and Dunlop Slazenger and Tour sponsors like Diners Club and Hewlett Packard . |
| 5 | Notably , Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts play themselves in some of the most crucial scenes . |
| 6 | Go on Richard help yourself to a drink . |
| 7 | The McCullochs turned into their cottage with a brief good-night and Cameron , James , and Allan let themselves into the tall , silent house along the road . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , at Scone on the 5th February 1284 , Alexander made all the estates of Scotland bind themselves by oath to acknowledge the Maid of Norway as his heir , failing any children Alexander might have in the future . |
| 9 | Bakers in England content themselves with Hot Cross Buns at Easter . |
| 10 | Each year groups from mainland Spain find themselves at the house of the White Dove , a name symbolic of the peace and comfort which they experience through his caring approach . |
| 11 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 12 | The United Kingdom will continue to develop our good relations with the Soviet Union and its republics , and to encourage their integration into the world economy ; and will work to help Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania re-establish themselves in the international community . |
| 13 | [ PAMELA and BELVILLE dress themselves for the Masquerade ; PAMELA as a Puritan girl and BELVILLE as a Spanish nobleman . |
| 14 | DEL Amitri see themselves as a laid-back , fashionably unfashionable rock group . |
| 15 | Nicky and Enya pride themselves on their rows ; ‘ I was basically just left to concentrate on music , ’ says Enya . |
| 16 | Palatine consider themselves to be good employers , though their attitudes and practices might be thought to be slightly old-fashioned and paternalistic in that there is no measure of staff performance or formal mechanisms or procedures for staff management . |
| 17 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 18 | Scholes is not a Marxist , but his American cultural populism has affinities with recent Marxist writing ; at the same time , Hirsch and Scholes find themselves in unexpected agreement . |
| 19 | Although Rein and Miller describe themselves as ‘ normative egalitarians ’ , any of the above positions may not be close to the view of the majority of economists or , more importantly , of the public at large . |
| 20 | The division between labour and capital was therefore a nationalist and ethnic one rather than a class one , even though Zuwaya cast themselves in the role of capitalist entrepreneurs , for example when they defended free markets against state-controlled ones . |
| 21 | Although both James and Miller concern themselves with the effects of attaching verbal responses to the cues to be discriminated , there is no reason to restrict the analysis they offer to such responses . |
| 22 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 23 | A day later , Corbett sat on the edge of his own bed in Leighton Manor watching Maeve busy herself round the room . |
| 24 | That J&F Johnston find themselves in the Middle East at all is a testament to the good works of Scottish Trade International , the joint Scottish Enterprise/Scottish Office agency . |
| 25 | But until they get any money back , the Tysons find themselves in the position of the gambler who gambled all and lost . |
| 26 | The peacekeepers in New York pride themselves on a brand-new 24-hour operations room . |
| 27 | Summit Brass knock out the fanfare dramatically enough , but the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies excel themselves in a completely idiomatic and superbly recorded performance of Copland 's Ballet Suite — for which they won a Grammy award on its original release . |
| 28 | In Paris he found that the lecturers did not as in Edinburgh confine themselves to one hour , but generally took an hour and a half or two hours ; but he found his time there very valuable . |
| 29 | They saw James Lambert push himself to his feet , heard his voice strained and husky say : |
| 30 | When Winston Smith and O'Brien pledge themselves to a revolution against dictatorship , the toast is not to the future but to the past which , as O'Brien puts it with mock gravity , is ‘ more important ’ . |