Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A business that you may never have considered yourself involved in ; publishing . |
| 2 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 3 | We may , indeed we have not , always made ourselves popular in arguing for reform of humanitarian aid system but it has certainly been effective and we are never , but never , ignored . |
| 4 | The very latest Cairo tittle-tattle is that President Hosni Mubarak ( who has a reputation for honesty ) has made himself rich by taking a cut from every barrel of oil exported . |
| 5 | Benjamin was clearly an ambitious and careful man , neither dissolute nor spendthrift , and was probably very conservative in every way ; he had made himself respectable in Victorian terms , generating enough of a cash surplus by a lifetime of hard work and good fortune to build up that stock of 3 per cent Bank Annuities and accumulate a healthy balance with the London Provident Savings Bank . |
| 6 | Jules had tactfully made himself scarce on the pretext of work to be done at the new salon and now , two days after his visit to Maythorpe House , Harry was at last able to unburden himself . |
| 7 | However , the great Wallaby no.8 , Tim Gavin , after missing the World Cup — and being sorely missed there — has recovered and made himself available for selection . |
| 8 | I wish that the hon. Gentleman had made himself familiar with the two judgments in the case — those of Mr. Justice Simon Brown and of the Master of the Rolls . |
| 9 | Nigel had once made himself unpopular at the office by writing in his column that women past thirty should shoot themselves . |
| 10 | To cope with the aftershock , Mr Perez has made himself unpopular by bringing in painful economic reforms . |
| 11 | Whereas , even if nothing goes wrong at the weekend , Mr Smith will have made himself miserable for days in advance . |
| 12 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |
| 13 | Mrs Orton took it upon herself , watching him pick at a little heap of sprouts and chestnut , to observe that he had very likely made himself ill with being faddy . |
| 14 | In any case , by strengthening his position abroad , Rank had made himself unassailable at home . |
| 15 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 16 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
| 17 | Almost as if , having proclaimed himself paralytic in court , he was setting about proving it over and over again . |
| 18 | Taylor , who had proclaimed himself head of state in August , claimed that his NPFL forces — thought to number 15,000 — controlled 90 per cent of Liberia , including the second port , Buchanan , and most of the territory containing Liberia 's agricultural , mineral and industrial resources . |
| 19 | Harry was still gazing after her , struggling to make sense of what had happened , when Cunningham , who had positioned himself next to him , said : ‘ Like a gazelle , eh ? ’ |
| 20 | By waiting so long , it has made itself vulnerable to a systemic collapse . |
| 21 | Apple has made itself unpopular by suing Digital Research , MicroSoft and Hewlett-Packard to protect the ‘ look and feel ’ of the Apple Macintosh graphical user interface . |
| 22 | Then the goat had made itself evident in the warm air . |
| 23 | Maggie had made herself useful to her stepmother by running the house , and yet continued to make herself scarce . |
| 24 | ‘ Go and see who it is , will you , there 's a duck , ’ requested Constance , who had just made herself comfortable on the swinging seat . |
| 25 | An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun . |
| 26 | Both Michael Lynagh and David Campese have made themselves available for the tournament . |
| 27 | She also hinted that the package may include a loosening of the benefit rules so that the long-term unemployed may take education or training courses to prepare for new jobs without being deemed to have made themselves unavailable for work . |
| 28 | ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction . |
| 29 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 30 | In a word , governments have made themselves unpopular with their manifold ‘ failures ’ , those failures are traceable to their basic failure to restructure the social relations of British capitalism , and yet there has been no social force with the ‘ will ’ and capacity to enforce any radical restructuring against the opposition which any such move must encounter . |