Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and behavioural abstinence : i avoiding weighing yourself more frequently than once a month . |
| 2 | For every unit of alcohol ( half a pint of beer ; one glass of wine ) , it takes one hour to clear itself from the body . |
| 3 | The result is a predictably idealistic criticism which at one level contents itself with rapid reference to formalistic definitions , and at another assesses the products of socialist realism with imprecise criteria culled generally from a liberal bourgeois critical tradition . |
| 4 | Ymor 's ravens were notoriously loyal to their master , to the extent that Withel 's one attempt to promote himself to the rank of greatest thief in Ankh-Morpork had cost their master 's right hand man his left eye . |
| 5 | How one cell orientates itself and produces its spicule so that it fits perfectly into the overall design is totally unknown . |
| 6 | When discussing a passage in Dorothy 's German journal , where she states that she ‘ carried Kubla to a fountain in the neighbouring market-place , where I drank some excellent water ’ , one editor allowed himself to speculate upon the existence of a missing manuscript copy of Kubla Khan . |
| 7 | In 1952 Masjumi split into two , one group calling itself Nahdatul Ulama . |
| 8 | One group distanced themselves from the class and adopted a communist ideology advocating the overthrow of capitalism by the working class . |
| 9 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 10 | Therefore , the required relationship exists where one person holds himself out as an expert and gives advice which is intended to be taken seriously and acted upon even though no contractual relationship exists . |
| 11 | turns out to be five foot two , dark hair and really not all that good looking after all , and so the problem with the advertising is that you know how one person sees themselves and advertises themselves not always the way they actually appear so its er pitfall |
| 12 | My love , no longer inhibited by his existence , presented itself with all the understanding required to bring us together again — the gentleness , the words , the small gestures that make it possible for one person to reveal himself to another and two people to share life . |
| 13 | Among the remaining trees , which would one day distinguish themselves in avenues and parks , and over the heads of the labouring workmen rose clouds of parakeets and honey-eaters searching for food . |
| 14 | WHO would have thought such an angelic little boy would one day transform himself into a colossal 275lb power-packed man-mountain ? |
| 15 | Wallers , masons , builders and slaters ; those engaged building and maintaining water races ; surface carters , and labourers who might one day find themselves cutting grass for the mine horses and shovelling tailings or road repairing the next — all fitted into the day-worker class . |
| 16 | The poet gave it to Alice Stopford Green wife of that frail and ‘ singularly attractive ’ priest of St. Philip 's , Stepney , who awoke one day to find himself famous with the publication of his Short History of the English People , one of the most vivid and colourful of histories , first issued in 1874 and later ( 1877–80 ) expanded to four handsome illustrated volumes . |
| 17 | In June 1915 my father commented : " I am coming to the conclusion that the heir to the throne of Solomon is at heart a Moslem and is entertaining dreams of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem kingdom that will stretch far beyond the frontiers of his present Empire . " |
| 18 | Van Peebles père soured on Hollywood after directing the now-classic comedy ‘ Watermelon Man ’ ( 1969 ) , about a suburban businessman who wakes up one morning to find himself black . |
| 19 | Both Courtauld 's and Messrs Jay 's of Regent Street could rest assured , for not one undertaker concerned himself with buying-in to the mourning warehouses , thereby turning the tables on the mercers and upholders . |
| 20 | One woman advertised herself as Madam Homa , an imaginative name . |
| 21 | More surprising , one candidate describes himself as unemployed : Eric Clarke , the Left-wing former miner and senior NUM official . |
| 22 | Two wills becoming one , when the two wills were initially unequal can surely only mean the one will subordinating itself to the other . |
| 23 | The FACE vowel seems to be part of the stereotype — witness the way one speaker introduced himself on the tape ( W is of Barbadian parentage , E Jamaican ) : This is not Wayne 's normal speech style , but " fooling about " , as evidenced by E 's response ( " backside " = " rubbish " , though much less polite ) and the laughter of all four people in the room . |
| 24 | Fashions come and fashions go , but one style repeating itself with enormous popularity is that of the Edwardian era . |
| 25 | One style directs itself to individualism ; the other seeks harmony with a social whole . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's a very patriarchal family , ’ Zoë says , ‘ the family define itself as the men , with the women and children just surrounding them — so when one man gets himself another woman , it does n't change things . ’ |
| 27 | This one man set himself above the bloody incident in the snow and the yelping sound of the siren . |
| 28 | One man identified himself as a jobbing builder and chatted to the woman , who was in her seventies , while another searched the house in Brougham Street , Darlington , on Tuesday . |
| 29 | And getting to it can mean one man hauling himself through a two-foot tunnel for half an hour in six inches of water . |
| 30 | But it was one thing to tell myself that and another to act on it with any conviction . |