Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternating audio signal is required from pin 6 , and a means must be found of preventing this ‘ feeding back ’ to pin 2 and cancelling itself out . |
| 2 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 3 | Look back to page 7 and remind yourself how you answered question 16 . |
| 4 | After several years he displayed the results in London in 1804 but said himself that the calves at one month old were ‘ as fat as quails ’ , though he declared that in due course the hide , flesh , milk and tallow would be of superior quality and value . |
| 5 | As Cooke 's name became known through his huge output of taxonomic works , especially the two-volume Handbook of British Fungi ( 1871 ) and the journal Grevillea , which he founded in 1875 and edited himself , he entered into a vast correspondence with distinguished mycologists world-wide . |
| 6 | When Liz Headleand woke on the first day of 1980 and found herself in bed with her husband , she remembered instantly the scene of the night before , and wondered how she could ever have been so upset by it . |
| 7 | She joined the Community of the Resurrection in 1940 and devoted herself to the training of Primary and Secondary school teachers at Grahamstown Training College . |
| 8 | Having been approached by Adam Boreel , who with John Dury and Samuel Hartlib [ qq.v. ] in England hoped to persuade a learned Jew to translate the Mishnah ( the Hebraic core of the Talmud ) into Latin , Isaac Abendana arrived in Oxford on 3 June 1662 and presented himself to Edward Pococke [ q.v. ] and other prominent Hebraists there . |
| 9 | Look back to page 21 and remind yourself how we cancelled . |
| 10 | Seve , who had made four trips to the course during its construction , completed the tough par-73 course in 75 but announced himself satisfied with the lay-out . |
| 11 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 12 | At 16 , she was a size 18 and resigned herself to a life of being obsessed with food . |
| 13 | Although in general the evidence suggests that it is usually the man 's retirement that provokes most friction , this may change as more of today 's working wives turn sixty and find themselves facing the same need to make difficult adjustments . |
| 14 | We crossed to the island of Krk at 16:30 and found ourselves on what was virtually a single track ‘ road ’ heading for the town of Krk . |
| 15 | Williams began studying in his spare time in 1897 and taught himself Latin and Greek , enrolling in a correspondence course at Ruskin Hall , Oxford , in 1900 . |
| 16 | The first of fifteen novels appeared in 1894 ( her early fiction sported the pseudonym of C. E. Raimond ) and she retired from the stage in 1897 and devoted herself to writing . |
| 17 | Quinn went up the stairs with their uneven treads , found number 11 and let himself in . |
| 18 | A new grouping , the Boere Weerstandsbeweging ( BWB — a splinter group of the AWB formed on June 11 and describing itself as the armed wing of the BP ) , pledged solidarity with the BP in its aim of re-establishing former Boer republics . |
| 19 | His father moved into Liverpool before 1567 and established himself as a merchant , and the younger Edward probably attended a grammar school there before his admission to King 's College , Cambridge , in 1565 . |
| 20 | She was four foot ten and described herself as having sagging breasts and a low-slung bottom . |
| 21 | A programme of national assessment began in May 1978 and concerned itself with the standard achieved by 11 year olds . |
| 22 | ZIMBABWE 'S Lewis Nuridzo has been a scratch player since the age of 14 and called himself ‘ God 's child of fortune ’ after shooting a 71 on the first day of the Amateur championship at Royal Portrush where the winner collects only a trophy and medal , not money . |
| 23 | Their baby Charlie was born in 1989 and has himself been one of the show 's stars . |
| 24 | This was defeated , partly because speculation forced the Watney shares up to a more realistic ( i.e. less attractive to Clore ) level , but Watney immediately launched its own series of defensive mergers , nearly doubling its size between 1959 and 1965 and giving itself national status . |
| 25 | Pourquery displayed a variety of touch shots and moved with great athleticism about the court , to defeat his net rushing opponent 6–4 6–7 6–2 and earn himself an intriguing place in the final against Hunter . |
| 26 | Lyle , who has missed the cut twice in his only four European Tour appearances this year , came in with a 68 and declared himself well-satisfied . |
| 27 | He was chosen as tight-head for the ‘ Boks against the FNB side in 1989 but injured himself on that same day and never got the elusive cap . |
| 28 | Down below , in the third class , James Flanagan , a Primitive Methodist minister who began his working life at seven and taught himself to read at twenty-one , preached and ‘ frequently pleaded with the God of earth and sea ’ for a safe journey . |
| 29 | With Simon Smith newly-installed on the drum stool , they kept up the relentless touring pace in 1988 and found themselves playing sizeable venues like London 's Town And Country Club . |
| 30 | The result is a genuine triumph , thanks to a troupe of singers , the same cast as at York , willing to give their best in attitudes ranging from completely recumbent to perilous perching on ladder or chaise-longue ; dragging themselves around on all fours and wrapping themselves in curtains ; and generally behaving as though the entire cast ( not just the noble lovers , as in the script ) is ripe for the psychiatrist 's couch . |