Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every morning we woke to find ourselves surrounded by fresh tracks made by capybaras ( the world 's largest species of rodent , looking something like a giant guinea pig ) ; on our last evening , the boatman killed an alligator as it crawled past our camp-fire to go hunting in the reeds beyond . |
| 2 | It had a marked effect on those who read his poetry , and a few years later Leonard was to find himself tutored by one of Pound 's most sympathetic admirers and directed to the understanding of the American 's verse , somewhat to Leonard 's concern , as we shall see . |
| 3 | In spite of Amritsar , he announced himself willing to co-operate with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which were unveiled at the end of the year , and only changed his mind as the degree of Dyer 's support in British public opinion was borne in upon him , and as he began to find himself isolated by the more radical elements in Congress , who had either already lost their faith in the British , or had never had any . |
| 4 | He was amused to find himself surrounded by the dead mackerel of his own catch , and held one aloft , waving and shouting to his crew that if they did n't hoick him out good and quick , there 'd be no free ale in Mother Russell 's that night . |
| 5 | Hence if the Roundabout Motel were to find itself traversed by the proposed M15 bypassing Seachester , it may be compulsorily purchased after the holding of the requisite public inquiry and the approval of the M15 route . |
| 6 | I once met a girl who awoke to find herself gripped by the Spirit of God at 2 a.m . |
| 7 | After being very much the king/queen of the castle at secondary school it was a great eye opener to find herself surrounded by all these brilliant and clever people " . |
| 8 | Shamlou was gratified to find themselves jostled by so many foreign students , many loaded down with rucksacks , clearly in Paris for cheap hostel holidays . |
| 9 | And not content with berating Strauss he must move on to Hofmannsthal-bashing — an all too familiar exercise by those who read no German and are unable to find themselves moved by this sensitive poet 's imaginings . |
| 10 | On one issue which centrally concerned the Consultative Councils — electricity prices — their attitudes were predictable and damaging : the Councils generally added to the pressure for uneconomically low prices , though members who adopted an aggressively consumerist line were unlikely to find themselves reappointed by the Minister . |
| 11 | They had rested in the straw of a Starveall , or lonely barn , and woken to find themselves attacked by rats . |
| 12 | Neither of the Glovers had used a public telephone for a long while and were astonished to find themselves confronted by a totally unfamiliar contraption . |
| 13 | I MOVED FORWARD , out of the blackest sleep , to find myself surrounded by doctors … |
| 14 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 15 | Not only will the situation which upsets you continue , but you will continue to do yourself harm by fuming about it . |
| 16 | The House declined to consider itself bound by the Rainham Chemicals case where it seems to have been taken for granted that such an activity constituted a non-natural use of land . |
| 17 | You would imagine Sarah does more than enough to keep herself fit by jetting from one side of the world to the other frequently . |
| 18 | He probably tried to get himself cleared by borrowing someone else 's papers after his arrest . |
| 19 | Ever a proponent of parliamentary freedom of speech , in 1621 Alford protested against the ‘ eyes over him to observe ’ , but refused to have himself cleared by the House at the end of the session : ‘ God forbid that snares should be laid for mens words … |
| 20 | Because respectable England , being what it was , did not want to be waited upon by gangling adolescents with spots , nor to have itself paged by unmodulated voices that were just breaking , and youths in such positions invariably got the push when they grew out of the uniform , or lost their boyish looks . |
| 21 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 22 | Some partners , unsure of their lovability , may use affairs to get themselves reclaimed by their partner . |
| 23 | It was particularly galling for the greens to see themselves overtaken by the extreme right National Front , which was being credited last night with 12.5 per cent of the vote but was not expected to win more than a couple of seats . |
| 24 | Like the Anglo-Irish , they had lived long in that country and had built its prosperity , only to see themselves betrayed by the politics of moderation and compromise . |
| 25 | Express ourselves and to make ourselves understood by others . |
| 26 | He began to feel himself approached by God , and in the summer of 1929 went through a mystical experience . |
| 27 | Although Lowe under Dr. Watson had also learnt enough speech to make himself understood by members of his family , he was to say that his usual method of communicating with his family was by his fingers , and with strangers , by writing . |
| 28 | Jenny was surprised to feel herself flattered by this hint of intimacy between them . |
| 29 | ‘ You see , ’ I explained , ‘ for two years I 've had to shout to make myself understood by the giants . |
| 30 | The impediment in their speech will remain and their difficulties to make themselves understood by the man in the street will be with them for ever . |