Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We then p positioned ourselves further into the room er P C obviously was still with me behind the shield erm once we 'd got ourselves in a in a better position , as far as we were concerned , P C then started talking to the people , erm who were in the bed . |
| 2 | While we pause after the first phase of our acceptance are we to rely on exams for all to prove ourselves worthy of the kindly eye of the state ? |
| 3 | Inside , after the bright desert light , we found ourselves blind in the darkness . |
| 4 | If we 'd blown the network because of the hostages we would have left ourselves blind in the middle of a minefield . |
| 5 | An eminent psychologist has remarked that a man in a mood is almost as if in the grip of a small psychosis , and can find himself helpless in the face of it , unless he has trained himself not to identify with it too strongly . |
| 6 | Depressive symptoms are interpreted as abnormal ‘ care-eliciting behaviour ’ — behaviour intended to bring important others closer when a person perceives himself deficient in the receipt of care . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Though Cash is a former champion , he is no longer willing to commit himself full-time to the game . |
| 9 | Cierva was himself dissatisfied with the required forward run of the aircraft , he wanted vertical lift at take-off . |
| 10 | He could cut himself free on the coral . |
| 11 | Trent shook himself free of the hands that held him and turned his back on the man . |
| 12 | He shook himself free of the hood and pulled the shawl off his head , his face burning in humiliation . |
| 13 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 14 | He could hardly ease himself free from the great stinking weight . |
| 15 | His breathing quickened with raw urgency , but he held himself rigid above the provocation of her softly rounded femininity . |
| 16 | Only minutes earlier , the gentle giant was in the bar chatting with friends and fans , the next he 's on stage and screaming himself raw as the tortured madman at the wheel of the flaming incandescence that is Into Paradise live . |
| 17 | It is that someone among them has taken for himself some of the treasures of the city which were destined for God 's own sanctuary . |
| 18 | Giving it would deprive the delivery driver of the opportunity to discover for himself some of the delightful scenery on his patch . |
| 19 | He dashed up the ladder , clambered along the horizontal part , dropped through the gap and swung himself clear from the final rung onto the ground . |
| 20 | This reflects his enduring excellence as well as the titleholder 's puzzling lack of recent form , having established himself top of the domestic pack last season , writes Richard Jago . |
| 21 | Simon de Pury , president of Sotheby 's Switzerland , proclaimed himself delighted with the total , SFr19,743,130 ( £9,015 million ) which exceeded the pre-sale estimate of SFr16,509,700 ( 94% sold ) . |
| 22 | Even now he says he was surprised by the appointment , which caused him to make himself unavailable for the British Lions ' tour of South Africa . |
| 23 | What a storm Sandy Lyle created by making himself unavailable for the Ryder Cup . |
| 24 | There he sat down with the guards keeping himself warm by the fire . |
| 25 | He made himself ill with the worry . |
| 26 | Nigel had once made himself unpopular at the office by writing in his column that women past thirty should shoot themselves . |
| 27 | One of the students , Thanavuth Klingchua , set himself alight during the demonstration and died of his injuries four days later . |
| 28 | He suffered burns to his upper body after dousing himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight outside the offices of former girlfriend Sandra Sturgiss . |
| 29 | The Peeping Tom was not himself likely in the circumstances to resort to violence , and the constable was certainly not . |
| 30 | Eb was making himself comfortable at the head of the table . |