Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the old man was finished we trooped aboard and settled ourselves on to the wet seats . |
| 2 | While the adults sat on their forms we sat ourselves down on an assortment of broken chairs borrowed from the neighbours . |
| 3 | We settle ourselves down in a First Class cabin , lay our delicacies out on the table , open some wine and champagne , set the crayfish on to plates that do n't look paper , and eat , drink and devour vast quantities of pâté , hors d'oeuvre and champagne . |
| 4 | Even in the situation that we find ourselves in with the Maxwell Pension situation , where we find that the the erm Trust Law did n't prevent the things from happening which did happen . |
| 5 | And of entrusting ourselves in to the power of his mercy . |
| 6 | We do n't know what he 's like yet — would n't it be better to ask him for an odd Sunday first before we let ourselves in for a course of sermons ? ’ |
| 7 | Jack , Willy , Rex and I took ourselves off to the Lamb Inn for lunch and put away as much ale and steak and kidney pie as four young men could desire . |
| 8 | Christmases were wonderful and greatly looked forward to by us both , but they were also tiring , and in early January , when all danger of further jollity from New Year had receded , we took ourselves off for a couple of days . |
| 9 | Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ? |
| 10 | And I suppose we 'd better go and asphyxiate ourselves up at the sulphur springs . |
| 11 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 12 | But they have got to be able to say : ‘ We will open ourselves up to a change agent ’ … and change is painful . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , we certainly thought we were climbing , the wife and me , you know with all that pulling ourselves up over the rock and all , and what with the fact we were , well , in a manner of speaking , how can I put this , em , climbing up to the top . ’ |
| 14 | We climbed onto it , put our arms into the shaft of sunlight , grasped the upper edges of the hole and , one by one , hauled ourselves up through a manhole into another street . |
| 15 | There is no need for us to act like hedgehogs , eating all that we can to fill ourselves up for the coming months . |
| 16 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 17 | Let us tuck ourselves up in the light and warmth , and hide away from the night . " |
| 18 | But this merely brings back the idea of particulars as distinct from qualities or ( mere ) configurations of qualities , and we find ourselves up against the very difficulties the theory was trying to eliminate . |
| 19 | Yes , jealousy is futile , but so often we can not rid ourselves of its components and reason ourselves back to a state of equilibrium . |
| 20 | We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband . |
| 21 | Baronness Warnock ( Ind ) , whose 1986 report forms the basis of the bill , said it would be a paradox if ‘ we democratic and increasingly educated people should … put ourselves back into the 17th century , when the question of whether or not Galileo and indeed Descartes might pursue and publish their scientific findings was regulated not by scientific considerations , but by religious considerations . ’ |
| 22 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 23 | look in early nineteen forty eight where we are , wh where the land reform process had taken the Communist Party tt and then we could begin to look forward to where policy was going to go from there in terms of the military , political , economic , ideological future and what I 'm going to do today to , to begin with anyway is , is to just consider where we are and where it is we 're gon na go and in a sense we could , it might be helpful to , to put ourselves back in a position of being the central committee again . |
| 24 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 25 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 26 | We can not hope to compete with the big stores for plain , cheap knitwear — they can buy their yarn at much better prices than we can and when we add costing for our time we price ourselves out of the market . |
| 27 | We had to do something to get ourselves out of the situation . |
| 28 | I bet we burn ourselves out before the Sun ! |
| 29 | Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context . |
| 30 | Within a minute Kerly had latched himself on to a Robert Clift free hit to score his first goal . |