Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And get ourselves spitted in the process . |
| 2 | Every rime the blue light filled the block we saw ourselves silhouetted against the floor . |
| 3 | To complete the detail , a circuit was flown in formation with the Jodel , whilst Tony himself formated on the two of us . |
| 4 | As in a Hammer horror film , the anticipation of something dreadful provides the engine to this dream — the seven bearded men 's appalling appearance was not for instance immediately apparent , and even though they removed his clothes and started to eat , there was no explicit imagery of himself implicated in the cannibalistic orgy , tasting flesh — presumably his own . |
| 5 | The sheriff of Lincoln was sent to Stamford , but he met with considerable resistance , and Peck , quoting John Selden , suggests the king himself came to the town because of the students ' stubbornness . |
| 6 | Then Miguel himself came round the corner of the villa , dressed in a white open-necked shirt and dark fitted trousers . |
| 7 | One of the nine graduates from the estimable Haringey ( now London ) Cricket College to have passed through the first-class portals , the seamer from St Lucia found himself plopped at the top of the order in the absence of four injured batsmen , this despite a previous firstclass output of 0 and 4 not out . |
| 8 | When at this point the outraged proprietor himself arrived on the scene , seized a pickaxe from a workman and defied the party to proceed , using very much improper language , the sheriff had second thoughts and counselled withdrawal . |
| 9 | Currie himself squatted in the house to draw attention to the case . |
| 10 | Then one night in an alleyway he witnesses a murder and finds himself lumbered with the dead man 's child . |
| 11 | Edward IV himself fell into the rebels ' hands and was sent prisoner first to Warwick castle and then to the Nevilles ' northern stronghold of Middleham in Wensleydale . |
| 12 | Edward IV himself fell into the rebels ' hands and was sent prisoner first to Warwick castle and then to the Nevilles ' northern stronghold of Middleham in Wensleydale . |
| 13 | He himself went into the Army , and erm , he was , he was born in a in a little village , and an article in the newspaper that I acquired in Strasbourg , said that he was born in this little village Lom le Soniere his was born to life , but in Strasbourg , where he wrote the National Anthem , he was born to immortality . |
| 14 | McLeish made a conscientious note , feeling that he had got himself sidetracked off the more interesting question of Angela Morgan 's capital investment in Yeo Davis . |
| 15 | Solowka had a shock when he found himself berated by The Fall 's maverick frontman for having the audacity to share the same dressing room . |
| 16 | Sir Monty himself appeared on the panel at the end of the programme , expressing his opinion that the status of engineers was an intrinsic part of the problem . |
| 17 | Almost no one notices the significance of 25 March ; the high style of the eagle 's song has not had much appeal ; though Tolkien himself wept over the grandeur of the Field of Cormallen ( Letters , p. 321 ) , many other readers have found the delight , tears and laughter ( of Sam especially ) unconvincing . |
| 18 | These women were n't entirely defeated , and they were n't yet buried , their resistance could have been called to bear witness , but Orwell himself participated in the struggle for their exclusion by hiding their history . |
| 19 | Certainly , when Richard himself wrote to the Calais garrison on 28 June , setting out his title , his claim was vague to the point of invisibility . |
| 20 | Certainly , when Richard himself wrote to the Calais garrison on 28 June , setting out his title , his claim was vague to the point of invisibility . |
| 21 | It is ‘ an extraordinary compound ’ , as he himself wrote of the Prime Minister , although the elements and the whole are as different from anything which could have emanated from Lloyd George as it is possible to imagine . |
| 22 | Foulston himself wrote of the group that : ‘ it occurred to him that if a series of edifices , exhibiting the various features of the architectural world , were erected in conjunction and skilfully grouped , a happy result might be obtained . |
| 23 | If you want to be kind , the character can find himself manacled to the wall in one of the empty cells . |
| 24 | Hazel himself paused in the mouth of the hole , as he always had behind the bramble curtain at home , and looked out across the valley . |
| 25 | Christ himself said to the woman caught in adultery — for which the punishment was death — " Go , and do not sin again . " |
| 26 | Asshe himself sat in the midst , the long grey beard he had grown for Lear spreading out abundantly , his white hair wild as though on the blasted heath . |
| 27 | He himself sat in the first cab opposite Martin 's two partners , Mr Alex Beecham , the senior partner , and Mr James Holden , now the junior partner . |
| 28 | He felt himself yanked across the room and flung across his father 's legs , his body protected while his outstretched hand dangled like bait in the dog 's face . |
| 29 | ‘ He said it did n't matter , ’ another voice joined in , and Edward himself stood in the doorway . |
| 30 | Intel itself decommitted from the chip , its own maiden voyage into RISC , several months ago , and will doubtless come in for its share of the blame . |