Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [to-vb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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1 | Raising up the wooden clouds to hide himself from the public gaze , he hurried trembling down the ladder and hid in the dark cart , under his quilt . |
2 | As the main churches have become more liberal , Free Presbyterianism emerged to challenge the lack of ‘ real ’ Protestantism and hence offered an implicit challenge to the fraternal organizations to purify themselves by breaking their ties with the main , and now apostate , denominations . |
3 | The nerve strain had been bad , and these were not men with the mental resources to immerse themselves in books or thought . |
4 | He used the long passageways to reassure himself that no one followed , before emerging at the start of avenue Foch . |
5 | Where there are to be music fades in and out at the transfer , leave plenty of overlap at the beginnings and endings of the pre-recorded sections to give yourself ample working margins at the mixing stage . |
6 | Moscow tried to encourage the non-aligned states to commit themselves in this region to the ‘ gradual curtailment of distinct forms of military-political cooperation … the non-creation of new forms of multilateral and bilateral alliances , the non-adoption of military functions by non-military regional organisations ’ . |
7 | And you can have one of the spare rooms to get yourself ready in . ’ |
8 | First of all it 's the , the finding out erm how best you can prevent one , and then when you 've found that out trying to persuade people to take the necessary measures to make themselves less vulnerable . |
9 | By allowing , in the interests of economic profitability , the financial institutions to regulate themselves , by weakening , in order to keep down industry 's costs , the power of the agencies who are meant to control health and safety and pollution , the Conservatives again have revealed the ideological basis to their law and order position . |
10 | Consequently it has sometimes been difficult for the new patterns to establish themselves in the face of combined resistance from programme committees , established departments , and professional senior officers . |
11 | The rise of the middle-class was not , on the whole , predicated on an aspiration to join the aristocracy , whose way of life , especially during the Regency , met with a good deal of disapprobation ; but it was determined by the resolute intention of the new men to distance themselves in every possible way from the working-class , out of which so many of them had raised themselves . |
12 | ‘ What I strongly suspect — ’ Roman had strolled back to join her in the cockpit , stretching long , hair-coarsened dark legs unnervingly close to her own slender golden thighs ‘ — is that Mathilde embroidered the local myths to suit herself ! |