Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My enthusiasm transmitted itself to Malc and he left at the end of visiting time a happier man . |
| 2 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |
| 3 | In this respect my work differentiates itself from the work of the Minimalists . |
| 4 | I could n't get rid of my disability , became more staunch in my socialist politics , got rid of my accent and was thankful when my parents put themselves into enormous debt and bought a tip of a house in Croydon . |
| 5 | I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house . |
| 6 | My body gets itself into a state of refusal . |
| 7 | ‘ But it 's not in my nature to allow myself to be altered by another . |
| 8 | ‘ When the message was received , my father distanced himself from Rastani , though God knows why . ’ |
| 9 | Hell , I 'd spent most of my life dedicating myself to my work . ’ |
| 10 | Beachcombing soaks up the hours , punctuated with crisp swims during which my scarf unknots itself from my breasts and drifts out to sea like a directionless jelly fish . |
| 11 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite the fact that my players ran themselves into the ground . |
| 12 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground . |
| 13 | I just sat in the dressing-room with my head in my hands hating myself for what I 'd done . ’ |
| 14 | I scrunch up my face to stop myself from crying . |
| 15 | How had my mother transformed herself into this dower-house chatelaine ? |
| 16 | DEC for its part disassociated itself from statements made by DEC VP of software engineering David Stone as well as its own PR people that DEC had decided not to pursue the OSF/1 path for MIPS . |
| 17 | Their enemies equipped themselves in the same fashion . |
| 18 | The boy was presumably present when his mother stood before a Frankish assembly " declaring her willingness to purge herself on all the charges levelled against her " — and no accuser appeared . |
| 19 | She stops , surprised at her willingness to expose herself to him . |
| 20 | But again , she 's making good eye contact , both of them only let their eyes flick down to their notes to remind themselves of the next point they want to make . |
| 21 | I am not the first to suspect that the inhabitants of Massalia spent their money to ransom themselves from Catumarandus rather than the Romans from Brennus . |
| 22 | Marianne 's hands snaked up behind his neck , her fingers losing themselves in his thick golden hair as she pulled his face down to her own . |
| 23 | At last they were all free and she pushed the material impatiently aside , her fingers losing themselves in the gloriously thick mat of dark curling hair on his powerful chest . |
| 24 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 25 | What Margaret had n't known were the twin reasons for her decision to immerse herself in work : her need to occupy each waking moment with creative thought so that she had no time to dwell on Marcus 's sudden vitriolic departure from her life , and the struggle for economic survival which was facing the advertising agency where she was employed . |
| 26 | However , high interest rates in 1989 and 1990 brought about a sharp reduction in sales , and some of those who had already bought their houses found themselves in financial difficulty . |
| 27 | Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've seen them — women like that monstrous Gabriela — push their husbands to ingratiate themselves with the Leader 's henchmen here , I 've seen the feasts they 've laid — like traps — very effective traps — those men , they 're nothing but walking bellies with fists-they grab , hit , grab , swallow , hit , the scum , I would n't lower myself to share a table with them . |
| 29 | His predecessor , Centwine , abdicated on his conversion to enter a monastery , but of the details of the process by which Caedwalla established himself over the western Saxons nothing is known . |
| 30 | As part of their attempt to rid themselves of a growing hooligan problem , the clubs agreed on Wednesday to begin converting their grounds into all-seat stadiums and to petition the government for grant aid . |