Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself face to face with Jack Nopps . |
| 2 | The only thing was to push me at once to the front ; and almost immediately , after a very few brief words from the distinguished chairman , I found myself face to face with an audience that evidently meant mischief . |
| 3 | I gave myself ones for like erm like ability like I know I 'm good at it but effort was like three , you know , I 'm below a but they , they 're stupid because it was either above average or below average and what 's just average , it was okay , I 've been really okay . |
| 4 | After breakfast of tea without milk and rolls with cheese and marmalade , I wrote myself reminders of what to discuss today at the ‘ Keep Trying ’ bakery , collected useful handouts and a picnic lunch , fetched the bike from its tiny sleeping house , pumped up the back tyre and I was off . |
| 5 | Even more unusually , the team , which named itself DPRS after the four co-founders Roger Davison , Andy Pollock , Simon Rees and Amanda Shingleton , left with staff , clients and E&Y 's goodwill . |
| 6 | " Oh God , " she was muttering , as she made herself tea in the empty kitchen . |
| 7 | One piece of the inscribed marble base survives with them , and shows that the dedicator was a Sicilian , one of the Deinomenid family who made themselves tyrants in these years of Syracuse and other cities . |
| 8 | This would certainly be the case for someone like Gordon Cooke , the Free Presbyterian minister of Rasharkin , who found himself chairman of the ‘ parent ’ branch of the officially constituted Protestant Unionist Party largely because he was a strong supporter of Paisley 's political line and a leading evangelical in the Bannside area at the time when Paisley decided to stand against O'Neill . |
| 9 | The country 's first President , David Dacko , was ousted in 1966 in a coup led by Col. Jean-Bedel Bokassa , who proclaimed himself Emperor of the Central African Empire . |
| 10 | A fierce uprising in 1534 was suppressed by Henry VIII , who declared himself King of Ireland in 1541 . |
| 11 | Towards the end of October 1337 Henry Burghersh Bishop of Lincoln arrived in Paris with a letter from Edward III addressed to ‘ Philip of Valois who calls himself king of France ’ . |
| 12 | The confident cricketers are the ones who set themselves targets of achievement , which range from Sir Richard Hadlee 's carefully calculated and perfectly achieved ‘ double ’ season in 1984 , to my hope that perhaps I will perform the somewhat lesser treble of at least one run , one wicket and one catch for the village this year . |
| 13 | There is actual evidence that he did do it in his childhood , and th so they 're not erm , they 're kind of building everything on a single sentence like Leo does , you know , amazingly enough , Leo 's book starts with entry of Who 's Who in a single phrase , where she calls herself daughter of , her father . |
| 14 | That 's right , and , and the first act of the play is a rehearsal and it keeps stopping and the director keeps sort of straightening them out and they 're dealing with little problems , and when you 're actually rehearsing it you find yourself sort of repeating the play because it 's so ac Michael Frayn who wrote it has so accurately observed what happens er when you 're directing a play that er you find yourself re-enacting the play and , and suddenly find a discussion you 've just been having has part sounds as if it 's come out of the script . |
| 15 | Following a national council meeting in late August , the rebels , who call themselves Co-ordination for the Independence of Ecology , said they were ready to field independent green candidates in next year 's European elections . |
| 16 | I belong to a Committee who call themselves Women Against Apartheid , and we have been engaged in campaigning a lot against these marital laws . |
| 17 | Johannitsa of Bulgaria , who styled himself emperor of the Bulgarians and Wallachians , wanted support for his regime against both Hungary and the Byzantine empire . |
| 18 | Although this Act does not apply directly to animal feedstuffs , as compounders , we consider ourselves part of the human food chain . |
| 19 | Luke would mow , or sweep leaves , very occasionally , but with the air of one earning himself exemption from such tasks for months to come . |
| 20 | They granted themselves permission for Stonecross offices which was against the local plan , he said . |
| 21 | They left themselves man to man at the back , leaving themselves wide open . |
| 22 | He learnt all the signs and conventions , very quickly , not only because he made himself student to so many tutors , but because he watched so carefully everything that each one did , with that strange , silent , exhausting attention of his . |
| 23 | His own critique of Lawrence leads to his climactic denunciation of his own generation when he turns himself prophet of the most orthodox sort , quoting a long passage from Ezekiel also used in The Waste Land . |
| 24 | He knew he was wealthy , set up for life , but he was already being made to pay for the taking of those lives : almost every night since , he had been troubled by dreams in which he found himself face to face once more with his victims . |
| 25 | It was at this point that he found himself face to face with Cinzia Miletti . |
| 26 | He was later promoted to depute director and within six years of his return , he found himself director of the newly-created Lothian Regional Council 's Education Department . |
| 27 | Having escaped from detention with several of his supporters , he proclaimed himself commander-in-chief of the Kaba camp and demanded the release of other officers arrested after the May 27 incident . |
| 28 | In a compromising philosophy he allows himself violence against property but never against life , human or otherwise . |
| 29 | Wexford had amiable , sometimes distinctly fond feelings for his subordinate , but occasionally Burden made him impatient , especially when he instituted himself keeper of the chief inspector 's conscience . |
| 30 | Now ’ — he brought himself face to face with his Rolex — ‘ tempus fucks it . |