Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've had times when we 've written to commercials and given them free tickets to dig ourselves out of a hole and things . |
| 2 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 3 | ‘ And how are my little chickens behaving themselves ? ’ |
| 4 | My sharp teeth sink themselves into its nose . |
| 5 | Her mobile features squeezed themselves around sulkily . |
| 6 | Mosley 's political trajectory was an extreme reaction to the dilemma in which British socialists found themselves . |
| 7 | Fire raced through her blood , her slim arms winding themselves instinctively about his neck , the throbbing of his heartbeat seeming to echo that of her own . |
| 8 | An in-depth study of our early land law reveal(s) the existence of a substantial body of Islamic legal principles , a historical fact which contemporary scholars find themselves in difficulty to accept , having been so engrossed with the civil law system introduced in these shores after the arrival of the English administrators towards the close of the eighteenth century . |
| 9 | But such criticisms become increasingly unconvincing if one observes the enthusiasm with which such students throw them-selves into new fields , and make themselves experts , within a short time , in subjects they may never have studied before . |
| 10 | Mitzi was immediately conscious of pain and seconds later of the table upturning and its entire contents spreading themselves across the parquet . |
| 11 | Ovum and spermatozoon will now fuse together as one cell , the nuclei combining and their chromosomal contents re-arranging themselves in their pairs . |
| 12 | The preceding section has suggested some ways in which these dimensions align themselves in Japan . |
| 13 | In response to the electric field in which these charges find themselves , the positive and negative charges will slightly separate . |
| 14 | Why did he remain voiceless while her high-pitched utterances spat themselves about ? |
| 15 | As for revolution , " The men who have been entrusted with the stewardship , the fortunes and the destinies of the trade union movement have too sound a conception of their great responsibilities to allow themselves to be stampeded into hare-brained enterprises at the bidding of any madcap missionary of reckless revolt . " |
| 16 | Then it seemed that the Lebanese civil war was one of those historical tragedies in which opposing communities fought themselves to a standstill only to be reconciled by a central government and foreign economic assistance . |
| 17 | His early history was not revealed , but when he arrived at his new home he was hostile , aggressive , and even savage ; and people were forced to take to their own heels to save themselves from his ! |
| 18 | These terminal direct repeats are believed to be generated by the mechanism through which migrating transposons reinsert themselves into the chromosomal DNA . |
| 19 | Poland reappeared on the maps of Europe not so much through its own efforts to liberate itself — though over the years these had been prodigious but unsuccessful — but through the collapse of the partitioning powers that had held Poland in check . |
| 20 | She bit her lip as her own words flung themselves back in her face . |
| 21 | The household of William the Conqueror was the nerve-centre from which his military victories were planned , from which his duchy and the kingdom of England were held in subordination ; its lay members held themselves always ready for battle . |
| 22 | Borrowing and taxation were inseparably linked in these schemes , and the merchants would use their monopolistic powers to enrich themselves and ensure that sufficient cash was available to satisfy the king 's need for loans . |
| 23 | Many organisations , College included , realise this and organise induction sessions for their new members to familiarise themselves with the basic characteristics of the organisation . |
| 24 | The change in definition does , however , affect the treatment of local authority expenditure ; the old definition included all local authority expenditure , whereas the new definition covers only the support for this expenditure provided by central government , i.e. it excludes expenditure which local authorities finance themselves . |
| 25 | This can easily be overdone ; it fails to take account of the inextricably intertwined motives with which Christian societies addressed themselves to their pagan neighbours . |
| 26 | The convention 's first section on the main areas of co-operation was headed by a chapter on environmental issues , in which both sides committed themselves not just to respecting the environment in the planning and execution of aid projects , but also to ensuring that " economic and social development is based on a sustainable balance between economic objectives , management of natural resources and enhancement of human resources ' . |
| 27 | Following a series of meetings the government and the Liberation Front of Air and Azawad ( FLAA ) , representing the Tuareg rebels , on May 12 issued a joint communiqué in which both sides committed themselves to working to create a favourable climate for effective negotiations , beginning with a 15-day truce from May 15 [ for January threat of force against Tuaregs see p. 38708 ] . |
| 28 | Other joint statements and memorandums included a charter on American-Russian partnership and friendship ( in which both sides committed themselves to settle disputes peacefully ) , and agreements on co-operation in space research , on an early warning system for nuclear missile launches , on the elimination of chemical weapons , and on investment in Russia . |
| 29 | Gorbachev had made an official visit to India in November 1986 , concluding with the signature of a ‘ Delhi Declaration ’ in which both sides pledged themselves to the peaceful resolution of international disputes . |
| 30 | If you want to talk about something different MPs voting themselves er twice the rate of inflation pay rise . |