Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Caine stars as cat burglar Henry Clarke , a master jewel thief who has himself committed to a sanatorium for alcoholics to gain the confidence of a multi-millionaire . |
| 2 | Kylie laughs when she recalls herself dancing around the Minogue living room singing ‘ Greased Lightning ’ for family and friends . |
| 3 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 4 | Having disrupted the balance of her pictorial space by introducing a dynamic diagonal , she finds herself moving into an unknown area . |
| 5 | In her challenging book Look Me in the Eye , she finds herself rejected by her feminist campaigner friends , with all kinds of excuses about her assumed deteriorating abilities . |
| 6 | This weekend that fear will be realised as she finds herself isolated from the boys who , as she has so often pointed out , mean everything to her . |
| 7 | Tracy is a cab driver who finds himself struggling against the power of the city 's corrupt taxi bosses . |
| 8 | Cool World also stars the ever-sulky , strongly quiffed Brad Pitt as Detective Frank Harris , who finds himself entering into the bizarre , mesmeric universe created by Deebs as a solace from his own troubled existence . |
| 9 | Paula plays Diane , the oldest entrant , who finds herself competing against her daughter . |
| 10 | To a boy who declares himself stuck about what colour to use , he says : ‘ Well , Sickert said that when in doubt put a little of the last colour into the next colour you use , and that gives harmony : it does n't work to use a colour in isolation — white and black are the two parents , red in isolation can appear like a wound in the picture — it 's like friendships , we all know the awful consequences if a new person joins a group and the friendships are n't mixed through , it 's the same with colours . ’ |
| 11 | At each end are two women : young one , lying on front and side , half-wrapped in her mantle as a blanket and beginning to pull it up on her shoulder as a dress while she lifts herself to look towards the centre ; and an old one with cropped hair , a slave , fully dressed , beginning to get to her knees . |
| 12 | Must not theology , if it were to be possible at all , be established from the other side , by God himself — by the God who makes himself known to us in Jesus Christ rather than the God whom we choose to recognise in him , a God who comes from beyond ourselves to judge , redeem and save ? |
| 13 | Wandering around Wainfleet one finds oneself walking from one atmosphere to another . |
| 14 | One finds oneself agreeing with Karl quite often . |
| 15 | ‘ I know , I understand : one lays oneself open to this sort of thing with animals . |
| 16 | As well as writing soundtracks — his latest , the music for a TV documentary on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright — he busies himself playing with no less than three other outfits . |
| 17 | The Angel of the Lord : Without diminishing his deity , he accommodates himself to speak to man : Genesis 16:7f. ; Judges 13:16f. , etc . |
| 18 | The incommodiousness of Scotch windows keeps them very closely shut … even in houses well built and elegantly furnished , a stranger may be sometimes forgiven if he allows himself to wish for fresher air . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps the most potent advantage for adult education is that it sees itself catering for developing learning needs over the whole adult age range . |
| 20 | When an inquisitive fish or crab provokes them to such action , it finds itself struggling in a mesh of filaments while the sea cucumber slowly inches itself away on the tube feet that protrude from its underside . |
| 21 | He finds himself calling upon the Government to use its powers to stop or sink Christopher Columbus 's expedition before it reaches America , and sets off a chain of events disastrous to the ecology of two continents . |
| 22 | On windy days he finds himself flying over Doncaster , flares a-flap , hair streaming behind him like a curtain . |
| 23 | He finds himself evaluated by the correspondingly vague notion of competence . |
| 24 | Such a stern demand is appropriate because once a man becomes a Christian he finds himself enlisted on God 's side in a lifelong battle . |
| 25 | At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder . |
| 26 | At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder . |
| 27 | Whereas formerly he had been the subject of history , taking pride of place in God 's historical scheme from creation onwards , now ‘ the human being no longer has any history : or rather , since he speaks , works , and lives , he finds himself interwoven in his own being with histories that are neither subordinate to him nor homogeneous with him ’ ( 368 — 9 ) . |
| 28 | The challenge he sets himself grows from the nature of his materials and their relationship to an evolving form , and the outcome often involves a series of variations on known or familiar objects . |
| 29 | He makes himself known with a tiny , metallic clink-clink-clink from within the bushes . |
| 30 | There is only what from our side is neither predictable nor controllable — the coming of the Word from beyond which opens and displays to us the overwhelming advent of God as he makes himself known in the ‘ eternal moment ’ . |