Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun prp] " 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 | As from last week , ICL plc 's Training Services division transformed itself into Peritas Ltd , a wholly-owned , but independent subsidiary . |
| 3 | WHEN Ringo Starr announced himself in Cancun , Mexico , he was wined and dined , chauffered and given a week of radio interviews . |
| 4 | His mind concentrated itself on Tolby 's footsteps which were slightly uneven , as if the solicitor had a slight limp . |
| 5 | James , who has still to keep a clean sheet , would be disappointed to be overlooked , but he has the confidence and the talent to establish himself at Anfield . |
| 6 | James , who has still to keep a clean sheet , would be disappointed to be overlooked , but he has the confidence and the talent to establish himself at Anfield . |
| 7 | It 's Wright 's ambition to establish himself at Newcastle but if the future , in terms of first team football , looks bleak he will have to consider the Forest interest . |
| 8 | After years of assuring everyone that China could be trusted to carry out the 1984 British-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong in good faith , the colonial administration found itself after Tiananmen Square presiding over a population which knew that China could not be trusted at all . |
| 9 | Jilted lover shoots himself in Mercedes |
| 10 | As I said , the Palestinian delegation distinguished themselves in Madrid . |
| 11 | One of her Lock pictures assembled itself in Marie 's head : miles of crawling grey sea kicking up frills of white foam and the castle black , romantic , against it . |
| 12 | It takes either great pretentiousness or great brilliance ( or an outrageous combination of the two ) for a young poet to proclaim himself as Orpheus in the first poem of his first book . |
| 13 | During February , 1692 the Campbells went to Glencoe and under the guise of friendship billeted themselves on McIan Macdonald and his kinsmen . |
| 14 | A palaeontologist and a journalist find themselves in Callimba , where Cleopatra 's sister Berenice once reigned . |
| 15 | Cadfael settled himself beside Hugh on the cushioned bench against the abbot 's dark panelling . |
| 16 | In about 1805 he and his brothers established themselves in Bristol as ‘ stonemasons , architects , builders etc . ’ , |
| 17 | Refusing to accept dismemberment of his remaining territory , Wilfrid took himself into Mercia where he acted for King Aethelred as bishop of the Middle Angles ( HE , IV , 23 ; Vita Wilfridi , ch. 45 ) . |
| 18 | This was the way in which uncertainty asserted itself in Heisenberg 's original formulation of quantum mechanics . |
| 19 | And , on the other side , one outcome of the Truce of Orléans was that Charles took the abbacy of Ferrières away from Odo and gave it to a member of the community whose chief recommendation ( with still more pull than his fine scholarship ) was a readiness to commit himself to Charles . |
| 20 | The March gale hurled itself against Mr Whittaker 's windows . |
| 21 | Once again peacemakers put themselves between Saddam Hussein and the leaders of the alliance ranged against him . |
| 22 | The child flung herself at Rachaela , burying her snot and make-up smeared face in Rachaela 's jumper . |
| 23 | But the scholarship was worth only £100 and , though his school plundered its scarce resources to add £20 , it was not enough for the boy to support himself at Cambridge . |
| 24 | Viruses attach themselves to EXE files , so if anything untoward happens and a file tries to illegally write itself onto drive C , ViruSTOP will give a warning message . |
| 25 | The close geographical proximity between the Japanese home islands and Korea resulted in Japanese determination to assert herself in Korea so as to ensure the more effective defence of Japan herself ; in addition , it was hoped to exploit Korea economically . |
| 26 | It was just a spur-of-the-moment plan to rid himself of Doreen , she decided , but , even so , her arms became firmer as they clung to him . |
| 27 | He was rapidly proved right ; Spain pledged herself in December to a Family Compact with France , forcing England , on 2 January 1762 , to declare war on her and reviving the old nightmare of a joint Franco-Spanish fleet sweeping up the Channel to land a papist army on English soil . |
| 28 | With another whoop of delight the child threw herself at Jake , flinging her arms around him as he bent down to scoop her up . |
| 29 | More important is the fact that Aragorn has the stone available to him , and that Sauron ( having seen a hobbit in the same stone ) thinks Aragorn also has the Ring : it is because Aragorn showed himself to Sauron in the palantir that Sauron neglects his guard . |
| 30 | Chantal prised herself from D'Arcy 's grasp and found herself eagerly reaching for the receiver . |