Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 2 | As a music lover I found myself in search of the ultimate sound — and I do n't mean loud boomy bass . |
| 3 | Her mind was full of the future which presented itself as a bright empty space crossed by tracks of her own shining , clear-cut flights , her passage swift and sunlit . |
| 4 | As W S Steer pointed out , ‘ … the department which prides itself on never making a mistake is almost certainly grossly overstaffed ’ ( Wiseman 1970:87 ) . |
| 5 | In an institution which prides itself on keeping politicians at arm 's length ( a rare achievement in Italy ) , Mr Dini 's contacts with the former government of Giulio Andreotti were unpopular . |
| 6 | By its very nature the trial is a passive form of review which confines itself to an examination of the finished product of the police investigation . |
| 7 | Police have praised the bravery of a teenage soldier who dragged himself from the wreckage of his car after being speared with a wooden stake . |
| 8 | The Iranians might welcome a secession in Iraq 's south , especially if the Shias who detached themselves from Baghdad chose later to attach themselves to their co-religionists in Tehran . |
| 9 | By the time he had pressed her into a seat she had herself under more control , and was suffering acute embarrassment at her outburst . |
| 10 | Any chick who fancies herself as a feminist ought to go and see Martha McGilchrist . |
| 11 | This The Waste Land did , but when Eliot writes elsewhere that any modern poet who applied himself to the drama would be an extremely conscious poet , using the historical imagination , it is clear that around the time of The Waste Land he was also considering writing plays . |
| 12 | SIR — Stephen Fry gives too much credit to P. G. Wodehouse , for it was W. S. Gilbert who , in 1881 , created the Duke of Dunstable — a gallant officer of the 35th Dragoon Guards who sacrificed himself in marriage to the Lady Jane to compensate for her misfortune in being distinctly plain . |
| 13 | Did he know exactly the kind of dilemma she found herself in ? |
| 14 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 15 | I suggest that where an average portion provides less than 20 calories you let yourself off the chore of weighing while following the F-Plan slimming method . |
| 16 | When the Catholic hierarchy was restored in 1850 Shrewsbury , whilst defending the restoration in public and denouncing the Catholic peers who distanced themselves from it , felt that the triumphalist attitude of Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman [ q.v. ] |
| 17 | At Adkin we pride ourselves on giving you that help every step of the way . |
| 18 | It seems quite innocent to talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ , but with such talk we blind ourselves to what really matters . |
| 19 | Moreover , I should warn those present of the risks they expose themselves to under McNab 's treatment … which is , however , not a treatment at all , but a waste of time . |
| 20 | In the process of reading the images they construct themselves as a particular kind of audience . |
| 21 | as if conforming to some prearranged ceremony they grouped themselves into a semicircle with Alex Mair a little to the front , like a formal welcoming party but one bracing itself for trouble rather than expecting pleasure from the approaching guest . |
| 22 | Although , strictly speaking , the bearers were not assigned to individuals and worked as a pool , carrying messages for anybody in the building , in practice they identified themselves with particular people . |
| 23 | In Sanduny baths they beat themselves like carpets , but here in the North the beating is an art . ’ |
| 24 | With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring . |
| 25 | ‘ Not so , ’ replies the university ; ‘ give if you will ; withhold if you must but understand if you can what nature of community we are and do not deprive us of our freedom , the freedom to pursue , and to teach others to pursue , knowledge for its own sake in whatever guise it presents itself to us ; for that is of our very essence. , |
| 26 | BP has considerable experience of rationalisation ; along with much of the rest of UK manufacturing industry it reshaped itself during the early and mid-1980s . |
| 27 | His ideal was ‘ the complete sympathy of complete detachment ’ , but in practice he distanced himself from his subjects and stressed his severity over the underlying sympathy . |
| 28 | As he worked on his script he kept himself to himself . |
| 29 | Then , almost alone , he awaited his fate , and as the British troops stormed through the gateway of his stronghold he shot himself with a pistol sent to him in happier days by Queen Victoria . |
| 30 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |