Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [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 | By the time he had pressed her into a seat she had herself under more control , and was suffering acute embarrassment at her outburst . |
| 4 | Did he know exactly the kind of dilemma she found herself in ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At Adkin we pride ourselves on giving you that help every step of the way . |
| 7 | It seems quite innocent to talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ , but with such talk we blind ourselves to what really matters . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the process of reading the images they construct themselves as a particular kind of audience . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In Sanduny baths they beat themselves like carpets , but here in the North the beating is an art . ’ |
| 13 | With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring . |
| 14 | ‘ 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. , |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As he worked on his script he kept himself to himself . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 20 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 21 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 22 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 23 | When I got back to base , instead of being welcomed as the returning hero I thought myself to be , I was asked what had taken me so long . |
| 24 | Out there in the cold snow Dane Jacobsen had stripped away some of the barriers she protected herself with . |
| 25 | An adopted daughter of Washington she sees herself as a bit of a hard North-East woman . |
| 26 | With a shriek of delight she threw herself at Maggie , enveloping her in the warmest of embraces . |
| 27 | There was a tight , hard knot in her stomach that seemed to preclude eating , but in a gesture of defiance she helped herself to a platter of seafood . |
| 28 | This has the effect of cancelling your existing covenant and in return you commit yourself to making payments under the new covenant . |
| 29 | In the centre of all these changes , supervising them and sitting straightbacked above them on her high stool , was always Madame , the central figure in the composition of whatever new tableaux we rearranged ourself into . |
| 30 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |