Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | She has busied herself in the promotion of senior civil servants ( looking for people with energy and commitment ) and regularly badgered departments about progress on particular policies — ‘ like a dog after a bone ’ an adviser claims . |
| 32 | As time and cost constraints make extensive physical experimentation increasingly difficult to justify , the transport sector has installed itself at the forefront of the model revolution . |
| 33 | There are many teachers who feel that things are that bad , and for whom , at some tacit level of decision-making , becoming ‘ like that ’ has presented itself as the only sensible , or the only possible modus operandi that is left . |
| 34 | The student needs to immerse himself in the performance of a kata in order to release his emotions . |
| 35 | He has shot himself in the arm . |
| 36 | ‘ Their precious Republic has ruined itself over the Naples war . |
| 37 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 38 | A stone age management opportunity has revealed itself to the Directors of AIB Bank plc in Britain . |
| 39 | I have to say though , that when we the Council advise other charities on the investment powers that they should take when they 're established and when they draft their Memorandum of Association , erm , we advise them to take wider powers er , than these , and we advise them that they should not seek to constrain themselves by the Trustee Investment Act nineteen sixty-one , as our own flexibility is constrained . |
| 40 | Sassenach Lilly Meaham is so terrified of bagpipes she has to lock herself in the loo every Hogmanay . |
| 41 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 42 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 43 | Public administration and management in central government has stood up to these strains , but the weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the last 25 years . |
| 44 | In research terms , this has shown itself in the way that it has become perfectly acceptable to use a wide variety of research techniques in one study , and to use different techniques for the study of different topics . |
| 45 | The weakness has shown itself in the apparatus of policy formulation and in the quality of many government decisions over the past 25 years . " |
| 46 | The extent to which the company has transformed itself over the past dozen years should not be underestimated . |
| 47 | Holly straightened himself , shrugged at his shoulders to try to rid himself of the weariness , gazed back at the man 's face . |
| 48 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 49 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 50 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 51 | It often seems to Christians that the Christianity which has wrapped itself round the person of Jesus has served to obscure rather than communicate its raison d'être . |
| 52 | Once man has habituated himself to the world of emotions which is a form of the transcendent , it is possible for him to cross into it at will . |
| 53 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 54 | BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 . |
| 55 | He has armed himself with the munitions of modernity , not only with ‘ conventional arms ’ , but also with an arsenal of nuclear , biological and chemical weapons . |
| 56 | The rest of the session , including Summerchild 's confession , or his heroic refusal to confess , has broadcast itself about the little attic room , bounced off the walls , been absorbed in the carpet , faded to silence and passed out of history . |
| 57 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |
| 58 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 59 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 60 | For the first time , a major interpretative musician has equipped himself with the necessary skills to mastermind his own visualization of the music he conducts , which allows him , in the process , to offer a new generation of music-lovers a sophisticated set of options for the study and appreciation of music in performance . |