Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was appalled to find myself given a first task of writing a blurb for a feature on the dreadful Gaye Bykers On Acid . |
| 2 | On arrival we find ourselves ringing the second bell . |
| 3 | Baglin quickly established a 3–0 lead in the deciding set , but his opponent was not yet ready to give up the fight , lifting himself to take the next two games . |
| 4 | Possessed of such , and revelling in the distance set between them and miserable ‘ pragmatism ’ , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative Party can still persuade itself to see the last decade as a period when undeviating conviction wrought a miracle in the land . |
| 5 | ( They disport themselves to accommodate the next piece of mime , which consists of the PLAYER himself exhibiting an excitable anguish ( choreographed , stylized ) leading to an impassioned scene with the QUEEN ( cf. " The Closet Scene " , Shakespeare Act III , scene iv ) and a very stylized reconstruction of a POLONIUS figure being stabbed behind the arras ( the murdered KING to stand in for POLONIUS ) while the PLAYER himself continues his breathless commentary for the benefit of ROS and GUIL . ) |
| 6 | One day America may find itself facing the last generation of its own weapons , which it had sold to its enemy in friendlier times . |