Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we waited for the service to finish we amused ourselves rearranging the flowers on the graves . |
| 2 | It is entirely clear from the documents in front of us in the treaty that we are enabling ourselves to have the option to opt in . |
| 3 | On several later occasions we returned to the pool , and tried ourselves to attract the eels with rice from both above and beneath the water . |
| 4 | We have committed ourselves to increase the programme on school buildings by 16 per cent . |
| 5 | In 1832 , an English couple , the Pattisons , married for just one month , were drowned in it ; according to the local sub-prefect 's report , because Mr Pattison was amusing himself sounding the depth of the water with a pole and fell overboard , dragging his bride in after him . |
| 6 | CAPENHURST foreman John Albino found himself facing the cameras and some tough questions recently . |
| 7 | After three or four pages , he found himself wandering the streets or pacing anxiously through some park he did n't even recognize , twitching and murmuring strangely to himself while mothers , at the sight of him , drew their children to them and stole softly away across the grass . |
| 8 | He could have lied , but he usually found himself speaking the truth to Mrs Lorimer ; it was another reason for moving out . |
| 9 | While in 1920–1 Eliot admired both Edward Wadsworth 's drawings of industrial landscapes and Picasso 's primitivism , he found himself living the life of Thomson or of the city clerks he had read about in Conan Doyle , Davidson , Conrad , and elsewhere . |
| 10 | And so , for the second time in his life , Lawrence Beesley found himself leaving the Titanic just before it was due to go down . |
| 11 | The T'ang smiled , and Ben , watching , found himself comparing the man to his tutor , Peng Yu-wei . |
| 12 | When Jean-Claude took over the space for his piano , he found himself lugging the trunk into the light . |
| 13 | He went to the court where he found himself dubbed the plaintiff , paid a fee and a deposit for which he received a receipt . |
| 14 | Miller found himself playing the role of her doctor , manager , analyst and trouble-shooter with an increasingly frustrated , impatient and high-handed Olivier , who was having marital problems himself with the mentally troubled Vivien Leigh , who had just announced a miscarriage at the age of forty-one . |
| 15 | Athelstan found himself relishing the closeness . |
| 16 | He repeatedly found himself asking the question Who ? — and What ? — was he ? |
| 17 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |
| 18 | He even found himself liking the gunman in an abstract way , despite Gomez 's future role as his executioner . |
| 19 | To his own horror , Hugo , the lifelong Socialist , found himself blaming the boy 's peasant stock . |
| 20 | Secretly , and with some self-reproach , he found himself resenting the circumstances of this imposition . |
| 21 | he found himself crossing the square |
| 22 | At the age of 16 , alone in his uncle 's house in Madurai , he describes how a sudden terror of death overtook him , and he found himself dramatizing the occurrence of death . |
| 23 | Within twenty minutes he found himself minding the store , while Haynes slipped out ‘ for a few minutes ’ . |
| 24 | They survived and flew home , and Peacock found himself savouring the memory . |
| 25 | The landlord found himself returning the smile with a grin of his own . |
| 26 | And it was after a pre-lunch 76 here that first time Scot , Chris Cowan , found himself heading the charge for a top qualifying place . |
| 27 | He found himself following the line of marks left in the carpet by the sharp heels of her shoes , caught himself watching the alternate bracing of her calf muscles as she moved to and fro . |
| 28 | He found himself avoiding the street in which Francesca lived as he drove for North Kensington , calling ahead on his car phone to make sure that the forensic team was still there . |
| 29 | Launching himself form the top of a massive 300 foot crane , Nigel plunged towards the ground at high speed with only a bungee ( a strong rope made of rubber encased by a purpose-designed braiding ) stopping him from eating his words . |
| 30 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |