Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But we still went on enjoying ourselves immensely for the officers handed us chocolates and were very kind .
2 We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city .
3 We also found ourselves together in the middle of the LA riots — two days of mayhem without a cop in sight — so I guess that brought us closer together !
4 We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race .
5 We will confine ourselves here to the state-owned case , leaving regulation to chapter 5 .
6 We shall confine ourselves here to the statutory requirements which must be observed .
7 Peach alone was in the house , having let himself in through the cat flap Stephen had fixed into the lower panel of the back door .
8 His spirit had not been broken ; rather he was afraid of tearing himself apart with the involuntary jerking of one side of his limbs in the opposite direction to the other .
9 He was soon embarrassed , therefore , to find himself back at the plague village , helping Lucie and Izzie to settle into one of the cottages , wondering why he had not left with the rest .
10 He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore .
11 He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall .
12 He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them .
13 But then he , himself , had never concerned himself greatly with the case of Michael Holly .
14 He kept twisting himself on to the side of his affected lung , but did not wake when I altered his position .
15 In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn .
16 It is a situation much worse than the one Smith found himself in before the game with FC Brugge two weeks ago and could involve some drastic re-organisation .
17 After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ?
18 As a result of all this , Baldwin found himself back in the Caxton Hall by 30 October .
19 A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree .
20 The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition .
21 However , with record companies realising the appeal and financial benefits of bands like Sabbath having a line-up as close to the original as possible , Neil found himself out in the cold after Geezer Butler was reunited with his former partners .
22 He is such a lucid writer — and although he defends himself ably against the charge of superficiality ( which has been levelled since I was a student ) the breadth of his scholarship is so immense that the defence seems unnecessary .
23 He 's not naturally aggressive — he 's not a friend of John Major 's for nothing — and he 's not nasty enough ; he 's been trying , no doubt psyching himself up in the mirror in the mornings — ‘ I will be beastly to them !
24 He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air .
25 Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane .
26 He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box .
27 Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival .
28 What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ?
29 It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 .
30 There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby .
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