Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller jerked himself into some sort of alert state as they approached , smiling glassily . |
| 2 | But if , if libido was aroused by for example seduction in childhood it could go nowhere , it was repressed in the unconscious , where it transformed itself by some kind of psychological chemistry into anxiety . |
| 3 | The construction of spontaneous housing settlements and the way this has induced several governments to support self-help schemes demonstrates the way squatters have taken the situation into their own hands and provided themselves with some sort of shelter . |
| 4 | On the other hand , shaky close-ups , even of magnificent beasts , are not very good to watch and you really need to provide yourself with some kind of additional support to help you hold the camcorder steady . |
| 5 | ' I understand that Daniele Miletti got himself into some trouble with your section some time ago . ’ |
| 6 | What is required of the student is the capacity to identify with English : " Unless an undergraduate can identify himself in some sense with the subject he is studying , he is either reading the wrong School , or has no business to be at university at all . |
| 7 | First , everybody in a well-run organization should feel himself under some pressure . |
| 8 | At times he liked to sit there , with no more than two or three candles dotted about the room , imagining himself in some sort of shrine . |
| 9 | The lack of academic autonomy will show itself in some form or other . |
| 10 | She composed herself at some leisure before answering . |
| 11 | ‘ I just dried myself with some hay and wrung out my dress before putting it back on . |
| 12 | There is also a very important smaller group who have deliberately injured themselves in some way . |
| 13 | My boss returned along the passage at a furious gallop and I steeled myself for some unpleasantness as the young man was rousted from his bed . |
| 14 | The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ . |
| 15 | In this respect orthodox medicine may have placed itself at some disadvantage to its complementary counterparts . |
| 16 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 17 | Such a mind may become so restless and frustrated with repression that sooner or later it will tear itself on some nail of its own making . |
| 18 | Now here was this gifted sister , who had so many opportunities that he had been denied , apparently threatening to throw them all down the drain , and bury herself in some backwater in Africa . |
| 19 | If war broke out , would I come to regret having buried myself in some backwater while history passed me by ? |
| 20 | It seems to me two of the elements are lend themselves to some sort of arithmetical assessment an and the County 's gone through at . |
| 21 | ‘ Simply that if you 've got yourself into some sort of a mess then that 's your business . |
| 22 | Erm eventually you 've got refusing it but you I imagine you 've got yourself in some difficulty f one further point on this I note you had a section on these minutes . |
| 23 | But if only now is it God 's intention that they also be admitted to orders , women must necessarily see themselves as some kind of secondary citizens . |
| 24 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 25 | They 're sure to embarrass themselves in some way , |
| 26 | Vichy , Spa , Baden-Baden , Aix-les-Bains , but above all the great international spas of the Habsburg monarchy , Gastein , Marienbad , Karlsbad , etc. , were to nineteenth-century Europe what Bath had been to eighteenth-century England , fashionable gatherings justified by the excuse of drinking some form of disagreeable mineral waters or immersing oneself in some form of liquid under the control of a benevolent medical dictator . |
| 27 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 28 | It was hoped that Japan could re-establish herself to some extent in the islands of Habomai and Shikotan while the Kurils should come under a UN mandate . |
| 29 | At one point , the German countess emerged from the midst of the gentlemen and before I had had a chance to serve her , began helping herself to some port from my tray . |
| 30 | I find myself in some difficulty in that the statement I have prepared does not debate the merits of the inner and outer routes , but merely the question of is there a need for a relief road er and what are the benefits that the particular relief road er that we are currently promoting which is the outer northern , whether that is is sufficient to demonstrate that it is meeting a need . |