Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That decision to organize ourselves as a group was a really important step forward for us as workers and for the organization . |
| 2 | MOTORIST Peter Beer battled for eight hours to free himself from his crashed car while vehicles roared past on a motorway yards above . |
| 3 | When he was able , he fed himself with the meal he 'd prepared earlier , and stripped off the heavy insulating robe to dress himself in Tech-Green drab . |
| 4 | Although in retrospect it might seem a vain hope to disguise ourselves as a motor yacht , we were not well known in the area and there were , after all , quite a few converted HDML 's about in those days , so we removed a few obvious identification marks from the ship including our uniforms , flew the red ensign and settled down to wait . |
| 5 | If it can be shown to the satisfaction of the jury that the defendant had the intention , he has very little opportunity to exculpate himself on the grounds that he lacked mens rea , as will be explained further presently . |
| 6 | If you are really living in a mess , have a grand clear-out and put the whole place straight ; after that try to discipline yourself to dean and tidy on a regular basis to keep it under control . |
| 7 | Equally , no company should fail to take advance action to prepare itself for them . |
| 8 | The grief-stricken widow refused to leave her dead husband 's side , and even crawled into his bed in a vain attempt to infect herself with his disease . |
| 9 | It is the responsibility of each employee to acquaint themselves with the full details of these and any local arrangements . |
| 10 | He found another porter to address himself to . |
| 11 | But by then the military phase of the Emergency was nearly over , and apart from the odd border patrol , the Masai were given no further opportunity to distinguish themselves in battle . |
| 12 | Many of the people are obliged to wear wet handkerchiefs to protect themselves from the strong fumes of sulphur . ’ |
| 13 | My companion took this opportunity to hide himself in his papers . |
| 14 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 15 | It flaps its wings a few times to lift itself off the ground , then simply rises up , using whatever thermals and air currents it comes across . |
| 16 | The way was thereby opened for English merchants to establish themselves in the island , and William Bolton came to Madeira as an agent for Robert Heysham of London , who had a brother in Barbados to whom Bolton shipped a large quantity of wine . |
| 17 | He must still be in with a chance of making the tour — although Andy Gregory 's 11th-hour decision to put himself in the frame must have reduced the odds somewhat . |
| 18 | A cowardly vacillation , this hesitation to commit themselves to being myth . |
| 19 | You want to throw it away on the first blonde blue-eyed gold-digger to throw herself across your path . ’ |
| 20 | Casting aside Pennzoil 's claims that it had no intention of launching a bid , Chevron moved into top gear to protect itself against a takeover which could be worth $35billion and would revive memories of some of the biggest corporate battles of the 1970 's and 80's . |
| 21 | I know perfectly well that certain of my colleagues have made some attempt to concern themselves with these questions . |
| 22 | Two years on , Ruth made yet another bid to launch herself into her chosen career : |
| 23 | The three ministers belonging to the CDU ( which had been under pressure from its West German counterpart to dissociate itself from the regime ) also withdrew from the coalition on Jan. 25 " to make way for negotiations " but would continue in a caretaker capacity . |
| 24 | Some candidates may indicate a clear reluctance to commit themselves at this stage and this is helpful in making the final decision about who best to appoint . |
| 25 | Demidenko ( Hyperion ) is also highly individual , not to say idiosyncratic , even if his penchant for the mildly unexpected will not be to everyone 's taste , and Katin 's sensitivity and rare gift for sustaining a seamless melodic line ( Olympia ) is let down slightly by his converse reluctance to immerse himself in those many passages when the note-rate increases alarmingly . |
| 26 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
| 27 | Labour leaders had done well over the past few years to present themselves in Washington as solid members of the alliance and as social democrats more than socialists . |
| 28 | It is sufficient at this point to remind ourselves of Bernard Rollin 's argument , in defence of Rawls , that the interests of infants , imbeciles , and animals , will be included in the scope of those of the moral agent with moral personality . |
| 29 | Thomas of Marlborough took about forty days to get himself to Rome , riding fast and wearing out horses on the way . |
| 30 | It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric . |