Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 12 aligned themselves with the opposition NLF to form the United Legislature Front , thereby reducing S. C. Jamir 's Congress ( I ) ministry to a minority . |
| 2 | This manifested itself in the falling returns in grain collections for provisioning the towns and the Red Army . |
| 3 | In Chapter 3 it was argued that pre-colonial society was indeed authoritarian , and that this expressed itself in a great stress on the conformity of the individual , and on a hierarchy of relationships between young and old , between chiefs and people and between men and women . |
| 4 | The English established themselves in a strong defensive position and on the evening of 26 August the French approached . |
| 5 | Unable to effect a landing , the French satisfied themselves with an attack upon the Cawsand fishing fleet and were then compelled to put back to sea . |
| 6 | This presented itself as a worldly acknowledgement that different communities have different values and different ways of life which they have an instinct and a right to defend . |
| 7 | How much of the great-sinner project remained unachieved and how much dissolved itself into the books that in fact got written , can be debated endlessly . |
| 8 | That hid itself inside the blowfly belly |
| 9 | A beautiful non-tidal cove where Dublin 's finest flaunted themselves at an indifferent sea while their wives , children and girlfriends sat half a mile away on what was an excuse for a beach amidst the polluted debris of the capital and not a wave to be seen . |
| 10 | One was that , arising from the transfer of lands from one allegiance to the other , many found themselves under a new lord ; and some did not like it . |
| 11 | Those who spoke on behalf of the elderly found themselves in a dilemma . |
| 12 | When temporary workers responding to the British Labour Force Survey were themselves invited to differentiate between these two groups , two-thirds placed themselves in the first category . |
| 13 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 14 | When Adenauer took over domestic administration from the occupying forces in 1949 , an estimated seven million of those found themselves in the new Republic . |
| 15 | After 1815 he first involved himself with the religious and social work of Thomas Chalmers [ q.v. ] in Glasgow and then moved to London where he initially promoted seamen 's charities and was an associate of the Evangelical Clapham sect . |
| 16 | Thus , at the very moment when the common menace receded , the Twelve committed themselves to a common defence policy . |
| 17 | Thus James Bentham writes of the Fens : ‘ The smallest spots , however , scattered or remote , which first showed themselves above the surrounding waters , were eagerly seized upon by these watchful discoverers , and claimed as part of their allotted reward . ’ |
| 18 | The Serbian Orthodox Church on May 27 dissociated itself from the regime , criticizing the new constitution and forthcoming elections . |
| 19 | Student demonstrations increased sharply at the end of the decade and although the educated public in general dissociated themselves from the violent means and socialist ends of the revolutionaries , a large section of the press showed scant sympathy for the government . |
| 20 | The former established themselves on the margins of Lake Texcoco in the fourteenth century . |
| 21 | The real story of Koons ' romance with Cicciolina began about three years ago in Milan , when Koons first introduced himself to the Italian porn legend after one of her famed pee-on-the-audience performances . |
| 22 | The schematic account suggested that legal positivism first presented itself as a matter of fact whereby theorists sought to reduce law to one or other favoured fact . |
| 23 | Her deep and tender sympathy for all who were suffering and afflicted expressed itself in a manner of impressive graciousness and dignity . ’ |
| 24 | Did you notice they both concerned themselves with the everyday ? |
| 25 | The tightening of monetary policy throughout the industrialized world in 1989 and early 1990 manifested itself in the form of higher interest rates , as the major instrument to curb consumer demand and ease inflation . |
| 26 | They were both arrogant , both lechers , both saw themselves as the answer to all the problems on earth . |