Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite the fact that my players ran themselves into the ground . |
| 2 | I was there a few days and then me and me friends barricaded ourselves in a cell and we would n't come out because there was nowt to do . |
| 3 | ’ And two days later : ‘ Along — my thoughts of us clarify , and my feelings distil themselves , and I realize that you 're doing what you must do and it was probably best for me . |
| 4 | If a rule book was not yet available , that was because it was … at the printer's. 64 But the Edinburgh Trades Council refused to recognize the women 's union , describing it as a " bogus association , engineered by women suffragists " and its leaders found themselves beleaguered . |
| 5 | The Alliance and its supporters busied themselves in rates and exposes of socialist malpractice . |
| 6 | The club and its supporters saw themselves as part of the mythical ‘ aristocracy ’ of football but Macari insisted they were out of touch with modern football and embarked on a mission to toughen the team and its image . |
| 7 | Perhaps I have just become too comfortable with the cheering notion that women are far too busy getting on with their careers and their lives to crucify themselves worrying about ragged cuticles or the size of their ankles . |
| 8 | The impediment in their speech will remain and their difficulties to make themselves understood by the man in the street will be with them for ever . |
| 9 | There would be noting to indicate how compelling and sweeping is the style , how wonderfully well Nick Farr-Jones and Bob Dwyer and their men conduct themselves . |
| 10 | Apparently industrialised nations and their politicians torture themselves into believing that if Third World countries are turned into amphitheatres of food and agricultural research , lustily cheered on and abetted by Western ‘ gurus ’ , everything will be hunky-dory . |
| 11 | Once you have these you are then in a position to work out which behaviours to use and which behaviours to avoid yourself in order to shape the reactions you want from the other person . |
| 12 | Adam sat on the bank among the bulrushes and the great , pale , leathery hosta leaves and looked at the house with its canopy of roses and honeysuckle , the martins ' nest under the eaves , the long terrace with Zeus in his various avatars and his loves disporting themselves along the flint wall . |
| 13 | In about 1805 he and his brothers established themselves in Bristol as ‘ stonemasons , architects , builders etc . ’ , |
| 14 | Frankie felt his face redden and his hands clench themselves into fists . |
| 15 | Alvar Salvadores and his companions bestirred themselves so well that they drove the enemy to their tents , making great mortality among them , and then they turned back , whereat my Cid was well pleased ; but Alvar Salvadores went on , hacking and hewing all before him , for he thought the ladies were looking on , and he pressed forward so far , that being without succour he was taken . |
| 16 | Having complained for many years about blacklegs from the continent , Wilson and his colleagues found themselves , in the early 1900s faced by a reverse flow , foreign agents , assisted in some cases by the Shipping Federation , recruiting British workers to break dock strikes in Antwerp in 1906 and 1908 , a seamen 's strike in Hamburg in 1906 and a Swedish miners ' and dockers ' strike in Sweden in 1908 . |
| 17 | Gradually the combined armies in France managed to gain more than a toehold on French soil and started to advance , and our aircrews found themselves flying over more and more territory which was in friendly hands , so therefore the casualty rate in Bomber Command dropped dramatically . |
| 18 | For my mother it must have been a sad comedown from the Legation , but we boys enjoyed ourselves . |
| 19 | There was a group of children in our sample who either because they could still remember harsh treatment at the hands of a parent , or because their parents had themselves ceased contact , deserted them , or showed no interest in them , had no desire to meet the parents or maintain a link . |
| 20 | Just because our MPs give themselves a three-and-a-half week break does n't mean we can all benefit from copying them . |
| 21 | This is a play in which the priggish young hide their emotions while their elders give themselves up to extremes of passion . |
| 22 | He fixes her with his eyes , all eager deferential intelligence , while his hands busy themselves rolling a joint . |
| 23 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |
| 24 | I could n't get rid of my disability , became more staunch in my socialist politics , got rid of my accent and was thankful when my parents put themselves into enormous debt and bought a tip of a house in Croydon . |
| 25 | The driver , swearing loudly as his passengers picked themselves up from the floor and out of each other 's laps , opened the front door and jumped down to see what had happened to Adam . |