Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the first scene Blanche has had her first ‘ flashback ’ to the Casino , where her husband killed himself . |
| 2 | Cuts and weals appeared where her surrogate hurt itself in its destructive frenzy , but she smoothed them away with a flick of her mind . |
| 3 | And yet the night before the wedding his detachment or his melancholy reasserted itself when he told Stanley Baker that he was marrying her only ‘ because she expected it ’ . |
| 4 | This simply means that the normal 8-hour duty shift is split ; for example , 4 hours on duty , 2 hours off duty , then 4 hours on duty , or 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the evening , or whatever combination lends itself to the efficient running of the hotel . |
| 5 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite the fact that my players ran themselves into the ground . |
| 6 | She found it obnoxious that her son permitted himself a living relationship when , like her , he should be occupying himself exclusively with a dead one . |
| 7 | And lest there be any misunderstanding as to the intensity of the attachment Lugard had in mind , it may be noted that his thinking revealed itself quite clearly on the subject of loyalty when he wrote of military matters and the secret of command . |
| 8 | Miller quickly assimilated all that his father had himself taught him , within theory and practice of ornamental and kitchen gardening . |
| 9 | I think you will find as you begin to write through all your senses , that your writing transforms itself into something more fully alive . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ’ 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 . |
| 12 | I have good friends , and if I can keep my faculties — if my eyesight behaves itself and my hearing stays good — then I shall be content |
| 13 | In fact , Ministers were rarely happy to contemplate the rise in prices which would be necessary to raise the industry 's earnings and its capacity to finance itself , though limited pressure was exerted . |
| 14 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Alliance and its supporters busied themselves in rates and exposes of socialist malpractice . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As the door banged Peggy and her grandmother threw themselves into each other 's arms , one arm only around each other for they had to suppress the laughter that was bursting to escape in loud , hilarious guffaws … . |
| 19 | In the late 1640s Chidley and her son flung themselves wholeheartedly into London 's radical politics , when she emerged as a leader of Leveller women . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Industry-level bargaining would seem to have corresponded most closely to the preferences of employers and their capacity to organise themselves with a view to protecting market shares and strengthening their own bargaining power . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The owners , Signor and Signora Leoni and their son pride themselves on their high standards of personal service . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Megan claimed to be standing on her own two feet , but J. Graham Jones , of Aberystwyth , says LG confided to her that he had caused a hint to be given , if her opponent behaved himself after the vote , that he would help him find a seat to fight . |
| 28 | Clare remembered how she had seemed at first to be constrained in all her movements and jerky , almost as if her stammer manifested itself through her body as well . |
| 29 | If her father got himself a place she 'd go and live with him . |
| 30 | If her father found himself sitting on his own , he would look up in terror and cry for humans . |