Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these were matters which preoccupied theologians ( whose intellectual reputation was not high ) , philosophers and artists ( who were admired but somewhat in the manner in which wealthy men admire the diamonds they can afford to buy their women ) and social critics , of the left or right , who did not like the kind of society they lived in or found themselves forced into . |
| 2 | Or heard yourself screaming in a high pitch while arguing fruitlessly with your nearest and dearest ? |
| 3 | The victims are not just big banks , but ordinary people who have to pay bills twice over — or find themselves landed with impressive but worthless slips of paper . |
| 4 | Many victims , perhaps still recovering from their injuries , face silent menace from defendants and their supporters or find themselves blamed for their plight , even in the hospital emergency department . |
| 5 | We should not regard this situation lightly or allow ourselves to fall into a purely reactive management position . |
| 6 | Few LEA officers have any experience of delegated budgets in schools or have themselves worked in schools where pilot schemes have been operating . |
| 7 | Time and again , it appears that Place himself wrote in afterthoughts or amended text , often many years after first writing it . |
| 8 | Excitement flickered inside her like a random spark that found itself landing in a pile of dry autumn leaves as she hardly dared consider the possibilities and what they might mean for her . |
| 9 | It 's far better to ruin a feather pillow than let yourself overflow in violent behaviour . |
| 10 | Such was the number of committees that writing itself had to be suspended . |
| 11 | They were not overawed by the forbidding tors and jagged rocks , nor felt themselves threatened by the rolling acres of granite uplands . |
| 12 | Because respectable England , being what it was , did not want to be waited upon by gangling adolescents with spots , nor to have itself paged by unmodulated voices that were just breaking , and youths in such positions invariably got the push when they grew out of the uniform , or lost their boyish looks . |
| 13 | We shall examine the relation of this new humanism to the history of Western colonialism in a later chapter : it is not a question that Foucault himself elaborates in the course of what is claimed to be an , ethnology of Western culture' . |
| 14 | To disarm reluctant government ministers , the transnationals pointed out that there were other vast reserves in South America , Mexico , and Alaska , and that rather than find themselves restricted with petty regulations they would prefer to spend vast amounts on exploratory research elsewhere . |
| 15 | It helped him to dance , but for me , to dance is a way of allowing and encouraging ourselves to escape through our fingertips , eyelids , lungs and tips of our tongues . |
| 16 | Rachel asked the patient to sit in the small waiting area then turned as if to go and prepare herself to see to him . |
| 17 | It was also used by the armies of the eastern emperor , Theodosius , when he marched through the Balkans in AD 394 to overthrow Eugenius and make himself master of both eastern and western empires . |
| 18 | And they forgot to knock at the door and make themselves known to the people inside . |
| 19 | She sat down quickly on the couch and hugged herself to keep from shaking . |
| 20 | Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms . |
| 21 | I decided to give the authorities the slip and went through the bathroom window of the hotel and got myself lost in Moscow . |
| 22 | He also frisked drunks and got himself arrested on a vagrancy charge . |
| 23 | Somehow it must have found its way through the post-and-wire barrier that bounded the meadow , skipped farther on and got itself tangled in the barbs of the fencing at the top of the embankment beyond , above the railway line . |
| 24 | it faces up to discuss timing and nerving oneself to sketch in public places . |
| 25 | And a man might die and count himself honoured for music so sweet … |
| 26 | I spent a romantic holiday on the island some 30 years ago in a mountain village with a non-sailing companion and found myself pining in the summer heat for that azure water in the little harbour below . |
| 27 | I did n't bother to switch off the tape , and found myself listening to a religious programme , which suggested that suffering , guilt and penance is the path towards righteousness . |
| 28 | and found myself listening to Gav and Janice . |
| 29 | I followed the line of the shadow along the sand , over the rocks , and found myself looking at little Paul , splashing happily about in a pool , slapping the water with a great flat bit of wood almost as big as he was . |
| 30 | ‘ Tell me about Joyce , ’ I said quickly , and found myself fixed by a menacing leer . |