Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South African domestic season thus finished with Eastern Province winning the Castle Cup ( four-Day and the night series ( 45 overs ) , and Free State the Nissan Shield ( 55 overs ) , Eastern Province were the beaten finalists in the latter competition and could thus justifiably regard themselves as South Africa 's champion team . |
| 2 | In order to do justice to the Jesus of history , one must effectively divest oneself of preconceptions — and especially of the preconceptions fostered by subsequent tradition . |
| 3 | Ken Mentle , who often made up club rules as he went along , declared that his was the casting vote and promptly blocked the appointment , incredibly naming himself as manager . |
| 4 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |
| 5 | After being stuck in traffic behind trailer upon trailer carrying ‘ The Doors ’ logo , I eventually found myself with director Oliver Stone watching a drunk and disorderly Morrison recording ‘ Touch Me ’ . |
| 6 | The Backs always attracted me , even in a winter fog , and we eventually found ourselves in King 's College Chapel for what I think must have been the very first of the annual carol concerts . |
| 7 | They later intervened on his behalf when he was investigated for criminal fraud , thereby opening themselves to allegations of having accepted bribes . |
| 8 | Arnulf achieved his goal , thereby opening himself to charges of duplicity . |
| 9 | Rose shut herself into her office , grimly applying herself to routine . |
| 10 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 11 | Antoinette 's legs and feet twitched under the covers , would suddenly throw themselves from side to side . |
| 12 | ‘ You have long enough to lose yourself in Fragonard 's world , Charlie . |
| 13 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 14 | Because Vaughan could never entirely rid himself of envy of Minton and his way of life , he remained edgily critical of him . |
| 15 | Wyllie suddenly found himself without Brewer 's expertise , and Wyllis was incandescent with rage when a medical panel ruled Brewer out of the World Cup campaign . |
| 16 | It is hard to know now whether Eden was really being serious , or merely protecting himself for posterity . |
| 17 | Better to distract herself with Giles . |
| 18 | As in this passage , Genet not only disguises himself in terms of the law , but internalizes the disguise . |
| 19 | All of his staff had been damaged in some way , but for those who were shy , or clever enough to hide themselves from Lennon 's advance . |
| 20 | I 'll not be more'n a stone 's throw from the door , so rid th'self of thoughts about taking off . |
| 21 | " You 'd better send yourself to Hoggatt 's if you want to get there by eight-thirty . |
| 22 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 23 | But Watson does not only see himself as publicity agent for his cause . |
| 24 | The centredness of the Hegelian dialectic Althusser presents as having an ‘ internal spiritual principle ’ which in its abstract simplicity can only realize itself as ideology ( Althusser 1969 : 103 ) . |
| 25 | Then Hughes , for so long dogged by the determined attentions of marker Guennady Fillimonov , suddenly shook himself into space before blasting from the edge of the box but Podshivalov reacted superbly . |
| 26 | And Y ? is the reason I can not find a genuinely happy ending to this story ; there seems to be a choice between adding poisonous chemicals and not — both of which apparently lend themselves to doom and disaster for the earth and its creatures , rather than sweetness and happiness ever after . |
| 27 | Essentially it is the ultimate perfection — a hostile critic might say ‘ emasculation ’ — of Netherland polyphony , its florid elements pruned , its dissonances disguised or mollified by preparation and other devices which so lend themselves to codification that ‘ the style of Palestrina ’ has become the ideal model for students of sixteenth-century composition . |
| 28 | ( b ) that some parts or aspects of a topic naturally lend themselves to comparisons or joint treatment . |
| 29 | They constantly get themselves in debt . " |
| 30 | Er basically stuffing yourself to excess for two weeks . |