Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such places always have a high status in the local settlement hierarchy and frequently occupy a central position geographically ; they most obviously manifest themselves in the form of towns and cities . |
| 2 | A sociology of culture must further and most obviously concern itself with specific artistic forms . |
| 3 | He grew morose after that and growled at the customers , it seems — so most took themselves to the next village for their ale . |
| 4 | ARTISTIC LICENCE ART Multiverb Alpha 2.0 Applied Research & Technology have long since established themselves as makers of quality rack equipment . |
| 5 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 6 | ‘ You have long enough to lose yourself in Fragonard 's world , Charlie . |
| 7 | He wanted to say her name but he could not remember it ; he wanted to engage in the physical endearments and gentleness he so much prided himself on bestowing and was received so gratefully for so doing , but this lean , hard-bodied girl would have none of it . |
| 8 | And as they passed the rows upon rows of back yards , the grey washing on curious pulleys , the backs of hardboard dressing tables , the dust-bins and the coal sheds , it occurred to her to wonder why she should so suddenly feel herself to be peculiarly blessed , and a dreadful grief for all those without blessings took hold of her , and a terror at the singular nature of her escape . |
| 9 | Travis was impatient to get on , but Paige was in a Libran mood , depressed and bloody-minded enough not to allow herself to be chivvied before she was ready . |
| 10 | It might not be as easy as plotting Vologsky 's defection — and Kirov had only just reminded himself of a few of the terrors which he could face if he failed . |
| 11 | He only just stopped himself in time . |
| 12 | Another superb serve led to no more than a defensive return from Sampras and Forget was so confident that the American would not be able to return his first volley that he only just stopped himself from throwing his racket into the air as he started to dance for joy along with the crowd . |
| 13 | Once , to his own dismay , he almost hit the child out of frustration , and only just curbed himself in time . |
| 14 | There was something alarming in the way an eleven-year-old girl - or ‘ nearly twelve ’ as she kept saying — could so easily comport herself among a press of adults . |
| 15 | Somehow or other , the vicar got off stage , and disappeared behind the altar , perhaps off to hurl himself into the flames that would shortly be consuming Donald . |
| 16 | She never came to take her membership quite for granted : she had admired the in-people for too long ever to feel herself to be truly one of them . |
| 17 | He had also come to respect Irina for her ability so rapidly to transform herself into a reasonably well-dressed , reasonably good-looking girl . |
| 18 | ‘ But when I see those stones here , and ponder — as I was doing when I so nearly precipitated myself upon you — ’ he laughed , gently , at his own folly and again rapiered a look to Miss D'Arcy who , in control now , returned to him the dreamy interest of the truly hooked — ‘ it was Egypt I thought on . |
| 19 | The Observer commented that Ramsey destroyed his chances of succeeding Fisher as archbishop by so openly identifying himself with the extreme high church party . |
| 20 | They will have to stop thorns getting through to your skin — otherwise you had better also equip yourself with a fine needle , tweezers , and a strong light ! |
| 21 | Bath 's Ben Clarke has so far established himself as the pick of the British Lions touring squad in New Zealand |
| 22 | Six local churches including Q.P. have so far committed themselves to the vision and are represented on the Mark 2 board . ) |
| 23 | By this time the manner of Cutter 's death was known throughout ie camp and somehow it appeared disconcertingly trivial for a man " ho had so often exposed himself to such great danger . |
| 24 | Big firms have long ago weaned themselves off their dependence on the banks who , in the 1960s and 1970s , supported them through thin times and thick . |
| 25 | As the implications of the purposes of this scarecrow figure dawned on her , his sister screamed out that he was crazy , and perhaps even threw herself at him to prevent his plan . |
| 26 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 27 | Did he feel he had invented the gun-for-hire designer by so firmly dissociating himself from any one house ? |
| 28 | We can only freely give ourselves to someone else when we are ‘ real persons ’ — just as Harry was beginning to see in the play . |
| 29 | The principle that no man can be a judge in his own cause may also be infringed if a person has so actively identified himself with the temperance cause , by his actions in campaigning against the granting of certificates , that it would be contrary to elementary justice that he should act as a member of a licensing board . |
| 30 | His steam engine was awarded a prize of £100 by the Aeronautical Society for having the greatest power-to-weight ratio of all the fifteen engines exhibited , but unfortunately the triplane could never be tested in the still-air conditions to which it was suited , and so never proved itself to be , if indeed it was , a practical flying machine . |