Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'll not be more'n a stone 's throw from the door , so rid th'self of thoughts about taking off . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In these commentaries — on Solomon 's rebuilding of the Temple , on Esras and Nehemiah , especially on Samuel — he constantly addressed himself to passages about kings . |
| 8 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |
| 9 | Lancaster proved himself one of the most outstanding of Edward 's commanders , and he and his men not only covered themselves with glory but also substantially enriched themselves . |
| 10 | She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all … |
| 11 | Not bathing for two days was no great inconvenience when he only had himself for company ; not shaving suited him fine when there was no woman to complain of beard burns . |
| 12 | The very stability which so commended itself to farmers — any transient compound is less useful in agriculture unless it can be applied directly to the pest — was the factor which so alarmed ecologists . |
| 13 | The River Otter , Coleridge 's ‘ dear native brook ’ , borders the town to the west , and makes its leisurely way through a landscape which to eighteenth-century inhabitants seemed ‘ the richest finest Country in the world ’ , and which even now preserves the striking beauty which so impressed itself on Coleridge 's young mind . |
| 14 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 15 | After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire . |
| 16 | They no longer regarded themselves as objects of charity and resented being so regarded by the hearing world . |
| 17 | He only just stopped himself in time . |
| 18 | Anyone who sought to translate their feelings into political activity soon found themselves in jail . |
| 19 | He became friendly at the Royal College with Ted Dicks who , owing to his liveliness and ability to play the piano ( he took over at the Colony Room when Mike Mackenzie left ) soon found himself in charge of student entertainments . |
| 20 | I needed it because when I finally disentangled myself from Zaria 's legs ( another advantage noted : no claws ) , I padded over to see what the noise was . |
| 21 | The shops — those endless lines of shabby , plastic-fronted London shops , the paint peeling , the windows steamed up — finally reassembled themselves into council flats ; they disintegrated again and reappeared as boarded-up warehouses at Dalston Junction , weeds sprouting vigorously from cracks in the brickwork . |
| 22 | The DRC , still closely associated with the National Party , nevertheless dissociated itself from parts of the final declaration of the conference , which called for " unequivocal rejection " of apartheid , and for a " democratic elective process based on one person , one vote " . |
| 23 | Starting in those countries where the rehabilitative approach had progressed furthest , the United States ( see the American Friends Service Committee , 1971 ) , and Scandinavia ( see Christie , 1974 ) this reversal of opinion soon established itself in Britain ( see Bean , 1976 ; Hood , 1978 ; Taylor , Lacey and Bracken , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | It came in India in 1974–5 when he began with 93 and 107 ; this proved to be something of a false dawn and he had an unhappy time in Australia in 1975–6 , but he worked on his technique and finally established himself in England in 1976 with 592 runs at 65 , including a century in each innings on a poor Old Trafford pitch . |
| 25 | Crowds of people would line the banks through the little villages , never tiring at the sight of their own local natural phenomenon , until the great waves finally smashed themselves to extinction against the weirs of Gloucester City . |
| 26 | It was always argued here that , if Mr Major cut direct taxation , then made direct taxation ‘ an issue ’ , and generally endeared himself to Essex Man and Woman , he would be still more likely to win than he otherwise would . |
| 27 | Once , to his own dismay , he almost hit the child out of frustration , and only just curbed himself in time . |
| 28 | When Bonn soon realigned itself with Washington , de Gaulle was compelled to look for other ways of resisting American hegemony in the West . |
| 29 | Durkin quickly made himself at home in Carewscourt . |
| 30 | ENGLAND 'S cricket bosses yesterday divorced themselves from team manager Micky Stewart 's attack against Pakistan 's pace bowlers . |