Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke watched her as she gingerly helped herself to some of the food . |
| 2 | Franca naturally busied herself with genuine tasks , of which there were always plenty . |
| 3 | Russians in Central Asia , imperialists in India , South-East Asia , and Africa , colonizers in Australasia , and the commercial intruders in China and Japan all expressed themselves with striking forcefulness through this one architectural type . |
| 4 | He swiftly chided himself for such thoughts ; he 'd been taught to shun physical contact , even on a platonic level . |
| 5 | In 1330 , however , Edward III successfully rid himself of that control and Mortimer was himself executed . |
| 6 | The patient was shortly afterwards transferred to the National Hospital , but quite soon discharged himself against medical advice , evidently heedless of the fact that the Board had agreed to pay 2s.6d per day for his maintenance there . |
| 7 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 8 | The leading ‘ rank-and-file ’ activists of the 1960s and 1970s generally regarded themselves as anti-Stalinist leftists . |
| 9 | ‘ I just dried myself with some hay and wrung out my dress before putting it back on . |
| 10 | Our hostess scarcely showed herself at all . |
| 11 | But they just exhausted themselves after all these years — and I was in the right place at the right time , so they all settled on me to direct it . |
| 12 | The Iranians , who soon freed themselves from Hellenistic control and always escaped that of Rome , were also the only nation which the Greeks had known and appraised before Alexander . |
| 13 | Still , I could n't help responding , at least in spirit , to the orgy of general joy as we docked at Lisbon ; and even John stiffly lent himself to various aromatic embraces . |
| 14 | Although the band could now operate without digging into the personal pocket of Joe Moss ( previously he had financed all the band 's expenses ) , Marr , Morrissey , Rourke and Joyce still found themselves with little personal money . |
| 15 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 16 | Mary herself , in captivity in England but forever smuggling out letters and appeals , dealt slyly in shrouded half-promises and suggestions , but made one thing quite clear : she still regarded herself as rightful Queen of Scots and , even towards the end , offered no more than a grudging suggestion of James being ‘ associated ’ with her in ruling the country . |
| 17 | A team of divers that included myself once found ourselves in such a situation . |
| 18 | After his retirement in 1974 he quickly involved himself in local community work in the church and will several charities . |
| 19 | Uncle Albert told her that when he did the weeding , he always imagined himself as some great monster uprooting trees and scaring the tiny people hiding under the stones . |
| 20 | Without a shadow of doubt Steven Morrissey always saw himself in that light . |
| 21 | Since the STJ always confined itself to veiled hints of this kind rather than anything more explicit , and since there is little or no literature available on the women 's suffrage movement in Edinburgh , it is impossible to say whether there was indeed any personal connection between the Master Printers and the " West End suffragettes . " |
| 22 | Yet I recall an episode many years ago in which a man deliberately put himself in this predicament . |
| 23 | We decided that Shakespeare 's plays were mere patterns of imagery , without human beings in them , and by a strange act of critical abnegation , deliberately blinded ourselves to all sorts of psychological insights , which the Victorians had been able to see and are now being seen again . |
| 24 | We decided that Shakespeare 's plays were mere patterns of imagery without human beings in them , and , by a strange act of critical abnegation , deliberately blinded ourselves to all sorts of psychological insights , which the Victorians had been able to see , and are now being seen again . |
| 25 | So after Doctor Who Carole Ann Ford deliberately immersed herself in theatrical parts to free herself from the stigma of Television , emerging only after a year to play the radically different role of a prostitute in ITV 's new Public Eye series . |
| 26 | The earthly rule of Osiris was that of a just and wise king , who organised the agricultural , religious and secular life of his people , and who also concerned himself with peaceful foreign conquest , ably assisted by Isis , by his vizier Thoth , and by his officials Anubis and Wepwawet . |
| 27 | The Committee also concerned itself with other aspects of university life — the training of graduates ; the value of degrees ; the employment of graduates ; the fair consideration of the provincial graduate in competition with those from the older universities ; the participation of graduates in university affairs , in industry , in education and in the Civil Service ; student problems , welfare and accommodation ; university entrance requirements . |
| 28 | The emerging Labour movement also threw itself into local politics with enthusiasm . |
| 29 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 30 | In Prague , Mozart also reacquainted himself with old friends , including Count Thun , in whose house he and Constanze stayed , and the Dušeks — František , a respected composer and teacher , and his wife Josepha , an old Salzburg friend of Wolfgang 's and a fine singer for whom he had written several concert arias . |