Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest . |
| 2 | I ran to the bedroom and heaved myself under the bed , fighting blindly with the magazines . |
| 3 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 4 | It formed the Bund and committed itself to a critical modus vivendi with the state by declaring itself to be a ‘ church within socialism ’ . |
| 5 | Explaining why the authorities changed their mind and committed themselves to the transfer of land is a prime difficulty in the history of the emancipation . |
| 6 | He ran a finger around his neck and shook himself like a dog settling itself inside its collar . |
| 7 | I climbed on to the shed roof and gathered myself for the jump . |
| 8 | The priest completed his circuit and disappeared behind the altar screen , leaving in his wake a long trail of incense which gradually mounted into the roof and lost itself among the ostrich eggs and silver censers suspended there . |
| 9 | She took the report , went out into the department and threw herself into her work with tight-lipped determination . |
| 10 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 11 | On another occasion , failing to observe the line of the road , I shot straight into a farmyard and buried myself in a haystack . |
| 12 | ‘ It tripped on the rein and lamed itself on a tree-root , ’ said Crane . |
| 13 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 14 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 15 | Rex thrust Laura into the back of the car and threw himself into the driver 's seat . |
| 16 | He had trained as pilot and after the war , as the Jewish struggle for statehood intensified , he volunteered for the Israeli air force and found himself in a squadron of old Piper Cubs , Fokkers , Messerschmits , Dakotas and Avro Ansons , few of them airworthy . |
| 17 | Hector , distressed , gave a whimper and hid himself in the skirts of his chosen protectress . |
| 18 | Distress smote Theda as she took in his condition and knew herself to be the cause of it . |
| 19 | When Isaiah had his vision of God in the Temple , he cried aloud in anguish that we lost : even the angels could not bear the sight of the divine majesty but shielded themselves from it with their wings , and he had gazed upon the Lord of Hosts with his own impure eyes . |
| 20 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 21 | Jobless David Griffiths , 20 , spent three fruitless months hunting for work and found himself under arrest when police spotted him putting up stickers in a St John 's Wood phone box . |
| 22 | The control room door slammed shut behind Atrimonides as he ran on to the gallery and hurled himself at Christine . |
| 23 | ‘ Toddler fallen out of an upstairs window and impaled himself on the railings . |
| 24 | The chief inspector climbed in over the sill , eased down the window and found herself in the hall . |
| 25 | We pressed into the throng and allowed ourselves to be sucked forwards , up the steps . |
| 26 | Alexei loosed , and the arrow leapt from the bow and embedded itself in the wooden spike which rose from the dome of a house two streets away . |
| 27 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 28 | Despite offers of another bottle , we declared a truce and comforted ourselves by sharing a strawberry and raspberry gratinée , the fresh fruit beached in a hot lake of custard and centred with a melting raspberry sorbet : definitely my desert island dish . |
| 29 | Gradually , though , as the rest of the column led by his uncle on a fine white horse arrived , the survivors who could walk came out of the banqueting hall and allowed themselves to be greeted by the relieving troops . |
| 30 | Acknowledging their weaknesses and limitations to live up to the Christian ideals they realised the strength they would obtain from mutual help and formed themselves into Teams . |