Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 2 | The building materials industry geared itself to meet the steady predictable demand of the house-building industry , thus eliminating one of the chief impediments to the output of houses . |
| 3 | The movement could be said to have started in Scotland in 1972 , when the Headteachers ' Association set themselves to determine the range of items of information needed to produce a comprehensive picture of the aptitudes and interests of all pupils , offering them a common form of statement , which would be generally comprehensible and would be available to them when appropriate . |
| 4 | The scientific committee had itself recommended an option calling for as much logging as could be carried out in compliance with US environmental laws , far more than in the option chosen by the President . |
| 5 | What 's more , having themselves expanded to massive premises during that time , Harmony found themselves supporting a business whose sales were being rifled wholesale by cheap(er) imports . |
| 6 | I knew one family where the husband hung himself facing the front door so that his body would be the first thing his wife would see as she came in . |
| 7 | The landlord found himself returning the smile with a grin of his own . |
| 8 | An isolated curate who wanted knowledge found himself living a few yards from a man who at first sight was an explosive popular preacher , but who happened also to be one of the coming academic theologians of England , and an inciter of younger minds . |
| 9 | Thakin Thein Pe exerted himself to bring the two Communist parties together again , on the grounds that both ‘ Had a common object … in contesting British imperialism ’ . |
| 10 | So we followed the sign , and with some amusement found ourselves confronting a huge mirror ! |
| 11 | There was nothing else to cause alarm but it seemed to him that every now and then the dark object from which the movement came itself heaved a little , grew larger , and then fell back . |
| 12 | Before the Act the courts would not interfere with any decision by a local authority relating to a child in its care under statutory authority unless the local authority had itself brought the matter before the court , or the facts were such as to entitle the local authority 's decision to be challenged by way of judicial review : A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 , 373 , per Lord Wilberforce . |
| 13 | By a process which almost seemed inevitable the State found itself directing a major part of the country 's industries , and controlling or licensing most of the remainder . |
| 14 | Folly found herself reading the labels on boxes stacked around her . |
| 15 | Sierra Leone 's 3,000-man army found itself facing an intensifying struggle throughout May against forces of the Liberian rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , despite denials of any involvement by the NPFL leader Charles Taylor [ see also above . |
| 16 | Although there have been more comprehensive examinations of the record of the governments , the above four policy areas are of interest because the Conservative government pledged itself to change the direction of policy in them . |
| 17 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 18 | In taking steps to tighten control over the peasantry and the zemstvos , the government saw itself consolidating the alliance between State and nobility . |
| 19 | CAPENHURST foreman John Albino found himself facing the cameras and some tough questions recently . |
| 20 | The driver sat drumming his fingers nervously on the steering wheel while the attendant busied himself filling the tank , checking the oil and radiator , and wiping the windscreen . |
| 21 | As Knocker busied himself filling the bottles , Herbie turned to his main adversary . |
| 22 | Woodville had seized £10,250 in English gold coin from the vessel on the grounds that it was forfeit to the crown , and by the indenture bound himself to give the patron its value in English merchandise if that proved not to be the case . |
| 23 | Woodville had seized £1O,250 in English gold coin from the vessel on the grounds that it was forfeit to the crown , and by the indenture bound himself to give the patron its value in English merchandise if that proved not to be the case . |
| 24 | It already ran the staff restaurant at Heal 's when retail conglomerate Storehouse occupied the entire building , but the opportunity to introduce the multi-tenant system presented itself following the departure of Conran Design . |
| 25 | The Virginia Company had itself produced a subsidiary company which occupied the islands at first known officially as Somers Islands — though when Shakespeare wrote The Tempest some people already called them the Bermoothes , and Bermuda it remained for posterity . |
| 26 | During the 1960s , under the leadership of Terence O'Neill , the Unionist Parliamentary Party found itself devoting an increasing amount of time to questions of economic and social reform . |
| 27 | The situation where one French machinegun section found itself holding a hole in the front two hundred yards wide with its two machine guns for several days in complete detachment from the rest of the army , was by no means unique . |
| 28 | The USSR as such was held to have ‘ ended its existence ’ , but the members of the Commonwealth pledged themselves to discharge the obligations that arose from the 15,000 or so international treaties and agreements to which the USSR had been a party . |
| 29 | In addition , the year-long political deadlock had itself become an election issue because the weak coalitions formed after the previous elections had been unable to deal with the economic crisis and the growth of urban terrorism . |
| 30 | It is possible that the Bishop had himself received an ordnance from a higher authority . |