Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pn reflx] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 2 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 3 | When the terrified actress locked herself in the car , he rammed it with his Ford Bronco . |
| 4 | The former England striker injured himself in the Coca-Cola Cup replay with Everton on Tuesday and a specialist has advised complete rest . |
| 5 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 6 | He was a chaser of the highest class , and had not other horses of unproven stamina excelled themselves in the National ? |
| 7 | One thrust of this revolt displayed itself in a widespread attachment to the established church of the pre-1625 period , with its more relaxed doctrinal approach that was able to accommodate the beliefs of Richard Hooker as well as those of the compilers of the Lambeth Articles ; the other took the form of the ‘ left-wing Arminianism ’ of radical groups such as the General Baptists and Quakers , who rejected the rigidities of predestination in favour of the belief that all could attain salvation , and who , it is argued , won much popular support as a consequence . |
| 8 | MODEL Jerry Hall put herself in the picture when she opened an art show yesterday . |
| 9 | The anti-bloodsports campaigner threw himself in the Amazon 's path , brandishing his clipboard . |
| 10 | In Prussia the crisis manifested itself in a variety of ways . |
| 11 | The 34027 Locomotive Group found themselves in a similar position with a well-loaded train being cancelled within sight of the locomotive being prepared , so to speak . |
| 12 | For a while , the most successful pop groups had the power to shift mass consciousness to an unprecedented degree and this confidence expressed itself in a plethora of new sexualities brought into the public eye , offered up for public consumption and then put into practice in people 's lives . |
| 13 | Those who preferred the pretence of business immersed themselves in a book and , from time to time , made an ostentatious note . |
| 14 | Nutmeg washed himself in the park pond nearby + sat down + thought for a while . |
| 15 | Improvements in the general conditions of blacks had taken place between Johnson 's era , when white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan articulated deeply-held sentiments , when at least three hundred and fifty blacks were illegally lynched and mixed marriages were forbidden , and that of Ali , when conflict manifested itself in the Watts riots and radicalism came in the form of the black power movements . |
| 16 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 17 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 18 | The other concealed itself in a discarded leather shoe . |
| 19 | A man and his wife positioned themselves in the middle of one of the tree-lined avenues and sang ballads to a harmonica . |
| 20 | There was not a word said of business until they came to table in Isambard 's great hall , where the envoy found himself in the place of honour at his host 's right hand . |
| 21 | The woman busied herself in the kitchen and produced a plate piled high like a cairn with potatoes , and a huge pot of tea , and then resumed her knitting by the fire opposite her husband . |
| 22 | On the other hand this skulking novelist told himself in a notebook , as we recall , ‘ I am a character ’ ; and there is every reason why the narrating ‘ I ’ of The Possessed should be perfectly visible . |
| 23 | To sum up , in 1922 the Soviet government found itself in a situation similar to that of the late Tsarist regime , which in its final years had grasped the connection between literacy and modernization and between formal schoolwork and social control . |
| 24 | The government found itself in a difficult diplomatic position , given the fierce denial of the allegations by the Belgian authorities . |
| 25 | On the basis of proposals put forward by Kohl the heads of state and government committed themselves in an annexed document to reach unanimous agreement by Dec. 31 , 1993 , on a treaty to establish a Central European Criminal Investigation Office ( " Europol " ) . |
| 26 | Under the rule of the Incas this inertia expressed itself in the stagnation of commerce … in the lack of vitality and the absence of originality in the arts , in dogmatism in science , and in the rareness of even the simplest inventions . |
| 27 | One of the notable ways in which the Spirit expressed himself in the Christian community was through creating unity . |
| 28 | Evening fell early over Lydia 's garden while the rest of the valley preened itself in the setting sun . |
| 29 | The artist put himself in the picture ; he is the man with the black beard and cap . |
| 30 | Corruption revealed itself in the guise of brutalisation . |