Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the terrified actress locked herself in the car , he rammed it with his Ford Bronco . |
| 2 | The former England striker injured himself in the Coca-Cola Cup replay with Everton on Tuesday and a specialist has advised complete rest . |
| 3 | He was a chaser of the highest class , and had not other horses of unproven stamina excelled themselves in the National ? |
| 4 | MODEL Jerry Hall put herself in the picture when she opened an art show yesterday . |
| 5 | The anti-bloodsports campaigner threw himself in the Amazon 's path , brandishing his clipboard . |
| 6 | Nutmeg washed himself in the park pond nearby + sat down + thought for a while . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A man and his wife positioned themselves in the middle of one of the tree-lined avenues and sang ballads to a harmonica . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One of the notable ways in which the Spirit expressed himself in the Christian community was through creating unity . |
| 15 | Evening fell early over Lydia 's garden while the rest of the valley preened itself in the setting sun . |
| 16 | The artist put himself in the picture ; he is the man with the black beard and cap . |
| 17 | Corruption revealed itself in the guise of brutalisation . |
| 18 | History sold itself in the schools of interwar Britain . |
| 19 | But before long , the company found itself in the midst of the early 1980s ' recession , an event that , by Mr Garner 's own admission , nearly finished TI off for good . |
| 20 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 21 | By the time the British railway system stabilised itself in the late 1860s , every foot of rail between the Scottish border , the Pennine hills , the sea and the River Humber was controlled by the North-eastern Railway . |
| 22 | It was when they decided to return to shore that a terrible storm unleashed itself in the Moray Firth . |
| 23 | A final essential advantage for the party manifested itself in the general election campaign , when Attlee , for so long the ‘ unknown Opposition Leader ’ , came to notice as a sober and responsible figure apparently capable of assuming the reins of government . |
| 24 | Neither party involved themselves in the messy business of seeking votes in the province , democracy was n't mentioned . |
| 25 | A fly drowned itself in the puddle . |
| 26 | The probability is that the murderer washed himself in the kitchen . ’ |