Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Sunderland striker steadied himself before blasting an unstoppable left-foot drive past Karavaev . |
| 2 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 3 | The March gale hurled itself against Mr Whittaker 's windows . |
| 4 | JIM COURIER redeemed himself for past Davis Cup failures by beating Switzerland 's Jakob Hlasek in Fort Worth , Texas last night to clinch the Cup for the United States for the 30th time since 1900 . |
| 5 | This time instead of relying on her own memories stemming from her childhood centred around the home in Priesthouse Lane where she was born and still lives , Miss Rimmer armed herself with a tape recorder and interviewed the town 's oldest residents ranging in age from 70 to 99 . |
| 6 | ‘ Monsieur Gaston concerned himself with other things . ’ |
| 7 | For all the enigmas in his career , Wojciech Jaruzelski seems himself to be the prototype of what the USSR has come to trust most in the Polish military outlook . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , David Speedie puts himself in the shop window at St Andrews tonight . |
| 9 | Haile Selassie seated himself on a crimson throne , and shortly afterwards the Empress took her place on a smaller throne . |
| 10 | In the Champion Hurdle , which he won at 50-1 and in the Sandeman Hurdle at Liverpool , where at 10-1 he gave weight and a beating to some of the best hurdlers in training , Beech Road established himself as an outstanding champion , and although he did not win the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle on Saturday , he confirmed his position at the top of the tree . |
| 11 | At an adjoining table , Sharon Dudley and David Wilson described themselves as consultant marketists — they sell discount cards on the basis that ‘ it gives people the stuff they want for three-quarters of the normal price and the shops would rather get 75 per cent of something than nothing in recessionary times ’ . |
| 12 | Although the latter point was delivered as a subtext it was as plain as all the rest and Miss Skelton knew herself to be in the ring . |
| 13 | For the next few years , David Whitaker immersed himself in all aspects of writing for Television . |
| 14 | Ellen Harker seated herself on one of the crates thoughtfully provided by Mother Bombie , drew a gentle breath and began : |
| 15 | In view of these deficiencies , it was hardly surprising that the reformers who centred on the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich addressed themselves to transforming the courts very soon after Alexander II ascended the throne . |
| 16 | IT was disgusting for David Mellor to compare himself to Captain Oates of the ill-fated Antarctic expedition led by Scott . |
| 17 | With his whining , nasal , urban voice , there are moments when he is the weedy boy at the summer camp or Woody Allen finding himself in the South American jungles in Bananas . |
| 18 | It is doubtful whether many of the denizens of Admass society saw themselves as victims in the way Priestley did . |
| 19 | In less than three years after his demob from the self-indulgent pastures of the peacetime RAF , Richard Burton turned himself into a great young classical actor — the heir and very apparent to Gielgud and Olivier ; and Hollywood was on the line , fishing for a new star . |
| 20 | David Rosen centred himself between the two tall people with his arms raised , a referee weighing his introduction . |
| 21 | Mother Bombie settled herself on a crate in the corner and assumed an air of pious resignation . |
| 22 | Corbett Farraday let himself into the moderately imposing Edwardian villa which he shared with his mother . |
| 23 | Penny Warlock , Toby Freely and Corbett Farraday grouped themselves around a rickety occasional table , on which was perched one of Mrs Crumwallis 's repulsive collections of cacti . |
| 24 | Trainer Andy Turnell blamed himself for Katabatic 's defeat : ‘ I might have left him short of a gallop , ’ he admitted . |
| 25 | Mrs. Mounce busied herself with being kind to Tessa , too . |
| 26 | The Renault Safrane presents itself as an executive express , so this was an appropriate exercise , involving poorly-surfaced roads in Czechoslovakia , the smooth by-ways of Austria and Switzerland , and Germany 's limit-free autobahns . |
| 27 | COVER-UP TOPLESS Fergie shields herself during her holiday in France with her Texan millionaire adviser and friend John Bryan |
| 28 | But that would still mean the year with the terrible Mother Clare to qualify herself for any kind of work . |
| 29 | On the day Colonel Hope announced himself in the yard of the Queen 's Head in Keswick , Coleridge , a few hundred yards away , was writing a letter which included the sentence ‘ I have always found a stretched and anxious frame of mind favourable to depths of pleasurable impression . ’ |
| 30 | Sergeant Henley prided herself on her power to prise out information by a mixture of persuasion and light bullying like the icing on a cake , and although this had never worked particularly well with Roxie in the past , this was no reason not to try it now . |