Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] and [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Greed Is Good League threatens to fall apart — and who cares ? — while England 's team is outplayed in Spain , cricket 's selectors drop David Gower and hurl themselves into a whirlpool of crazy contradictions . |
| 2 | Hussa and the boy 's sister soon arrived from Al Ain and installed themselves in the adjoining bedrooms . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's the tie I like , ’ she said , opening one of their two copies of the Washington Post and burying herself behind it . |
| 4 | General Montgomery , who had been brought back from Italy to take a very prominent part in the ‘ D day ’ operation and the subsequent advance through France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , had been appointed Field Marshall and found himself considered a hero of the people , wherever he went . |
| 5 | But he has told former executives to extract themselves from jobs they managed to find in the Aquino era and hold themselves ready . |
| 6 | In those dark days when I was recovering from my knee injury I 'd play a video of an England match and upset myself all over again . |
| 7 | Please , Norman , take yourself off to Kilgour French in Savile Row and get yourself a decently cut coat . |
| 8 | A malinger round the monument is worth your while , if only for the extraordinary view down Loch Shiel and to reassure yourself that you will soon be leaving behind all the people milling idly around their coaches , to whom 1745 means quarter to six . |
| 9 | He should have pitched her into Foxton Mire and saved himself a lot of trouble . |
| 10 | The young prison officer simply signed out her personal issue pistol from the Maze armoury and shot herself . |
| 11 | ‘ Come in , Mr Brayton and sit yourself down . ’ |
| 12 | The worst thing that happened to me was that I was moved to another hut on the Waaf site and found myself amongst a very superior set of girls who worked in Radar . |
| 13 | Or perhaps she could be like Merlyn Joseph and find herself a rich man who would install her in a yacht . |
| 14 | Flamboyant Susan Allen , 25 , withdrew a pistol from the Maze Prison armoury on Monday night and shot herself in the head hours later at her Banbridge home . |
| 15 | This prospect is pleasing to me but I have seen Mr Landor and confess myself alarmed . |
| 16 | They show an African head and the story behind these is that during a battle in the 15th century , when all the Pucci adults were killed , an African slave hid a baby of the family under her garments and fled via an underground passage , thus saving the Pucci line and earning herself a place in the family 's heraldry . |
| 17 | Her bullet tore through Ma Katz and spent itself against the wall . |
| 18 | I 'd join the crimplene brigade , dress out of the Littlewoods club and resign myself to false teeth and a perm by the time I was 30 . |
| 19 | Between 1725 and 1762 , scores of once-powerful imperial favourites , courtiers , viziers , royal lovers , politicians , patricians and plotters fell foul of this or that faction or clique in St Petersburg and found themselves temporarily or permanently imprisoned or exiled beyond the Urals , still alive but incapable of joining in the political intrigues of the capital . |
| 20 | One was by cultivating the non-partisan persona of General de Gaulle and distancing himself whenever possible from the political party upon which his government depended . |
| 21 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 22 | When Blanche 's trunk has arrived Stanley looks through it to try to prove to Stella that Blanche has sold Belle Reve and bought herself pearls and diamonds and a huge selection of clothes . |
| 23 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 24 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 25 | Somehow she made her way down to the library , picked out the Dietrich films and forced herself to watch them until the early hours . |
| 26 | On route from Kilham to Lowthorpe , the heavy stone base of the cross fell off at Ruston Parva and embedded itself in the verge side there , from where it was rescued in recent years and now stands on Ruston Parva village green . |
| 27 | Mrs. Pridmore refilled the teapot from the kettle on the Aga hob and eased herself back into her chair . |
| 28 | Early on July 9 , 1982 , suffering from the strain of his marriage break-up , Mr Fagan climbed over the walls of Buckingham Palace and found himself — by chance — at the Queen 's bedside , he said . |
| 29 | The court made this ruling after obtaining the original documentation covering the Murcia results and satisfying itself as to their authenticity . |
| 30 | The people who wrote the original GLC-funded pre-feasibility study — Chris Walsh , Ben Lowe , Mike Power , Liz Cooper and Kit Sadgrove — met in a flat near Kings Cross and formed themselves , with the addition of five others , all friends , into the Founders ' Trust . |