Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb base] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SWEET JESUS : ‘ Albino Ballerina ’ / ‘ Your Baby Loves Me ’ West Midlands-based glamour pop four-piece follow their recent UK support spots with Pop Will Eat Itself with a double A-side |
| 2 | Go on Richard help yourself to a drink . |
| 3 | The McCullochs turned into their cottage with a brief good-night and Cameron , James , and Allan let themselves into the tall , silent house along the road . |
| 4 | Each year groups from mainland Spain find themselves at the house of the White Dove , a name symbolic of the peace and comfort which they experience through his caring approach . |
| 5 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 6 | The United Kingdom will continue to develop our good relations with the Soviet Union and its republics , and to encourage their integration into the world economy ; and will work to help Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania re-establish themselves in the international community . |
| 7 | [ PAMELA and BELVILLE dress themselves for the Masquerade ; PAMELA as a Puritan girl and BELVILLE as a Spanish nobleman . |
| 8 | DEL Amitri see themselves as a laid-back , fashionably unfashionable rock group . |
| 9 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 10 | The division between labour and capital was therefore a nationalist and ethnic one rather than a class one , even though Zuwaya cast themselves in the role of capitalist entrepreneurs , for example when they defended free markets against state-controlled ones . |
| 11 | Although both James and Miller concern themselves with the effects of attaching verbal responses to the cues to be discriminated , there is no reason to restrict the analysis they offer to such responses . |
| 12 | A day later , Corbett sat on the edge of his own bed in Leighton Manor watching Maeve busy herself round the room . |
| 13 | That J&F Johnston find themselves in the Middle East at all is a testament to the good works of Scottish Trade International , the joint Scottish Enterprise/Scottish Office agency . |
| 14 | But until they get any money back , the Tysons find themselves in the position of the gambler who gambled all and lost . |
| 15 | The peacekeepers in New York pride themselves on a brand-new 24-hour operations room . |
| 16 | Summit Brass knock out the fanfare dramatically enough , but the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies excel themselves in a completely idiomatic and superbly recorded performance of Copland 's Ballet Suite — for which they won a Grammy award on its original release . |
| 17 | When Winston Smith and O'Brien pledge themselves to a revolution against dictatorship , the toast is not to the future but to the past which , as O'Brien puts it with mock gravity , is ‘ more important ’ . |
| 18 | Perhaps we might have a look at things , at this stage , through the eyes of young Benjamin Titford , the youngest surviving son , left motherless at nine years old ; waving his big brother William Charles goodbye as he set off for London soon afterwards ; watching brother John cough himself into an early grave ; listening to endless conversations about high prices , shortages , and a war across the channel ; dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night to cries of ‘ Fire ! ’ and ‘ Flood ! ’ ; struggling to keep warm every winter ; watching his father die of a long illness — these experiences made his childhood , in modern terms , an awful , albeit a dramatic one . |
| 19 | But the IRA characterise themselves in a more discernible form , participating in movements of national liberation from colonialist powers in recognisable patterns of nineteenth- and twentieth-century political experience . |
| 20 | Tynesiders see themselves as a seafaring people with all that implies . |