Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pn reflx] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is how she came to find herself in such an embarrassing position . |
| 2 | At the same time , different peoples , sometimes referred to as barbarians , began to establish themselves in different parts of Europe and evolve their own culture , sometimes Christian , sometimes not , but the former was not necessarily more civilised than the latter . |
| 3 | It indicates the means whereby a form of Christianity which entirely circumvented the Pauline orthodoxy of Rome began to establish itself in Western Europe . |
| 4 | This faction began to organise itself in 1989 at the founding conference of the United Front of Workers ( OFR ) in Leningrad in July 1989 . |
| 5 | We all three had dinner together , then you went off with her to your room , where she was to stay , though how you managed to accommodate yourselves in that tiny room with its narrow bed was something I preferred not to think about . |
| 6 | Britain managed to isolate itself in international fora — such as the 35 Nation Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe ( UN ECE ) — by rejecting the scientific consensus that forest decline was linked to air pollution from industry , power stations and vehicles . |
| 7 | Mike Fitzpatrick capsized 2 minutes before the start but managed to right himself in such a position that he was first away on the gun although he was to drop back to 30th . |
| 8 | But that modern schools struggled to make themselves in various ways as academic as grammar schools did not entail any real equality between the two kinds of school . |
| 9 | Every morning , Mandru liked to indulge himself in religious spectacle , although the Ixmaritians all doubted whether this was inspired by faith and devotion . |
| 10 | It is said that he was found out by one of the groups of civilian vigilantes who sprang up spontaneously on 22 December : apparently he had disguised himself in ordinary working clothes and was driving a Dacia 1300 when stopped , but suspicion was aroused when a search of his car revealed citrus fruits , like oranges and pineapples , in the boot — no ordinary Romanian had access to them . |
| 11 | The Republicans had committed themselves in 1920 to remaining outside the League of Nations , and there was no serious attempt to reverse this policy subsequently . |
| 12 | Proponents of scientific inquiry would often argue that God had revealed Himself in two books — the book of His words ( the Bible ) and the book of His works ( nature ) . |
| 13 | After all , you had shown yourself in public . |
| 14 | When , three years ago , news of Implexion 's investiture into the Chamber of Ten had come to the Redoubt , Dauntless had locked himself in one of the private chapels for two days . |
| 15 | Despite his disappointment then , he continued to interest himself in Irish affairs . |
| 16 | She wore enormous shapeless skirts which looked as if they were made from old curtains or bedspreads , and baggy sweatshirts which she had dyed herself in dingy shades of rust , snot-green and pale mouldy purple . |
| 17 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 18 | Mr Ceausescu had encased himself in such an impeneterable fortress that Gorbachev spared the Romanian leader from the warning he was to deliver later to Erich Honecker , that ageing leaders who failed to reform in time would pay dearly . |
| 19 | The prize went to a pop singer who had attired himself in tartan trousers , a flower-patterned shirt and a sweater with zig-zag stripes . |
| 20 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 21 | She wished to offer herself in complete love , without demanding in return any limit to his interest in other people . |
| 22 | She remembered how she had submerged herself in scented water every day and sometimes twice in the sticky summertime and never would again , until she grew up and had a bathroom of her own . |
| 23 | ‘ The day was over , and from dawn to twilight , or rather from one night to another , I had lost myself in that symphony . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ And , to be fair to the boy , I possibly confused him , since when he very properly inquired as to whether or not I was a patient , I had to admit myself in some doubt on the point . ’ |
| 25 | She had disgraced herself in public , which was bad enough . |
| 26 | This was the first record of contact with a physic garden on the continent and so , within a few years , the Apothecaries ' garden had established itself in botanical circles . |
| 27 | A resilient alliance between Protestant theology and Aristotelian philosophy , which had established itself in different parts of Europe , remained particularly strong in Scotland during the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | In the Sixties , women had that kind of confidence and wanted to express themselves in that way . |
| 29 | Despite the time of year she intended to dress herself in mauve silk , a coat and skirt faced with regal purple and embellished with a cream lace jabot . |