Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 2 | We left Paris by the Porte D'Orleans and found ourselves back amongst the tilled meadows and windmills which ring the city . |
| 3 | We also found ourselves together in the middle of the LA riots — two days of mayhem without a cop in sight — so I guess that brought us closer together ! |
| 4 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 5 | The Emperor , who had set out to find a partner in a European congress found himself instead with an ally engaged in a European war . |
| 6 | In the summer of 1675 , in the course of Louis XIV 's Dutch War , he found himself up against the great imperial general Montecucculi , who in the previous year had outmanoeuvred Turenne to capture Bonn . |
| 7 | It is a situation much worse than the one Smith found himself in before the game with FC Brugge two weeks ago and could involve some drastic re-organisation . |
| 8 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 9 | But as the most famous boxer in the modern history of the game , Tyson found himself back in an environment he hoped he had turned his back on for ever . |
| 10 | As a result of all this , Baldwin found himself back in the Caxton Hall by 30 October . |
| 11 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 12 | The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition . |
| 13 | However , with record companies realising the appeal and financial benefits of bands like Sabbath having a line-up as close to the original as possible , Neil found himself out in the cold after Geezer Butler was reunited with his former partners . |
| 14 | Rincewind looked around wildly , and then with wild improvisation drew himself up into a wizardly pose . |
| 15 | He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air . |
| 16 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 17 | He gradually built himself up to a third championship in 1984 , when he emerged champion by just half a point from his McLaren team-mate Alain Prost in one of the sport 's closest battles . |
| 18 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 19 | As the ethereal strains of Ravel stole through the room , Penry let himself down on the sofa , eyes closed . |
| 20 | Cathy went into the shop and Wycliffe let himself out into the little hall from which stairs led up to the flat . |
| 21 | He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door . |
| 22 | Seb let himself out through the gate and Carrie was half-way back to the house when his soft call brought her to a halt . |
| 23 | He let himself out of the front door and when he was beyond the shelter of the porch he felt the sting of rain on his cheeks . |
| 24 | Duncan let himself out of the car as Myeloski walked round to him . |
| 25 | Then , looking at the man as if he was so much dirt , he let himself out of the front door . |
| 26 | When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door . |
| 27 | He listened before he let himself out of the cellar , but there still seemed to be nobody around ; Reynolds felt gritty and smeared , at an unhappy disadvantage if he should have to lie his way out of an embarrassing situation . |
| 28 | Plainly the man who wrote this was the man who in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley took as his model and master Gautier , who described himself proudly as a man ‘ pour qui le monde visible existe ’ . |
| 29 | At no. 6 lived Anne Knight , a widow born in Horningsham , Wilts. , where , by coincidence , a number of Titfords had been baptised in the mid-17th century ; no. 8 contained the Tomlinson family , a hay salesman 's bookkeeper from Norwich ; George Childs at no. 10 described himself grandly as a ‘ Landscape Painter ’ , and at no. 14 a lady called Mary Archer was in business as a private lodging-house keeper , assisted by Eliza Wade , her 17-year-old servant from Stepney . |
| 30 | Dexter levered himself up from the chair , his eyelids leaden with sleep , and murmured that he had to go home and rest . |