Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Robin still hungered for a night on the traps : so we found ourselves at the Harold Park Hotel , the crowds milling into the street , silhouetted against the lights of the adjacent Greyhound track . |
| 2 | Without doing much more he found himself in the Scotland ‘ B ’ team to play Ireland at the end of December and the Scottish trial a week later . |
| 3 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 4 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 5 | That morning an advertisement appeared in the Belfast News Letter warning that a body which described itself as the Ulster Workers Council would call a general strike if the Assembly approved the Sunningdale agreement . |
| 6 | This was built for United Air Lines as DC-3A-197B NC 18942 in April 1948 and served with series of US operators until it found itself in the Sudan ( as N8044 ) in 1976 , before going to South Africa and joining Caprivi Airways in 1978 as ZS-KEX . |
| 7 | She opened a door , and found herself in the Bacon room . |
| 8 | I soon found myself at the Gasthof Lôwen in the little village of Sasbach . |
| 9 | I found myself in the Alps with a narrow pass before me , began to ascend the rough and desolate track . |
| 10 | As Hollywood history has shown , Curtis recognized that he did have a drug problem when , in 1984 , he admitted himself into the Betty Ford Alcoholic and Drugs Treatment Center for treatment for his drug abuse and alcoholism . |
| 11 | Don lowered himself onto the Chesterfield . |
| 12 | The point is that Knighton , for all the ludicrous exhibitionism with which he announced himself to the Stretford End , decided to withdraw , despite evidence that he could indeed finance the original deal . |
| 13 | He suggested that in the meantime we should visit the Arussi mountains ; this would enable us to assess our men and , if necessary , change some before we committed ourselves to the Danakil country . |
| 14 | The former England striker injured himself in the Coca-Cola Cup replay with Everton on Tuesday and a specialist has advised complete rest . |
| 15 | Convinced he needed therapy , Lowe booked himself into the Sierra Tucson Rehabilitation Clinic in Arizona . |
| 16 | Jordan had turned to Saudi Arabia for its oil supplies when it committed itself to the UN embargo on trade with Iraq and Kuwait [ see p. 37639 ] . |
| 17 | Kate told herself as the Porsche leapt forward as if pleased to be released from this rather unfashionable and cheap part of London which was the only place she could afford to live in a small flat by herself . |
| 18 | When Richard Branson took over negotiations from Fields in March , Wilson and a team of Boeing executives and lawyers flew to Britain , installed themselves in the Carlton Towers hotel in Knightsbridge and prepared to make a killing . |
| 19 | Willi 's strong , stocky body inserted itself under the Direktor 's arm and he supported him out through the theatre door towards the car . |
| 20 | Improvements in the general conditions of blacks had taken place between Johnson 's era , when white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan articulated deeply-held sentiments , when at least three hundred and fifty blacks were illegally lynched and mixed marriages were forbidden , and that of Ali , when conflict manifested itself in the Watts riots and radicalism came in the form of the black power movements . |
| 21 | The anti-bloodsports campaigner threw himself in the Amazon 's path , brandishing his clipboard . |
| 22 | Besides having confidence in his artistic and physical abilities , he had a great passion for Nature as she showed herself in the Lake District which not only initiated his venture but maintained it all his life . |
| 23 | Both she and Bernard were continually taken aback by the way their staff threw themselves into the Ashley enterprise — although they expected nothing less and , in different ways it was they who inspired their employees to rise above whatever talents they thought they could offer . |
| 24 | If anyone did maybe they threw themselves into the Aire after leaving the ground ; - ) |
| 25 | Of 223 defaulters at the Pickering Forest eyre of 1334 , only nineteen finally surrendered themselves at the York county court in August 1338 ; the remainder , who had no lands or chattels by which they could be distrained were outlawed . |
| 26 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 27 | They totally dissociated themselves from the Rowdies , who they thought of as kids , who , by mouthing off all the time , started trouble which was left to them to finish off . |
| 28 | Mr Thomas Rideout , his successor as Conservative premier , called a snap election for April 20th and distanced himself from the Peckford follies . |
| 29 | ‘ Gloucester positioned himself on the Guildhall steps — in the forefront of the assembly . ’ |
| 30 | In summary , Martin emerges as a master maker renowned for flutes and musettes , who , after his marriage in 1666 , established himself at the Enclos du palais ( working with his father from at least 1668 ) . |