Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 2 | She has also sketched herself slumped on the floor , with her mother brandishing a syringe and a key . |
| 3 | After much deliberation and in great sorrow , the family of Don Antonio Beatillo , learned laureate and doctor , glory of the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Naples , have resolved themselves to appeal against the last will and testament of their beloved and revered father , made in January last year , as being composed by the deceased when not in his right mind . ’ |
| 4 | He had heard himself squeak in a long-outgrown pre-pubertal voice . |
| 5 | Beside him , against the wall , he had placed those things he had seen himself use in the dream — a blanket and his old porcelain water-bottle . |
| 6 | Although watches were extremely rare before the late seventeenth century , the influence of mechanical timekeeping had already made itself felt in a variety of ways , besides those already mentioned . |
| 7 | Former Puma star , Marcelo Loffreda , thinks that ‘ Our rugby as a whole has deteriorated due to the way it has been managed by our officials and this crisis has made itself felt in the Pumas in the last two years . |
| 8 | There must be very many such incidents in which his influence has made itself felt in the West Riding ; and many staff and children who , without knowing it , have cause to be grateful for his work for them . |
| 9 | I wondered whether it was because neither of them had stirred herself to go through the contortions attendant upon attracting men , but it was n't that . |
| 10 | She is never entirely comfortable until she has surveyed those before her , put them mentally in their places and seen herself rise to the top in doing so . |
| 11 | ‘ It is that hard , ’ he said ominously , and I thought of John Maggovertski 's sadness for a pretty girl who had whored herself to pay for the white powder . |
| 12 | Having said that , I do know how overpowering they can be ; indeed , I have felt myself withering in the face of a three-year-old 's wilfulness . |
| 13 | Perhaps he had got himself moved to the bigger town , or perhaps he had gone home to London as some of the children had done . |
| 14 | Bunny had got himself invited to a party down in Fulham at a house rented by four air hostesses who worked for Cathay Pacific . |
| 15 | McLeish made a conscientious note , feeling that he had got himself sidetracked off the more interesting question of Angela Morgan 's capital investment in Yeo Davis . |
| 16 | From what her mother had told her the experience would be horrendous and she had cried herself to sleep for the past week thinking about it . |
| 17 | The mute teenager has also drawn herself bound to a bed being forced to take part in a ceremony , and slumped on the floor , with her mother holding a syringe and a key . |
| 18 | The mute teenager has also drawn herself bound to a bed , being forced to take part in a ceremony . |
| 19 | No , instead she had got herself fitted with a big , bossy secretary 's pair . |
| 20 | Oh yes , attached to it , and you 've just had yourself taped by the way . |
| 21 | they 've got themselves stuck on the nine o'clock appointment |
| 22 | I might well have got myself burned upon a stake , although in those days that was n't all that difficult . |
| 23 | Films screened in public cinemas are subject to the test of obscenity , although the film industry , in order to obtain additional insurance against prosecution , has voluntarily bound itself to comply with the censorship requirements of the British Board of Film Classification , a private body established and funded by the industry itself . |
| 24 | Miraculously , within a couple of minutes , he 'd found himself speaking to a woman he 'd kissed goodbye in the early May of 1944 — over forty-six years ago ! |
| 25 | He had found himself looking into the infinitely complex growth of stem and grass and leaf and tendril and fine twig that covered the moor in a thick springy upholstery , but also beyond this , through and beside this , into clear darkness . |
| 26 | He had found himself trapped in a room with doors made up of huge , sliding slabs of rock all round it . |
| 27 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 28 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |
| 29 | To the south , off Java , we could detect where the mouth of the Lampong river lay , where another survivor , a fisherman , had found himself floundering in a furious inrushing sea , and had seized and ridden for miles inland what he had thought was a log , but discovered to be an equally terrified crocodile . |
| 30 | Although the " offices " might be peripatetic , going outside Rome with the pope , and although the pope might still play a dominant personal part , only a total reversal of policy — an annihilation of the authority the papacy had set itself to achieve during the previous 150 years — could have stemmed the march towards authority and central administrative offices . |