Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Oh yes , attached to it , and you 've just had yourself taped by the way . |
| 15 | they 've got themselves stuck on the nine o'clock appointment |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The CNAA has also found itself drawn into the dispute between Huddersfield Polytechnic and its local authority , Kirklees Metropolitan Council , where , in 1980 , it felt itself obliged to write to both parties : to the council stressing the need to provide more funds and to the polytechnic strongly advising it temporarily to drop its intention of introducing new courses . |
| 22 | But after the disorientation of the first few seconds she had found herself entranced by the city below her spread out like a living map . |
| 23 | Emily smiled , her aunt could be a holy terror but tonight she would be on her best behaviour because the élite of the Swansea gentry would be at the Race Ball and Aunt Sophie had not found herself invited into the social circles lately , not since Craig 's arrest . |
| 24 | Rural councils have found themselves hamstrung by the centralized control of local authority expenditure ( particularly during the periods of economic stagnation and crisis ) and , in the case of housing , by the imposition of cost yardsticks which rarely take account of the peculiar difficulties which many rural councils face from the heavier costs incurred in housing provision in remote areas . |
| 25 | It 's not the first time punters , who bet £1.6billion a year just on the dogs , have found themselves cornered in the doghouse . |
| 26 | Some of those unwilling to follow this route have quickly found themselves passing into the hands of the ultimate willing vendor , the receiver . |
| 27 | They have also found themselves agreeing to the introduction of temporary workers in return for employers granting increased job security for the majority of the labour force . |
| 28 | Schools also found themselves expropriated by the ARP or other military or civil defence organisations . |
| 29 | A few very large and affluent City firms have adapted themselves to act as the agents and advisers of commerce and industry ; they have modern offices with every aid and convenience , and the partners specialise intensively . |
| 30 | I have a list here of people in my particular part of the profession who have pledged themselves to assist with the great drive forward for the seventy fifth anniversary . |