Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they 'd come out of the house , he 'd shaken himself free of the women and had now adopted a surly silence . |
| 2 | Jules had tactfully made himself scarce on the pretext of work to be done at the new salon and now , two days after his visit to Maythorpe House , Harry was at last able to unburden himself . |
| 3 | I wish that the hon. Gentleman had made himself familiar with the two judgments in the case — those of Mr. Justice Simon Brown and of the Master of the Rolls . |
| 4 | Nigel had once made himself unpopular at the office by writing in his column that women past thirty should shoot themselves . |
| 5 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 6 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
| 7 | Then the goat had made itself evident in the warm air . |
| 8 | ‘ Go and see who it is , will you , there 's a duck , ’ requested Constance , who had just made herself comfortable on the swinging seat . |
| 9 | Both Michael Lynagh and David Campese have made themselves available for the tournament . |
| 10 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 11 | Once you have made yourself familiar with the basic sewing processes , you will then be able to cope with any of the projects in this book . |
| 12 | ‘ I think he 'd got himself involved with the law . |
| 13 | Oh ma'am if only I had shown myself strong in the face of temptation ! |
| 14 | And to compound the problem , the local planning authority had shown themselves unsympathetic to the owner 's over-ambitious plans for rebuilding . |
| 15 | Since its inception in 1984 the Middlesbrough 10k Road Race and Fun Run has proved itself one of the premier events of its kind in the North-East . |
| 16 | Money had proved itself flimsy in the face of those imponderables . |
| 17 | Against her will Polly had found herself curious about the subject of such intense speculation . |
| 18 | WITHAM Town A have prised themselves clear of the relegation battle in Division One of the Chelmsford and District Table Tennis League with victories over NatWest A and Maldon A. |
| 19 | Roy Wegerle , the £1 million Rangers newcomer who has declared himself available to the United States , was last night offered the chance of an alternative route to the World Cup next summer by Bobby Robson . |
| 20 | He had cut himself loose from the past and had good hopes of making a comfortable landfall . |
| 21 | The rebel republic has already declared itself independent from the Soviet Union and President Gorbachev threatened grave consequences if its parliament does n't renounce the decision . |
| 22 | Hytner , Warner and Branagh have declared themselves uninterested in the executive hassle of running our large subsidised companies . |
| 23 | If we 'd blown the network because of the hostages we would have left ourselves blind in the middle of a minefield . |
| 24 | By running for deputy , he has left himself open to the accusation that he has no hope of becoming leader . |
| 25 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 26 | Their suspicions were borne out by a careful analysis of six different tumours ; in each case the viral promotor turned out , as expected , to have inserted itself next to the proto-oncogene myc . |
| 27 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 28 | This reflects his enduring excellence as well as the titleholder 's puzzling lack of recent form , having established himself top of the domestic pack last season , writes Richard Jago . |