Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , robots were paying for themselves within two and a half years ( Thurow , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | For a while , the seif-centred members of celebrity circles were falling over themselves in their eagerness to jump on the bandwagon . |
| 3 | she were talking to herself in the end ! |
| 4 | He was irritated with himself for being so pathetic . |
| 5 | She was irritated with herself for thinking like a spy , for slipping into Urquhart 's world of suspicion and conspiracy , and as she became more irritated with herself , she became sharp with her companion . |
| 6 | She was irritated with herself for feeling nervous . |
| 7 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 8 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 9 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 10 | but , I was listening to myself on that |
| 11 | What I was listening to myself on that . |
| 12 | Beside her , Alan Markby was grinning to himself as if he knew what she was thinking . |
| 13 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 14 | I was called to myself by the echoing hoot of the ferry 's siren , to find that the shop had emptied of its crowd , and the postmistress , taking off her spectacles , was hurrying round to the store counter to look after the stranger . |
| 15 | The question of what he was to do with himself for the rest of his life was never properly resolved in his mind or anyone else 's , which perhaps accounts for his periodic assaults on the whiskey bottle — what Minto called ‘ Warnie 's benders ’ . |
| 16 | Sprawled over them were two more eunuchs ; one was staring at herself in a mirror , applying lipstick , the other was combing her hair . |
| 17 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
| 18 | She was muttering to herself about it crossly , and nearly cannoned into Travis , who had stopped in his tracks at the sounds issuing from behind him . |
| 19 | She was fighting with herself about whether to draw nearer to him , despite the danger of that , and see if he was all right , when he spoke again . |
| 20 | And then Ellie was exasperated with herself for even caring . |
| 21 | Dunan was there , flailing like a maniac , whilst Mullach was laying about himself with something like ecstasy written all over his brutal face . |
| 22 | Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box . |
| 23 | ( Miklós was chuckling to himself at this . ) |