Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Williams , prosecuting , said she woke up to find herself in a hotel room with her hands tied behind her back . |
| 2 | I tried new drivers — Armenians , Indians , Arabs , blacks — but ended up driving myself in a rented car . |
| 3 | She is lined up to play herself in a Hollywood movie about a sex scandal MP . |
| 4 | Okay , hang on , on finding yourself in a wrong lane at a junction , Dan Dan |
| 5 | The first occurs at the transition from the institution to independence , when the girls were often in need of help and about to launch themselves on a course in life from which it might be hard to turn back . |
| 6 | She seemed about to launch herself into a speech but then thought better of it . |
| 7 | In the morning Alix was about to apply herself to a file of Home Office statistics when the phone rang . |
| 8 | One day , just as he is about to throw himself off a cliff , he sees Custer riding for Little Big Horn . |