Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 2 | In my self-conscious zeal to improve myself , I had placed a regular order for the London Times , not a paper normally stocked by that small newsagent . |
| 3 | ‘ And how are my little chickens behaving themselves ? ’ |
| 4 | Now , my natural caution exerted itself as I stared round the banqueting hall . |
| 5 | Nevertheless he maintained a friendly attitude towards me and after my initial difficulty made himself available whenever he was needed . |
| 6 | Once or twice I started swinging very badly , but as I was using my only hand to stop myself bleeding to death , I was unable to do anything about it . |
| 7 | My sharp teeth sink themselves into its nose . |
| 8 | One of her contacts had breathed the information down the telephone and she had clambered aboard Perfidia , her professional charm switching itself on and eager to deal with any obstacles between her curiosity and The Truth . |
| 9 | Perhaps when pregnant with me , my mother was hit on the head by a ‘ No Vehicular Access ’ sign , and her understandable anxiety transmitted itself to my foetal subconscious . |
| 10 | Her mobile features squeezed themselves around sulkily . |
| 11 | Dinah had taken the pins out of her hair , and its rich length unravelled itself down her back ; she stood before him , Juliet again , innocent and unbound . |
| 12 | While her unpleasant husband shut himself in his room and wrote letters , she explored the island with Paul Masson and for the first time in her life ‘ tasted and touched the salt , the sand , the seaweed , the odorous soft bed of the receding sea , the dripping fish ’ . |
| 13 | As scored here the woodwind and horns are pitted against each other , the character of the music with its fanfare-like subject lending itself well to such treatment . |
| 14 | Fire raced through her blood , her slim arms winding themselves instinctively about his neck , the throbbing of his heartbeat seeming to echo that of her own . |
| 15 | Mitzi was immediately conscious of pain and seconds later of the table upturning and its entire contents spreading themselves across the parquet . |
| 16 | Ovum and spermatozoon will now fuse together as one cell , the nuclei combining and their chromosomal contents re-arranging themselves in their pairs . |
| 17 | Being encouraged to resent what has often been the well-spring of their humanity , they can not grow from the experiences by accepting the inner scars as evidence of their worthy struggle to overcome themselves . |
| 18 | One thing which all these therapies have in common is their belief in the innate healing powers of the body ( the vis medicatrix naturae or healing force of nature ) and they are designed to try and help the body in its natural drive to heal itself . |
| 19 | Perhaps Marcus had read her previous reticence to give herself completely to him as boredom with the scenario of casual individual relationships which were par for the course for their contemporaries , and had laid on a partner-swapping party to titillate her interest . |
| 20 | Why did he remain voiceless while her high-pitched utterances spat themselves about ? |
| 21 | Her relationship with her father , a pushy parent intent on moulding his daughter into a prodigious pianist , is perceptively drawn , as is her self-destructive decision to cut herself off from music after her marriage , where the only outlets for her frustration are manic housework and an unsatisfying affair . |
| 22 | ‘ They 'd get done in if they did it 'ere , ’ said Nancy , using her healthy roundness to expel herself from the jammed-up doorway . |
| 23 | You never saw such a frenzy as her frantic rush to dress herself , me pulling outfits from the wardrobe , she rejecting them as fast as they landed on the bed , trying on and discarding until she stood there in a stew of irritation and indecision in nothing but bra and panties . |
| 24 | As for revolution , " The men who have been entrusted with the stewardship , the fortunes and the destinies of the trade union movement have too sound a conception of their great responsibilities to allow themselves to be stampeded into hare-brained enterprises at the bidding of any madcap missionary of reckless revolt . " |
| 25 | Without realizing it , their orchestral accompaniment fined itself to the quality of her voice . |
| 26 | John Winant , the US ambassador in Britain , wrote on 28 February that this reflected Britain 's concern with security rather than with ‘ commercial enterprise ’ ; ‘ It also reflects the British apprehension that they may be swamped competitively by US aviation and their consequent desire to guarantee themselves a percentage , even though small , of the available business . ’ |
| 27 | As their lips met , the urgency of their mutual need declared itself . |
| 28 | For many Arab people , their ambivalence about supporting Saddam Hussein is secondary to their desperate need to rid themselves of a system imposed by outside forces ; a system that enables a small ruling Arab elite to plunder the region 's resources , siphoning off cheap oil to the West , while millions of Arabs live in dire poverty , struggling to survive the economic blows dealt to the Arab nation by the West . |
| 29 | That is , where the Berlin Secession defined itself against the Wilhelmine state , its Viennese counterpart defined itself against the bourgeois values of the Ringstrasse culture of the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 30 | No one saw her distressed figure letting herself into her room . |