Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every morning we woke to find ourselves surrounded by fresh tracks made by capybaras ( the world 's largest species of rodent , looking something like a giant guinea pig ) ; on our last evening , the boatman killed an alligator as it crawled past our camp-fire to go hunting in the reeds beyond . |
| 2 | It had a marked effect on those who read his poetry , and a few years later Leonard was to find himself tutored by one of Pound 's most sympathetic admirers and directed to the understanding of the American 's verse , somewhat to Leonard 's concern , as we shall see . |
| 3 | And if the recession continued much longer she might return to London to find herself looking for some other occupation to keep the roof over her head — but that was her secret . |
| 4 | After being very much the king/queen of the castle at secondary school it was a great eye opener to find herself surrounded by all these brilliant and clever people " . |
| 5 | ‘ I was not … ’ she began irritably , only to find herself talking to thin air as he ducked down and removed her shoe for her . |
| 6 | ( d ) Offices and employments As a matter of prudence , agreement should be reached at an early stage in the life of any firm whose partners , or some of them , are likely to find themselves appointed to some professional or public office as to : ( 1 ) whether remuneration from such offices should in principle be accounted for as part of the profits of the firm ( Clause 10.06 ) ; and ( 2 ) the amount of time any partner should be permitted to devote to such activities ( before his profit share suffers some downward adjustment ) . |
| 7 | And not content with berating Strauss he must move on to Hofmannsthal-bashing — an all too familiar exercise by those who read no German and are unable to find themselves moved by this sensitive poet 's imaginings . |
| 8 | LEO You are bound to find yourself thinking about all sorts of future possibilities now ! |
| 9 | Perhaps I have just become too comfortable with the cheering notion that women are far too busy getting on with their careers and their lives to crucify themselves worrying about ragged cuticles or the size of their ankles . |
| 10 | Children who are described as mildly mentally handicapped are often upset to hear themselves described as such , and such terms as ‘ children with learning difficulties ’ are now in vogue . |
| 11 | The tutorial bodies will have to gear themselves to cater for two sets of examinations at different times . |
| 12 | ( It is not unhelpful to imagine oneself standing in such a line : how would one decide whether to be blue , white , or red ? ) |
| 13 | This is quoted and endorsed by Meyers ( Homosexuality and Literature , 148 ) , who goes on to describe Lawrence 's Aaron 's Rod as possessing many components of ‘ a homosexual novel ’ including ‘ an intense hatred and fear of women , who are characterised in two male gatherings as threatening , frightening and repulsive ’ , and ‘ a symbolically castrated hero who is afraid to let himself go in heterosexual love and runs away from his three women ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 14 | Florrie asked , always keen to keep herself informed about local goings-on . |
| 15 | When I look back on my marriage I ca n't believe what a fool I was to allow myself to stay in that situation . |
| 16 | Because respectable England , being what it was , did not want to be waited upon by gangling adolescents with spots , nor to have itself paged by unmodulated voices that were just breaking , and youths in such positions invariably got the push when they grew out of the uniform , or lost their boyish looks . |
| 17 | Formal hunting scenes are firmly rooted in the traditions of the Persian Shahs and princelings who loved to have themselves depicted as noble hunters and horsemen ; such scenes represent the nearest examples of portraiture to be found in traditional rug designs . |
| 18 | War on the ground is really a man with a large field with curved corrugated metal huts to keep pigs in to grub all the vegetation off to feed them up to get themselves eaten by other men to help those men to have the energy to work to make the curved corrugated metal huts and grow other food in other fields that gets eaten by another lot of men who leave some of it to feed back to the pigs . |
| 19 | I 'm going to get myself shot for this . |
| 20 | The need for criminals to be secretive and not to advertise themselves adds to this uncertainty , and makes the study of crime more problematic than many other areas of sociological study . |
| 21 | The nature of the distinction , being a matter of identification , is such that it can be expected to make itself felt in attributive position , and only in attributive position . |
| 22 | Jenny was surprised to feel herself flattered by this hint of intimacy between them . |
| 23 | When Folly came round , it was to feel herself tucked between cool sheets , and to see Luke 's concerned face looking down at her . |
| 24 | She had enough to worry about and the greatest worry was how to make herself step inside this house . |
| 25 | Well , as I explained to the Almighty , at 30,000 feet I was much nearer to him than ever before and , shouting to make myself heard above those damned engines , perhaps there was an even money chance of being heard . |
| 26 | If you really want to get to grips with inland detecting , then I suggest you learn a little Portuguese and try to make yourself understood to any of the farmers who invariably can be seen selling oranges by the roadside . |