Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy went through the door to find herself facing a tall , dark-haired woman whose attire breathed sophisticated elegance . |
| 2 | Dot was surprised to find herself wearing a large pink woollen nightgown with embroidered collar whose gathered sleeves were so long that her hands were lost . |
| 3 | Was appalled to find myself given a first task of writing a blurb for a feature on the dreadful Gaye Bykers On Acid . |
| 4 | I am slightly irritated to find myself thinking the same thought at the same point every evening , but also rather comforted . |
| 5 | But she gripped her hands together to help herself bear the wailing glory of the music which was a lament for all lost and gone , loved things , an expression of a grief she had thought too deep to express . |
| 6 | She would love to hear herself called a silly old woman . |
| 7 | On a wider note , authors need to organise themselves to redress the current imbalance of power . |
| 8 | You know ’ — she almost had to force herself to use the strange name — ‘ Buck Kettering 's daughter . ’ |
| 9 | You might want to arrive early for the celebrations to allow yourself to catch the annual Dublin Film Festival ( February 28 — March 8 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ You ought to force yourself to have a little something , ’ his wife told him . |
| 11 | Some winklebrain from the bank who managed to get himself sacked the following week ( and you really do have to be a winklebrain to get ejected from there ) stepped out one evening with Stu for a post- Arbeit beverage at Squires Wine Bar . |
| 12 | I failed to get myself introduced the other night . |
| 13 | My guess is though , that if , if the age difference had been something like erm , seven or eight years , by the time your mother was asking you to give up sweets for your very much younger brother , you would probably have matured sufficiently and perhaps identified enough with your mother to see yourself playing a more kind of maternal role , as , you know the grown up sister . |
| 14 | Then they had to brace themselves to pass the few people standing along the church wall . |
| 15 | He had to take a deep breath to stop himself tasting the delicate spot again . |
| 16 | and then wrote himself a note to remind himself to untie the blooming thing . |
| 17 | I 've discovered that that is the only way , with one or two exceptions that might occur , the only way to stop yourself wasting an awful lot of time . |
| 18 | If you possess these , you will not find it difficult to bring yourself to learn the simple arithmetic of grief , its common pattern and some of its variations , and you will find that as your knowledge increases your fears will decrease . |
| 19 | In this it is almost tragic : ‘ the unique vulnerability to tailed expectations is the fatal flaw in the masculine ego … the testing of masculinity knows no bounds … to prove oneself remains a lifelong necessity … . |