Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Get into the main street , we can try to lose ourselves amongst the other cabs . ’ |
| 2 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 3 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 4 | Increasingly man is being urged to launch himself into the barely-explored regions of his innermost self in ‘ crafts ’ which are often unstable . |
| 5 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 6 | He knows , though , that with first choice Bruce Grobbelaar approaching full fitness after his hamstring trouble and James eager to impose himself in the top flight , that Souness faces a difficult choice . |
| 7 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 8 | Raising up the wooden clouds to hide himself from the public gaze , he hurried trembling down the ladder and hid in the dark cart , under his quilt . |
| 9 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 10 | European civilization was the first to impose itself on the whole surface of the globe . |
| 11 | Her smile , as she gazed into the camera , was wry and mocking , as though it amused her to find herself in the traditional pose of a mother . |
| 12 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 13 | He found it hard to remember whether you had to position yourself on the left or the right side . |
| 14 | What she is saying is that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who can let life go by without trying to relate themselves to the big issues . |
| 15 | ‘ The common denominator in all these children is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life ’ . |
| 16 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 17 | The opening in time for August Bank Holiday Monday , possibly the busiest day of the year for Darlington shops , would give businesses the chance to establish themselves before the pre-Christmas onslaught in mid October . |
| 18 | These fairly well made , attractive rugs possess an undoubted primitive charm ; but as they have yet to establish themselves in the Western market , one can do little more than make an educated guess as to their current prices and investment potential . |
| 19 | The unions are still engaged in a struggle to establish themselves in the available ‘ space ’ , a struggle that has very largely been resolved in the case of the BR unions where it was in any case mainly confined to representation of the footplate grades . |
| 20 | It is very encouraging to know that so many institutions are keen to establish themselves in the important area of advanced IT training and that a significant contribution to costs came from industry . |
| 21 | However for pathogens to establish themselves in the human body they must be in the right place , in sufficient numbers and be sufficiently . |
| 22 | About ten years later , although the clock said differently , she appeared , eyes trying to adjust themselves from the strong sunlight to the shady cool of the bar . |
| 23 | I did n't go into the parents ' room but went on beyond it to find myself in the rear part of the carriage , at the very end of the train . |
| 24 | ‘ It must be strange , ’ she said slowly , ‘ to have been part of the Revolution and then to find yourself on the opposite side from people you fought beside . ’ |
| 25 | A few developed a liking for the racecourse and as it had been drummed into them to dress correctly for every occasion , somehow they managed to provide themselves with the obligatory long trailing gowns by lending each other clothes and accessories ; they appreciated the elegance of their suave escorts in tail coats and top hats . |
| 26 | Women use pieces of attire … to reinscribe themselves in the patriarchal system … . |
| 27 | To cling to a Polish identity was to exclude oneself from the German monopoly on higher education and from all but menial employment in industry ; given the rapid depopulation of the countryside it was also to insist on the right to become and remain part of a backward , ignorant , illiterate , inward-looking agrarian people , stuck in a rural backwater with no access to the outside world , with scant interest from that world and little hope of progress . |
| 28 | Bracing the lamp with his foot , he jerked the flex out and then had to steady himself as the unstable ground beneath him shifted . |
| 29 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 30 | The staging of this conference must be seen in the context of certain foreign-policy imperatives for Castro ( to accommodate himself with the Soviet Union and to re-establish the link between Cuba and the revolutionary process in Latin America ) . |