Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press was too great and we found ourselves trapped by the crowd just in front a massive , black-timbered scaffold . |
| 2 | The Salvadorean people are giving a lesson to the whole world , and especially to the North Americans , because even after almost three years of finding ourselves beset by the guerrilla , a total misgovernment by the PDC and a catastrophic foreign intervention , we still have the moral integrity " to continue protecting against such a calamity " , financed and encouraged in part by the leftist sectors which have infiltrated the North American government … |
| 3 | Not so the antihero himself paralysed by the disease of hyperconsciousness in abstract Petersburg . |
| 4 | On the evening of 13 May on top of all his other preoccupations particularly the dangerously weak operational position of his Corps Gen Keightley suddenly found himself threatened by the possibility that within 48 hours Carinthia would be swamped by a further huge mass of some 600,000 surrendered personnel and refugees , without food . |
| 5 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 6 | Unfortunately Glam was himself bested by the GHOST and he , too , became a surly and violent ‘ walker after death ’ . |
| 7 | Alan Vessey found himself stuck by the touchline near the corner and , with his back to the Bere Forest goal and with limited options , he succeeded in paddle flicking the ball into the top corner of the net for one of the finest goals scored at Crystal Palace in recent years . |
| 8 | A man may show an interest in a woman , simply wanting to try out his style , and then find himself ensnared by the admiration and attention she beams at him . |
| 9 | In Nikko v MEPC ( cited at 13.8.1 ) the expert arranged for the point of law to be decided as a preliminary issue at a formal hearing at which he was addressed by counsel and himself assisted by a Queen 's Counsel . |
| 10 | You will hear how Farmer Dune was himself eaten by a group of pigs . |
| 11 | The Council of Ministers is appointed by the Prime Minister ( himself appointed by the President ) on the President 's request . |
| 12 | Solowka had a shock when he found himself berated by The Fall 's maverick frontman for having the audacity to share the same dressing room . |
| 13 | Without even realising that he 'd moved , he found himself standing by the door to her room . |
| 14 | Ever a proponent of parliamentary freedom of speech , in 1621 Alford protested against the ‘ eyes over him to observe ’ , but refused to have himself cleared by the House at the end of the session : ‘ God forbid that snares should be laid for mens words … |
| 15 | … that the legendary soldier , Pyrrhus , whose many battles were characterised by massive casualties , was himself killed by a tile hurled by a lone woman ? |
| 16 | That boy will do anything for me , even up to getting himself killed by a lion . |
| 17 | Again Wu Shih found himself pleased by the gesture . |
| 18 | The Royal Family , just like the Labour Party , finds itself spooked by the Zeitgeist . |
| 19 | The Labour vote itself rose by an average of between 8.3% in hung authorities to 9.7% in the handful of Democrat-controlled districts . |
| 20 | And there has been some encouragement from within industry , reflected , for example in Business in the Community ( BiC ) , founded in 1982 and sponsored by firms such as IBM and Marks and Spencer as well as supported by the DoE and the Manpower Services Commission ( later the Training Commission , itself absorbed by the Department of Employment in 1988 ) . |
| 21 | This has been sectioned only once , on the south-west , revealing an apparently single-phase wall on a drystone foundation , backed by a clay bank , itself overlain by the intervallum road . |
| 22 | These requirements are : ( 1 ) filing by the plaintiff of the appropriate documents with the court , which are : ( a ) either a request for the issue of a summons in the appropriate form ( N201 — 204 ) or , if allowed by the court ( Ord 3 , r 3(1A) , the summons itself prepared by the plaintiff together with a copy for each defendant or both ; and ( b ) particulars of claim together with a copy for each defendant . |
| 23 | The shears were sharpened on a stone which was turned by a wheel , which was itself turned by a handle . |
| 24 | In 1839 , the year of the Chartist petition to Parliament ( itself precipitated by the Act ) , Disraeli 's delinquent Lord Marney is pulling down as many of his cottages as possible so that the poor do not become a charge upon his parish . |
| 25 | With the formation of the coalition in May 1940 , the central organisation was itself weakened by the absorption of the two leading officers of the Research Department into the government : Arthur Greenwood took office in Churchill 's Cabinet and Grant McKenzie was recruited to assist Attlee in the latter 's government tasks . |
| 26 | In such a theory the state is seen as not merely helping to reproduce the capitalist system in contradictory ways , but as being itself shaped by the class struggle which results from those contradictions . |
| 27 | However , with the immediate advent of the war , BOAC never had a chance to establish commercial operations on any scale , and quickly found itself used by the Air Ministry ( its overseeing body , also in control of the Royal Air Force ) for military transport duties and ferry and communication services . |
| 28 | Atmospheric circulation ( and , in turn , precipitation and temperature ) is also greatly affected by the balance of thermal energy at the land surface , itself affected by the vegetation and terrain characteristics . |
| 29 | They found that moving traps were indeed consuming energy — cells used up 29 per cent of their ATP in the three seconds of closure , Venus fly-traps clamp down on their prey as a result of irreversible cell expansion , which is itself caused by the activation of wall loosening enzymes by a lowered p H in the cell wall . |
| 30 | What is normal behaviour is itself influenced by the pattern of early experiences which are common to that society . |