Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also found ourselves together in the middle of the LA riots — two days of mayhem without a cop in sight — so I guess that brought us closer together ! |
| 2 | We had also determined to acquit ourselves well in the removal of fish from their natural habitat , and Blair and I set out one evening intent upon playing havoc with Ythan sea-trout . |
| 3 | ‘ He got a gun and shot himself right in the head . ’ |
| 4 | In the same year , the tsar involved himself personally in the foundation of the reformist journal Military Miscellany . |
| 5 | My master sat rocking himself gently in the chair . |
| 6 | In July 1890 , two years after writing this , Van Gogh had shot himself inefficiently in the groin , and had died slowly . |
| 7 | Frank raised himself laboriously in the bed , before subsiding weakly into the pillows . |
| 8 | Stationing himself approximately in the centre of his front , he raised his sword high and ordered the charge . |
| 9 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |
| 10 | König had from student days interested himself deeply in the life and works of Rudolf Steiner ( 1861–1925 ) , the Austrian philosopher and founder of anthroposophy . |
| 11 | Walter Carew slowly raised himself upright in the chair and stared stonily at him for a full ten seconds without uttering a word . |
| 12 | Newly appointed as Duke of Swabia , Frederick Barbarossa had an opportunity to mix with other nobles , and acquitted himself well in the crusade . |
| 13 | It was no doubt in part at least to consolidate himself dynastically in the face of the threat posed by Oswine that Oswiu married Eanflaed , daughter of Eadwine and Aethelburh , and therefore of part-Deiran , part-Kentish extraction , c. 644 ( her son , Ecgfrith , was in his fortieth year in 685 ) ( HE 111 , 15 ) . |
| 14 | The porter planted himself firmly in the aperture , presumably in case they changed their minds . |
| 15 | He wanted a reunited Conservative Party , with himself firmly in the saddle , sharing power on a somewhat unequal basis with a Labour Party purged of its extremists by the occasional responsibilities of office . |
| 16 | Sitting where he was , a bullet fired into the back of his neck might pass through and embed itself somewhere in the brickwork above the stove . |
| 17 | Shiona felt her heart perform a triple somersault and lodge itself somewhere in the region of her throat . |
| 18 | Half a breath dimly lit itself exactly in the middle of his head . |
| 19 | As the oxygen is bound the iron shrinks in size and buries itself further in the porphyrin . |
| 20 | Again , as in The Graduate , it was a hit song on the soundtrack , in this case , Fred Neil 's ‘ Everybody 's Talkin ’ , that gave the film a contemporary resonance , lodging itself more in the ear than in the eye or mind . |
| 21 | Its articulation is easier and hence its flexibility is greater than that of the trumpet , but its proper place is the brass or wind band and it has not succeeded in establishing itself permanently in the orchestra . |
| 22 | But in general the architecture of the area divides itself clearly in the period 1200–1600 into two main types . |
| 23 | A further contrast , as I have indicated , may be drawn between the political systems of ‘ developed ’ and ‘ underdeveloped ’ societies , often in terms of the instability of the latter as compared with the former ( Huntington , 1968 ) ; an instability which manifests itself partly in the frequency of military coups and the prevalence of military regimes in the non-industrial countries . |
| 24 | The structure of intelligence reveals itself spontaneously in the way people behave intellectually ; it is not imposed by the assumptions of testers , as the national press would have it . |
| 25 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 26 | Sir : Your otherwise sound leading article ( 'Private gifts for public arts ' , 11 October ) shot itself hypocritically in the foot in its last paragraph by expressing irritation with corporate executives who ‘ parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ’ money' . |
| 27 | For example , will an increase in aggregate demand manifest itself principally in the form of an increase in output , as the naive model suggests , or in the form of an increase in prices , as the equally naive quantity theory of money suggests ? |
| 28 | While he went in search of the water , she locked herself furiously in the bathroom to don a baggy navy and white striped T-shirt nightdress , and by the time he returned she was safely hidden underneath the printed white bedspread . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ Merrill smiled , settling herself luxuriously in the car . |
| 30 | After that , she never washed in any water but cold water except when she could borrow a steaming kettle from her aunt in order to wash herself piecemeal in the kitchen or the cramped wash-basin in the bathroom . |