Example sentences of "[pn reflx] in [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's the chap who knocks on your door at unholy hours of the morning and invites himself in for a Big Breakfast . |
| 2 | There was no night-porter , but he had a key and he let himself in to the deserted lobby . |
| 3 | He used another of his plastic cards to let himself in through the back door . |
| 4 | Pinnacle , which currently offers a Sparc 2 CPU board , will leverage its experience in the Sun spares , repair and trade-in hardware business — combined with the SunSoft deal — to launch itself in to the compatible market proper , backed by a hefty advertisement campaign . |
| 5 | ‘ Even if I never said it clearly , it was always written that Barphone would one day or another throw itself in with a powerful group ’ he declared . |
| 6 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 7 | He looked frightening and she had a momentary sensation of having caged herself in with an angry lion . |
| 8 | As she let herself in at the front door her mother 's voice came booming out of the kitchen . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've heard so much about you , ’ she said to me , as though settling herself in for a long cosy chat . |
| 10 | That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation . |
| 11 | ‘ I just came home , let myself in by the back door and went straight to bed . ’ |
| 12 | Any manager who does handle the artist 's money is taking a foolish risk , as well as letting themselves in for an enormous amount of unnecessary work . |
| 13 | First , you 've frantically found your seat , strapped yourself in with a metallic click of the belt and are sitting bolt upright and trying to remember the air crash fatality statistics when — ooh , thank you , sweeties in a basket from a nice person — there 's a touch of human contact in a high-tech , high-octane toothpaste tube . |
| 14 | Boats from Bodrum quayside do the same thing , though it 's difficult to tell if you 're letting yourself in for a one way job , or a round trip including a meal at some distant restaurant ! |