Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , it is an offence for a private company to pass itself off as being a public company and vice versa . |
| 2 | A SPURNED lover disguised himself to kidnap his ex-girlfriend then tried to stab her in the neck with a syringe , a court heard yesterday . |
| 3 | Once more , she tries to lull herself into dreamland via a salacious scenario starring herself and Riva . |
| 4 | That is setting a low pass mark themselves which they can easily achieve , whilst being demotivated when having to attempt to obtain a pass mark of 80% that a lecturer has set . |
| 5 | And I had a strong need to pit myself against her many suitors , and win . |
| 6 | Goalscorers are under the microscope more than anyone for England after the retirement of Gary Lineker and that reassurance of a definite period to prove himself would settle Ian . |
| 7 | The Emperor , who had set out to find a partner in a European congress found himself instead with an ally engaged in a European war . |
| 8 | Although in retrospect it might seem a vain hope to disguise ourselves as a motor yacht , we were not well known in the area and there were , after all , quite a few converted HDML 's about in those days , so we removed a few obvious identification marks from the ship including our uniforms , flew the red ensign and settled down to wait . |
| 9 | The grief-stricken widow refused to leave her dead husband 's side , and even crawled into his bed in a vain attempt to infect herself with his disease . |
| 10 | Thrusting the heavy wooden doors of the lift open as they reached her floor , she precipitated herself into the small lobby from which the corridor to her room led , recoiling in dismay as a tall figure unwound itself from one of the two easy chairs beside a small table graced with a vase of fresh flowers . |
| 11 | A freckle-faced brunette with a lush figure pressed herself very close to him , and placed one arm around his narrow waist . |
| 12 | It was a strange land to find myself in and one in which I observed many phenomena . |
| 13 | At that moment a slim figure flung itself out of the shadows to tumble Lefevre 's giant adversary from his feet . |
| 14 | The clear beneficiary was Tony Benn , who immediately launched a six-month campaign to have himself elected as deputy leader instead of the hated Denis Healey , who was , in the opinion of many , the architect of the sell-out of socialist economic policy during the Wilson-Callaghan government . |
| 15 | After running a substantial international fibres business , it came as something of a cultural shock to find himself sitting in ICI 's headquarters with only a secretary to command . |
| 16 | The methodological criterion on which our own study must be based is the following ; that the supremacy of a social group manifests itself in two ways , as ‘ domination ’ and as ‘ intellectual and moral leadership ’ . |
| 17 | Father , she first thought as the figure of a grey-haired man resolved itself . |
| 18 | A different noise made itself heard , and there among the circling gulls , high up , a fighter plane among the domestic craft , tore a peregrine falcon . |
| 19 | Some candidates may indicate a clear reluctance to commit themselves at this stage and this is helpful in making the final decision about who best to appoint . |
| 20 | Glam 's translation of this high art idea of camp into pop ( seen at its most powerful in Roxy Music 's ‘ In Every Dream Home A Heartache ’ ) , resulted both in a primitive post-modernism turning yourself and your body into an Art Object with all the irony and the distancing that that implied — and a mocking entry into a ‘ public ’ private fantasy , as it offered a cultural space for a mass white audience to play with hitherto repressed ideas about self , consumption , and masculinity . |
| 21 | At last a man with silvery smiling eyes in a brown face introduced himself as Luiz Santana , husband of Clem 's twin , Charity , and took Leonora into the dining-room when Clem was called away to great more arrivals . |
| 22 | ‘ What a funny way to express yourself . |
| 23 | He would have regarded it as a breach of etiquette for a French nobleman to present himself at court in uniform . |
| 24 | You know , I 'd like to ask a question , why is it so , why is it so frightening to spoil yourself ? , why is it such a , a wrong thing to spoil yourself , erm we 've been talking about make up we 've been talking about |
| 25 | A mindless litany repeated itself endlessly in her mind : ‘ Find Jeopardy , find Jeopardy . ’ |
| 26 | A semantic net lends itself to graphic display , and its meaning tends to be intuitively , if not formally , clear . |
| 27 | A TEENAGE arsonist trapped himself in a blazing school , a court heard yesterday . |
| 28 | He cried out and grabbed at a nearby wall to steady himself . |
| 29 | A 16-year-old girl works herself into a frenzy of grief for a friend killed by right-wing vigilantes . |
| 30 | It was done to prevent her giving way to a compulsive wish to injure herself by picking at her skin . |