Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [coord] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While learning at an RYA centre guarantees success , there will always be people who will learn on a friend 's board or prefer to buy a board and teach themselves . |
| 2 | This had not been done — Harry and I put the boards up , and asked posterers to pick a board and help themselves . |
| 3 | It said : ‘ On my way to the courtyard this morning , I went into your gallery as a sanctuary and found myself surrounded by startling , horrific and disturbing images which yet had a positive and uplifting effect . |
| 4 | An old man dressed in traditional clothes appears and , facing the rock , says a prayer and prostrates himself . |
| 5 | He found a foothold and pulled himself up . |
| 6 | He may begin as a standard-bearer and allow himself to be persuaded to go forward as a contender . ’ |
| 7 | Lio ! rt gasped at the sudden turn of speed with which the wizard had dodged his killing stroke and , with that desperation only available to the really terrified , Rincewind uncoiled like a snake and launched himself across the space between them . |
| 8 | He came to A Division and got himself into a lot of trouble through damn stupidity . |
| 9 | Er I mean , all I want Win , is something to do for four years than sit at home being a housewife and hang yourself as well ! |
| 10 | He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest . |
| 11 | Hector , distressed , gave a whimper and hid himself in the skirts of his chosen protectress . |
| 12 | On another occasion , failing to observe the line of the road , I shot straight into a farmyard and buried myself in a haystack . |
| 13 | Then one night in an alleyway he witnesses a murder and finds himself lumbered with the dead man 's child . |
| 14 | He said the men made Mrs Kennedy phone Ulster Television and ask for cameras but then agreed to speak to a priest and gave themselves up . |
| 15 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |
| 16 | ‘ Come on then you lot , ’ shouted Yanto , ‘ Let's have a wander and get ourselves an appetite . ’ |
| 17 | There they will hire a minibus and drive themselves the 1,000 kilometres overland to Bophuthatswana . |
| 18 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 19 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 20 | She had learned as a girl and given herself a week 's holiday for a thirtieth birthday present . |
| 21 | It is more difficult to prevent the river going round in a loop and joining itself . |
| 22 | We flying a glider or throw themselves of the bridge , if it does n't work they die , somebody learns from that , you know , I know it , it really was a fucking |
| 23 | The little shop had been arranged as what I have seen described as a mini-hypermarket , so I found a basket and busied myself with collecting what supplies I thought I might need for the next couple of days . |
| 24 | Without causing a scene and making herself look even more ridiculous , she decided she had no choice but to do as she was told . |
| 25 | Despite offers of another bottle , we declared a truce and comforted ourselves by sharing a strawberry and raspberry gratinée , the fresh fruit beached in a hot lake of custard and centred with a melting raspberry sorbet : definitely my desert island dish . |
| 26 | Body language can suggest you have like jumping out a window or hanging themselves or whatever . |
| 27 | Starved of emotional nourishment from that quarter , the daughter is brittle and neurotic and , when her boyfriend leaves her for another woman , she takes umbrage , haunts the new love-nest night and day , lets down tyres , makes abusive phone calls and eventually throws a stone through a window and gets herself arrested . |
| 28 | He was a dour middle-aged man , who feared he was a failure and compensated himself with an excessively professorial beard and a punctiliously formal manner . |
| 29 | ‘ ( 1 ) A party to a contract ‘ deals as consumer ’ in relation to another party if — ; ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) … the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |
| 30 | A party to a contract " deals as a consumer " in relation to another party if — ( a ) he neither makes the contract in the course of a business nor holds himself out as doing so ; and ( b ) the other party does make the contract in the course of a business ; and ( c ) in the case of a contract governed by the law of sale of goods or hire-purchase , or by section 7 of this Act [ ie other contracts of supply ] the goods passing under or in pursuance of the contract are of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption . |