Example sentences of "was [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 2 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 3 | Erm and really the only way I thought that I could prevent myself from doing anything like that was to kill myself in a very violent way because I |
| 4 | The thing to do , Caroline told herself , was lose herself in the beauty and lore of Rome , and she might have done that — if the guide had only let her . |
| 5 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 6 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 7 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 8 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 9 | If so , it would be wrong that the council , because it has performed its statutory duty under the national law to enforce section 47 , was to find itself under a liability in damages as a result of performing that duty . |
| 10 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 11 | Mind you , she was starving herself to the point of endangering her life and had to be hospitalized , but er oh no , her hormon her hormon well her hormonal changes went into reverse , they absolutely did . |
| 12 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 13 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 14 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |
| 15 | A sob , swiftly repressed , rose in her throat ; she was condemning herself to a life as lonely as the seagull 's looked , but it , at least , could find a mate — she would never be able to do that . |
| 16 | To cling to a Polish identity was to exclude oneself from the German monopoly on higher education and from all but menial employment in industry ; given the rapid depopulation of the countryside it was also to insist on the right to become and remain part of a backward , ignorant , illiterate , inward-looking agrarian people , stuck in a rural backwater with no access to the outside world , with scant interest from that world and little hope of progress . |
| 17 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 18 | The lecherous Cohn once used his intercom to address an embarrassed starlet when he asked her if she was keeping herself in a state of sexual readiness for him . |
| 19 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 20 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 21 | He decided that the only way to avoid spending the rest of his life in the workhouse was to exhibit himself as a freak , and so he offered himself to Sam Torr , who ran a music-hall , the Gaiety Palace of Varieties . |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't you leave us alone now ? ’ he pleaded and Wexford felt impotently that once again the man was enclosing himself within the unimpregnable defence of grief . |
| 23 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 24 | Billie was fanning herself with the blanket to cool the sweat that was running down her body . |
| 25 | He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage . |
| 26 | This man was lodging himself like an irritating burr under her skin . |
| 27 | Essentially he was establishing himself as a figure of imperial stature , as his gold coinage reveals . |
| 28 | Those first six dancers had come to celebrate the newly awakened school of English classical dance that was establishing itself with the coming of peace . |
| 29 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |
| 30 | Sheila Hancock agrees that a great deal of the Williams intellectual showing off was to rid himself of the ‘ Carry On ’ persona . |