Example sentences of "made [pn reflx] scarce " in BNC.
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1 | The Magistrate , mortified , had made himself scarce . |
2 | Jules had tactfully made himself scarce on the pretext of work to be done at the new salon and now , two days after his visit to Maythorpe House , Harry was at last able to unburden himself . |
3 | Thankfully , Doctor Agrippa had made himself scarce , realising that d'Aubigny 's invitation did not extend to him . |
4 | An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun . |
5 | And I think behind him had been one of the older woodchucks and João the electrician , except they 'd made themselves scarce commodities . |