Example sentences of "had [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Hall , safety and training officer at Redpath Offshore , said he found it difficult to explain why Mr Eaton had placed himself under the pipe . |
| 2 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 3 | There could be no doubt that by competing with the plaintiffs both as regards supplies and customers he had placed himself in a position in which there was a conflict of interest and duty . |
| 4 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 5 | She did n't love her husband , or even have any great affection for him , but she was mindful of the predicament in which he had placed himself by marrying so far beneath him , and she was going to make certain he never had cause to be ashamed of her . |
| 6 | It was assumed that parishes , very largely the agricultural villages of the southern and eastern cereal regions , who were using Speenhamland-like systems of poor relief , had placed themselves on a vicious spiral of soaring poor rates and were progressively increasing the very poverty they sought to relieve . |
| 7 | Lifting her bag from the shelf , she slung the strap over her shoulder and turned to go , only to find that the woman had placed herself between her and the door . |
| 8 | For instance , in an 1897 novel , The Typewriter Girl , the heroine comments on finding a job : ‘ I had justified myself before the impartial tribunal of political economy … |
| 9 | What had apparently happened was that , faced with persecution , the committed witches had formed themselves into small clandestine groups and became separated from each other . |
| 10 | His hair had formed itself into an interesting anthill kind of a shape though . |
| 11 | Our relationship had formed itself by an aggregation of layers . |
| 12 | He had distanced himself from her . |
| 13 | The party 's executive chairman , the former opposition figure Kim Young Sam , had distanced himself from the plan , although his signature , that of his DLP co-chairman Kim Jong Pil , and that of President Roh Tae Woo , had been on a secret memorandum leaked to the press in October . |
| 14 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 15 | This time the Orange Order , which had distanced itself from the Castlewellan and Cookstown incidents , was involved . |
| 16 | She too , like Mercer , must have suffered for years from his boorish behaviour in public , and she had distanced herself from it . |
| 17 | Soon after England began their reply there was a bad-light hold-up — probably unnecessary if they had all been wearing Bolle ‘ lifter ’ lenses — and upon resumption , Gooch and Stewart had to brace themselves against a torrid onslaught from Waqar , menace in every step of his run-up , and Akram , who bounded in and flung down something resembling Ivanisevic 's curving left-handed tennis serve , if only 30mph or so less swift . |
| 18 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 19 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 20 | But these activities occupied him , one may well think , because he could see he had painted himself into a corner : the purely literary reason for not finishing The Silmarillion is deducible not only from that work itself , but from almost the whole of Tolkien 's professional career . |
| 21 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 22 | My agent had exposed himself as one of the conspirators . |
| 23 | Liz Matson had been very impressed at how much Laura had taught herself from books ; using cardboard patterns she could manage basic grading . |
| 24 | The moans and songs lie low and gentle , then rise to a wild screaming force of sound as though all the ghosts of time had gathered themselves into one great , explosive cry . |
| 25 | Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard . |
| 26 | It had arranged itself around bright canvas bags and wicker baskets in the part-shade of a fishing-boat . |
| 27 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 28 | The members of this permanent staff had adjusted themselves to captivity , but prisoners passing through had only just been shot down and were still unsure and bewildered . |
| 29 | The tempo of a summer 's day had adjusted itself to the measured progress of the tournament through the placid dunes and sandhills . |
| 30 | The idea of a National Government , then , had implanted itself in the mind of the King , and in that of his closest adviser , as a possible solution to the economic crisis which many felt to be imminent . |