Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 2 | He was said to mate with cows when strengthening himself for battle . |
| 3 | The main communications network should not carry or traffic engineering data indiscriminately ; this type of data should only be provided against requests that have themselves been authorized . |
| 4 | I like the way he 's gone about things and set himself up . |
| 5 | Such a move means wresting oneself and one 's immediate family away from the extended family , uprooting from relations and depriving oneself of being sustained by kin contacts . |
| 6 | At this point she burst into tears and blamed herself for the break-up of their relationship . |
| 7 | Then she burst into tears and threw herself into my arms . |
| 8 | In it Timmy would crawl for hours or pull himself up and stand precariously balancing , his napkin invariably falling about his knees . |
| 9 | Some authorities made a point of saying that they did not have a training programme because they depended on courses that presented themselves , e.g. : ‘ We always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised ’ . |
| 10 | If Labour can not stake its claim to be the future government , it may be by-passed by events and find itself back in the wilderness . |