Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest . |
| 2 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 3 | I ran to the bedroom and heaved myself under the bed , fighting blindly with the magazines . |
| 4 | Her head swam ; she shut her eyes and pressed herself against the wall , fighting to steady herself for the return trip , struggling to contain an urge to vomit . |
| 5 | She wiped the filth out of her eyes and pulled herself into the wreckage of the cockpit . |
| 6 | The day was Thursday , the start of the academic week ; Flavia combed her hair , washed her eyes and marched herself to the tower . |
| 7 | She looked into his dark eyes and submerged herself in the bliss of being flattered . |
| 8 | It depends on the simple and indisputable fact that ideas and cultural artefacts travel , hopping from continent to continent and distributing themselves about the world in the wake of migrations and along trade routes . |
| 9 | Explaining why the authorities changed their mind and committed themselves to the transfer of land is a prime difficulty in the history of the emancipation . |
| 10 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 11 | ‘ And have n't you heard the Scriptures saying that a man should tie a millstone round his neck and throw himself in the sea sooner than abuse a little child ? ’ |
| 12 | Dean climbed off the roof and let himself into the car the way he had come . |
| 13 | I climbed on to the shed roof and gathered myself for the jump . |
| 14 | The priest completed his circuit and disappeared behind the altar screen , leaving in his wake a long trail of incense which gradually mounted into the roof and lost itself among the ostrich eggs and silver censers suspended there . |
| 15 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 16 | He flung the bedcovers off and stood up , shaking and staring wildly into the darkness , trying to identify the threat , knowing it had to be the Corsican and bracing himself for the shotgun blast that would cut him in half , disembowel him , blow his head off , send it bouncing across the floor of the bedroom . |
| 17 | He walked round the back of the car and busied himself with the boot . |
| 18 | Suddenly a wave of total panic swept across her like nausea and she had to resist the urge to dash from the car and hide herself among the trees . |
| 19 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 20 | Rex thrust Laura into the back of the car and threw himself into the driver 's seat . |
| 21 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 22 | Hector , distressed , gave a whimper and hid himself in the skirts of his chosen protectress . |
| 23 | It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time . |
| 24 | It was painful , beautiful and obscure , a not uncommon state of affairs when the creator also directs , gives a running commentary on the action and writes himself into the story at the end . |
| 25 | They jerk from side to side and rub themselves on the plants , but there is no redness or inflammation of the gills . |
| 26 | I sat up late last night and read the Geste as far as to where Beren and his gnomish allies defeat the patrol of orcs above the sources of the Narog and disguise themselves in the reaf [ Old English : ‘ garments , weapons taken from the slain ’ ] . |
| 27 | The younger enthusiasts of revolution , those who fervently accepted the ideals of The Green Book , seemed not to recognize the hard political work of the administrators nor to pay much attention to such discrepancies between ideology and practice as forced themselves into the consciousness of Libyans with wider experience of the ways of government . |
| 28 | Perhaps the man was excited because he saw the chance of making more money , Kirov rejected , in the hope that reminding himself of the mercenary side of the Jew 's character might make his job a little easier . |
| 29 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 30 | The so-called ‘ comprador bourgeoisie ’ , groups that orient themselves to the interests of foreigners in general and TNCs in particular , play a central role in these analyses of the triple alliance . |