Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [to-vb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 2 | NORTH Down have an extra special reason for wishing to haul themselves out of the Harp International League at the third attempt … next season heralds the Comber club 's centenary year . |
| 3 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 4 | The actor , in attempting to subject himself spontaneously to an occurrence and at the same time communicate that occurrence to an audience , is experiencing an unresolvable tension . |
| 5 | Gillroy and Davies hit the roof several times before managing to strap themselves down in the cabin , where all they could do was sit ashen-faced and pray . |
| 6 | ‘ Souness has inherited the biggest mess at Anfield that I can remember and in trying to get himself out of it he has at times become even more bogged down . |
| 7 | Pascal 's target here is Descartes and , in trying to think oneself back into the overwhelming urgency of their debate , it has to be remembered that their lives were overshadowed by the struggles of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 8 | For the mass of Muslims this is a non-issue — though I think British and European Muslim communities did themselves a colossal disservice in the beginning by failing to dissociate themselves properly from terrorist acts . |