Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | is abolished the taper will be changed so that , instead of people over social security levels losing 15p in the £1 , they will lose 20p , thereby penalising people who are struggling to lift themselves out of poverty , provide pensions for themselves and do what the Conservative party always preaches — stand on their own two feet . |
| 2 | The , you may get by very nicely on very moderate physical ability in ordinary every day life because you can kind of order what you 're going to let yourself in for . |
| 3 | As commercial disputants look to other means of settling disputes — tribunal , arbitration , alternative dispute resolution — it is hard enough that law firms are having to set themselves up in competition with non-lawyers to provide these services . |
| 4 | The parachute has to be packed into a realistic pack — no self-respecting dropnik could be expected to cast itself off with a bundle of nylon in its arms . |
| 5 | And MPs will be asked to vote themselves out of any increase on their £30,854-a-year salaries . |
| 6 | She was anxious that Swire Sugden should not be allowed to spread himself around like a malignant tumour . |
| 7 | Shit , I 'm trying to talk myself out of it , it 's just when I see her … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Twelve women were driven to injure themselves out of fear for the lives of their husbands or loved ones . |
| 9 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 10 | Er , but I mean , everything you do is , is designed to set yourself up in the best possible position for when the staff come in and , and throughout the shift leaving it as best you can for the branch manager the next day . |
| 11 | We do n't want to upset them and it 's bound to smooth itself out in time . " |
| 12 | Every penny I 've ever had during our nine-year marriage he 's taken to get himself out of trouble , including the £18,000 divorce settlement from my ex-husband . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's admitted passing himself off as the Prince 's chef , and when his dastardly plan to assassinate His Royal Highness by poison did n't work , he kidnapped him . |
| 14 | ‘ A mortgagee is allowed to reimburse himself out of the mortgaged property for all costs , charges and expenses reasonably and properly incurred in enforcing or preserving his security . |
| 15 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 16 | Moon died in 1978 , after an overdose of the prescribed drug he was taking to ease himself out of alcoholism ; Townshend had his own dark periods of excess ; even Entwistle , the quiet , static one , felt inclined to release a solo album entitled Smash Your Head Against The Wall . |
| 17 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 18 | Nuadu could see that her fingers were gone now , and that she was trying to pull herself back into the heartwood , which would have been her dwelling and the place from which she drew sustenance and vitality , but the Robemaker made another of his sudden curt gestures and the slaves fell to their work again , sweat streaming from their half-clad bodies and Nuadu saw the heartwood splinter and fall apart . |
| 19 | She felt sticky and heavy , as if she was trying to pull herself out of the chlorinated pool with the water dragging at her bulk , breaking the surface tension with an effort . |
| 20 | Something was trying to pull itself out of the corridor wall . |
| 21 | Sceptical officers thought he was trying to pass himself off as motor racing 's world champ . |