Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to deny that questions of income distribution are important , but they do not concern us here , and so we restrict ourselves to " baking the biggest cake " . |
| 2 | Erm from there we went into this purpose built flat above a grocers shop , it was meant for the manager of the grocers shop , but he had better sense and so the flat became available for letting to the Borough Council who at the insistence of the owners of the house we were in , erm , were anxious to get their property back and so we found ourselves in a brand new flat , the first tenants , although this was not very highly to be recommended , you approached your flat up er stone staircase , er from the outside so you exposed to the elements er you then walked across the roof , flat roof over the shops until you came to your flat door , erm , Islington at that time was just beginning the , to see the influx of immigrants from the colonies as they were in those days and er , they in turn created much heavier demand on what little vacant property there was , so that the district rapidly deteriorated and for many people who were not in the fortunate position that we were found it necessary or desirable to leave because they were sharing rooms or sharing houses with people whose ways of life were different from theirs and this is something I think that housing authorities learnt to appreciate over the years that the differences between people 's ways of life are one of the major causes of social distress . |
| 3 | He decided that the only way to avoid spending the rest of his life in the workhouse was to exhibit himself as a freak , and so he offered himself to Sam Torr , who ran a music-hall , the Gaiety Palace of Varieties . |
| 4 | Once he had obtained a post mortem report identifying the medical cause of death , that was taken to be the sole cause of death : the coroner reached the conclusion that there could be no other cause and so he precluded himself from considering lack of care as a cause . |
| 5 | William III is really William IV ( and we 're not talking William of Orange , who was variously known as Sweet William and Stinking Billy on the opposing sides of the religious divide in Ulster ) : the Daily Telegraph City Diary notes that Microsoft Corp chairman William Gates III is really William Gates IV but his dad wanted to seem more of a regular guy to his army pals and so he promoted himself to William Gates Jr . |
| 6 | And so she threw herself at him , leaping for his throat , a tall , strong , totally desperate girl with nothing whatsoever to lose , who would have been hard for any man to handle , even a man as powerful and totally unchivalrous as Christie Goldsborough , had he not been ready for her . |
| 7 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 8 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
| 9 | Soapy walked away from Broadway and soon he found himself on Sixth Avenue . |
| 10 | And more and more she met herself at this hour , too late to phone anyone , too weary to sleep . |
| 11 | My first experience with boys was not a great success but it was n't the last , and later I found myself in worse scrapes than on that first occasion . |
| 12 | I heard no more from the Head ( could someone have come worse than me ? ) and also I found myself in a new dorm filled with chaps who were in the top classes at school . |
| 13 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |
| 14 | And then I got myself in a knot cos there was a car coming up the road |
| 15 | He was shaking with nerves when he did the most critical audition of his career — for John Gielgud and The Lady 's Not For Burning — and yet he forced himself through it . |
| 16 | He said he had n't the strength to act on it , and yet he exhausted himself in making it roadworthy . |
| 17 | Both physically and emotionally I felt myself to be younger than ( inferior to ) my two younger sisters . |
| 18 | Nearby , the trees were distinguishable as oaks , ashes , chestnuts , yews , but gradually they resolved themselves into a universal greenness . |
| 19 | Previously these have not been felt by the mother but now they manifest themselves as mild pain or discomfort . |
| 20 | She had protested at their taking the Friar 's sack but now she allowed herself to be swept along by them without resistance . |
| 21 | He had only been half listening to the conversation but now he forced himself to be a more accommodating guest . |
| 22 | In the expansive 1960s he would have advanced rapidly and involuntarily , but now he saw himself as a failure and felt vaguely responsible for this . |
| 23 | At times he felt tender and protective towards her , but sometimes he surprised himself by the hatred he felt for her , because she was healthy and free and had no need of him . |
| 24 | There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing . |
| 25 | But then she reminded herself of the promise she had made to another whom she loved . |
| 26 | Gently but firmly he asserted himself in the organization . |