Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A SPURNED lover disguised himself to kidnap his ex-girlfriend then tried to stab her in the neck with a syringe , a court heard yesterday . |
| 32 | It is the responsibility of each employee to acquaint themselves with the full details of these and any local arrangements . |
| 33 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 34 | Small wonder that industry feels itself to suffer unfairly in the competition for talent . |
| 35 | ad hoc as external courses in specific subjects present themselves . |
| 36 | A freckle-faced brunette with a lush figure pressed herself very close to him , and placed one arm around his narrow waist . |
| 37 | Aberdeen 's bid to stage a re-run of their European Cup-Winners ' Cup Final win against Real Madrid has failed because the Spanish club priced themselves out the market . |
| 38 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 39 | A rebel army of political dissidents calling itself the National Patriotic Forces of Liberia ( NPFL ) , believed by the United States State Department to be supported by Libya , and led by Charles Taylor , had staged a rebellion in December 1989 [ p. 37174 ] ; by April , however , the uprising appeared to be at least partly a reaction by local people to the behaviour of the armed forces , accused of brutality in their actions to suppress the rebellion earlier in the year . |
| 40 | The voting continued throughout Monday night , eight candidates putting themselves forward for the honour . |
| 41 | The Tory nightmare ought to be that Labour revamps itself yet again and becomes truly a centrist democrat party , committed to sound money , tight budgets , and moderate taxation . |
| 42 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 43 | Labour candidates found themselves pledged to unilateral disarmament , withdrawal from the European Community and an economic policy that would have brought the country to bankruptcy within weeks . |
| 44 | The site from which the mountains were drawn would be chosen so the different peaks arranged themselves to their best advantage whilst retaining their correct topographical position . |
| 45 | At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru . |
| 46 | He found another porter to address himself to . |
| 47 | ‘ There 's an end to an auld sang , ’ said Lord Chancellor Seafield when the Scottish Parliament dissolved itself in 1707 . |
| 48 | But by then the military phase of the Emergency was nearly over , and apart from the odd border patrol , the Masai were given no further opportunity to distinguish themselves in battle . |
| 49 | It was a moment when a stray thread of sledge-hammer sanity isolated itself and hit me , and I , in that scarce moment , knew that I had to protect you — from me ! ’ |
| 50 | Many of the people are obliged to wear wet handkerchiefs to protect themselves from the strong fumes of sulphur . ’ |
| 51 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 52 | When the result — 373 votes for , 12 against — flashed up on the black and green computer screens at either end of the chamber , the assembled deputies gave themselves a short , self-congratulatory round of applause . |
| 53 | My companion took this opportunity to hide himself in his papers . |
| 54 | So make sure you do n't miss this opportunity to protect yourself and your family with Accident Cashguard . |
| 55 | So please take this opportunity to protect yourself and , if appropriate , your whole family too , with the Midland Personal Accident Plan . |
| 56 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 57 | As you will see from this supplement , AEA offers a wide range of consultancy , technical services and specialist products to the process industries and , as Business Development Director for the Process Industries , it is my pleasure to use this opportunity to introduce myself and AEA . |
| 58 | May I take this opportunity to introduce myself . |
| 59 | IBM is usually pretty forthcoming about the markets that it foresees for its products , but in this case limits itself to saying that it will appeal to professionals who would prefer ‘ easy-to-remember voice commands ’ to complicated keystrokes or mouse movements . |
| 60 | The white-bearded campaigner prided himself on blunt , outspoken views . |