Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In taking this action , the duke showed himself to be several jumps ahead of the rest of the political community . |
| 2 | In taking this action , the duke showed himself to be several jumps ahead of the rest of the political community . |
| 3 | Silently she cursed herself for being such a damned fool . |
| 4 | He had lain wakeful beside Anna in the bed that had not been quite wide enough for twenty years and felt himself to be all at once boiling with misery and quite immobilized by it . |
| 5 | By way of total contrast , I can point to Birchfield sprinter Phil Brown , who never really felt himself to be any different from other school children and admitted to having ‘ no identity with other blacks ’ . |