Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over a century ago the island of Krakatoa in Indonesia blew itself out of existence . |
| 2 | Farmers in Scotland ask themselves four main questions : |
| 3 | Later , after four years in detention during the Mau Mau Emergency , he worked for an Indian workshop in Nairobi establishing himself as the pioneer manufacturer of bicycle carriers and foreguards . |
| 4 | The thought that this was something that would be more useful than anything else in Ireland formed itself treacherously and slimily in Fenella 's mind . |
| 5 | Bakers in England content themselves with Hot Cross Buns at Easter . |
| 6 | Recently the junior staff at Southmead Hospital in Bristol found themselves in bitter dispute with the hospital management over the terms and conditions of their employment . |
| 7 | Thus from the beginning the community in Donegal found themselves in opposition to state policy when they raised questions over the implications of uranium prospecting and mining . |
| 8 | The Romanians have been leaving Pontins Bream Sands centre in Somerset to turn themselves in at police stations across the west country . |
| 9 | The same might be said of the individuals in Britain considering themselves members of the ‘ middle class ’ : there is not an essential characteristic common to them all , which could be discovered by theoretical reflection . |
| 10 | One problem with that is that the feminist movement in Europe distances itself from the mass movement . |
| 11 | The first new group to appear in Lauchhammer called itself Environmental Forum . |
| 12 | Chramn used his position in Aquitaine to set himself up in opposition to his father , Chlothar I , who sent his half-brothers to destroy him . |
| 13 | From other Ixmaritians in the house , he learned that certain estates , even in Scarcement Chase itself , tended to adopt a more stringent Ixmaritian code for their vibrancers and priests . |
| 14 | In Paris he found that the lecturers did not as in Edinburgh confine themselves to one hour , but generally took an hour and a half or two hours ; but he found his time there very valuable . |
| 15 | It had been made clear in the last few days , he said , with low-paid workers in North Ayrshire having their wages cut to join a trust while senior managers at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh awarded themselves BMW cars . |
| 16 | Amid an increasingly confused situation the central government in Madrid and the Generalitat in Barcelona found themselves facing demands that they distribute to UGT and CNT members arms with which to resist ‘ fascism ’ . |
| 17 | Young women married to salesmen , for once , took an interest in where their husbands would be on the great day ; the older men , who ricocheted between various business interests , were lectured steadily , any time they put in an appearance at home , on the necessity of being in Tollemarche at this time ; and those males who were doomed to spend their lives in Tollemarche found themselves with intolerable lists of jobs to be done , from laying out backyard skating rinks to pinning up the hems on their female relatives ' costumes . |
| 18 | Gent 's hairstylists Ted Johnston of Continental Hairdressers in Belfast put himself in the cutting chair last week . |
| 19 | Even the large landowners living in Madrid prided themselves on their interest in their tenantry . |
| 20 | Even the wealthy New York Jewish financiers , the Guggenheims , Kuhns , Sachs , Seligmanns and Lehmanns , who had all that money could buy in the United States , which was very nearly everything , were not yet Americans in the way in which the Wertheimsteins in Vienna considered themselves Austrian , the Bleichroeders in Berlin Prussians , even the international Rothschilds in London and Paris , English and French . |
| 21 | He returned from a cold and rainy holiday in Switzerland to find himself faced with a mountain of correspondence and other business ( he was receiving in this period something like fifty letters a day , although most of them were handled by Valerie Fletcher ) . |