Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 2 | I suggest that where an average portion provides less than 20 calories you let yourself off the chore of weighing while following the F-Plan slimming method . |
| 3 | In the process of reading the images they construct themselves as a particular kind of audience . |
| 4 | as if conforming to some prearranged ceremony they grouped themselves into a semicircle with Alex Mair a little to the front , like a formal welcoming party but one bracing itself for trouble rather than expecting pleasure from the approaching guest . |
| 5 | With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring . |
| 6 | BP has considerable experience of rationalisation ; along with much of the rest of UK manufacturing industry it reshaped itself during the early and mid-1980s . |
| 7 | Then , almost alone , he awaited his fate , and as the British troops stormed through the gateway of his stronghold he shot himself with a pistol sent to him in happier days by Queen Victoria . |
| 8 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 9 | More than any other wartime figure he addressed himself to the conscience of middle-class radicalism , arguing that the only worthwhile victory possible was one based on the common ownership of the means of production and a moral revolution in which selfishness and the profit motive would give way to an ethic of service to the community . |
| 10 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 11 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 12 | An adopted daughter of Washington she sees herself as a bit of a hard North-East woman . |
| 13 | There was a tight , hard knot in her stomach that seemed to preclude eating , but in a gesture of defiance she helped herself to a platter of seafood . |
| 14 | ( 5 ) In breach of their fiduciary duties they put themselves in a position where there was a conflict between their duty to the plaintiff to inform him and their personal interest in ensuring that they obtained commission on both Vertigo and Caliban. ( 6 ) As a consequence ( a ) the plaintiff was entitled to damages for breach of contract and fiduciary duties ; ( b ) the defendants , being in breach of their fiduciary duties as agents , were not entitled to their commission . |
| 15 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |
| 16 | Writing out a receipt he bethought himself of the verse from the Book of Proverbs : ‘ Eishes chayil … . |
| 17 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 18 | From a cupboard , she took a large , brown , straw hat and a dark grey coat ; and after first pinning the hat on to her hair she shrugged herself into the coat . |
| 19 | At that moment I glimpsed myself in a shop window and was pleased with what I saw . |
| 20 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 21 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |
| 22 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |
| 23 | In imagination she saw herself as a devotee of Bacchus , in the golden world of the Greeks , as these extracts from her poem ‘ The Lost Bacchante ’ reveal . |
| 24 | But there was nothing , and with a quick twist of her body she hoisted herself over the wooden rail to slither down on to the deserted deck . |
| 25 | When at last we emerged into the open we found ourselves on a plain , perhaps a mile wide , lying between the hills and the river . |
| 26 | At a press conference he committed himself to a big recruitment drive for Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , and , if necessary , to putting more resources into local authorities in order to make the bill work . |
| 27 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 28 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 29 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 30 | When we talked about flukes and snails we accustomed ourselves to the idea that a parasite 's genes could have phenotypic effects on the host 's body , in exactly the same way as any animal 's genes have phenotypic effects on its ‘ own ’ body . |