Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The two boys from the puritan villages of Wales set themselves up as hell-raisers to the world .
2 ( A few years later he was to complain about Eden wearing himself out by this frivolity . )
3 Just over a century ago the island of Krakatoa in Indonesia blew itself out of existence .
4 The 30-year-old champion from Croydon pulled himself up at nine with seemingly no more than a split second to spare and it was possible that American referee Rudy Battle , handling his 57th world title fight , gave him the benefit of the doubt .
5 The Romanians have been leaving Pontins Bream Sands centre in Somerset to turn themselves in at police stations across the west country .
6 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 .
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