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 . |