Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why they are determined to triumph on Tuesday and lift themselves into a respectable position in Group Three from which the favourites to qualify are Spain , Denmark and the Republic of Ireland . |
| 2 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 3 | ‘ Come along in Katie and sit yourself by the fire . |
| 4 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 5 | She took a taxi to the family home in Surry Hills and let herself into the house which was unoccupied . |
| 6 | I went to Miami and booked myself aboard a late-night Pan American jumbo jet to Panama City , arriving shortly before dawn in the pullulating and insufferably hot shanty-capital sprawling beside that most famous of all entrances to the world 's greatest of seas . |
| 7 | While the Greed Is Good League threatens to fall apart — and who cares ? — while England 's team is outplayed in Spain , cricket 's selectors drop David Gower and hurl themselves into a whirlpool of crazy contradictions . |
| 8 | The European Commission wants to change the 1958 Euratom Treaty to end trade barriers within the EEC and to establish itself as a watchdog on deals between member countries and outsiders . |
| 9 | Hussa and the boy 's sister soon arrived from Al Ain and installed themselves in the adjoining bedrooms . |
| 10 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 11 | You must also buy a copy of Debrett and familiarize yourself with the names of those people in society we hope will become our clients . |
| 12 | ‘ Derrick and I went to Blackpool and booked ourselves into a hotel , ’ she recalls . |
| 13 | Each story contains a different claim by Jesus that set himself against the religious leaders and pointed to the new way of Christianity : |
| 14 | Charles greeted Joanne and helped himself to a large Scotch . |
| 15 | On route from Kilham to Lowthorpe , the heavy stone base of the cross fell off at Ruston Parva and embedded itself in the verge side there , from where it was rescued in recent years and now stands on Ruston Parva village green . |
| 16 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 17 | When Knox became a fellow of King 's in 1909 he inherited the then deceased Headlam 's work on Herodas and applied himself to the fragmentary texts of the Herodas papyri in the British Museum . |
| 18 | Her bullet tore through Ma Katz and spent itself against the wall . |
| 19 | Out in the car park , Lucy handed over the car keys to Virginia and wedged herself into the passenger-seat , glancing rather apprehensively at Virginia as they accelerated slightly too fast out of the car park . |
| 20 | Or you can go flying with Dumbo and lose yourself in the wonderland of ‘ Alice 's Curious Labyrinth . ’ . |
| 21 | He moved to Glasgow and established himself as a provision merchant , but within a few years decided that there were better prospects in the iron trade . |
| 22 | Lorton passed the bag to Dougal and balanced himself on the sill , with his legs outside the house . |
| 23 | Roy Bradford who had been a member of the Executive stood as an Ulster Unionist in East Belfast but without the support of UUUC , and Tom Conaty who was well known as Chairmen of the Central Citizens Defence Committee ( CCDC ) stood as an Independent in West Belfast and identified himself as a Catholic representative . |
| 24 | There he made a clean sweep with the past by changing his surname from Kaye to Kasmin and launching himself on a career as a poet . |