Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had no aspirations to be patrons of the arts and to regale themselves like proletarian Ludwig IIs with grand opera or private performances of the classics . |
| 2 | Back at the tent it is getting late , so I set up the Trangia and cook myself a meal . |
| 3 | He was listening to old Legion marching songs and giving himself the Nazi salute in the mirror . |
| 4 | It is a way of thinking and expressing oneself in language that is radically different from conversational speech . |
| 5 | It had absorbed the autonomist Right-On thinking and described itself not as a political party as such , but as ‘ The Revolutionary Socialist Organization ’ . |
| 6 | I heard no more of the debate and to the astonishment of my fellow delegates I stormed out of the auditorium and locked myself away in the Ladies to howl out my rage , alone . |
| 7 | Mystics are certain that for brief periods they have been enabled to experience such perception and know themselves to be part of a meaningful whole — one with the way things ultimately are . |
| 8 | One species of beetle in Brazil , when alarmed , immediately folds up its legs and flattens itself sideways , exposing its white underside and so takes on the appearance of a bird dropping . |
| 9 | Somersaulting before he reached the opposite side of the recreation room , Rostov flexed his legs and allowed himself to come gently to rest . |
| 10 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It might also be true that an arrangement in which supplementary grants were made in the light of positive evaluation would be an effective incentive for schools to maintain momentum and involve themselves fully in inservice activities . |
| 13 | He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest . |
| 14 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 15 | I ran to the bedroom and heaved myself under the bed , fighting blindly with the magazines . |
| 16 | She took one out and carried it up to her bedroom and shut herself in . |
| 17 | Anyway , at last I got absolutely blind drunk through depression , went upstairs to Freda 's bedroom and cried myself to sleep . |
| 18 | Only towards Pen had she let her guard slip and that was because he himself claimed her as his own , rushing into his mother 's bedroom and hurling himself into Wilson 's arms . |
| 19 | However , she was prepared to go along with the advisory teacher 's point of view in the sessions and reassured herself concerning her own fears by using whole-class lessons to reinforce what she felt pupils should have discovered . |
| 20 | Husbands and wives would spill juicy tidbits about their personal peccadilloes to a refined occultist during private sessions and find themselves being charmingly blackmailed . |
| 21 | when we do use our staff , we have the advantage that they are not restricted to a fixed location , but are mobile within districts and organise themselves with minimum supervision and are already capable of using high productivity equipment . |
| 22 | Eastwood played a Secret Service agent , Frank Horrigan , who froze when the first shot was fired that day in Texas and blamed himself for JFK 's death . |
| 23 | They find that the less stable isomers of the larger clusters , for example , heated by collisions with the inert gas , collapse and rearrange themselves into more stable fullerene shells . |
| 24 | What 've I done ? ’ asked Archie , sidling sideways up the stairs in the hope of reaching the lavatory and locking himself in . |
| 25 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 26 | Add up that loss and ask yourself whether a few more pounds spent on books to prosecute the purpose that brought you to college will , in later years , make any difference to your funds . |
| 27 | In South Africa , you might think just about everyone owns a Rottweiler — especially if you read the small ads in the papers , where owners lament their loss and sign themselves ‘ Devastated Rotty Lover ’ . |
| 28 | I go up the steps in two effortless bounds and let myself in . |
| 29 | Perhaps Vic had simply liked the look of the decorations in an antique shop or an auction and helped himself , arguing that , like eggs and water , they were universal property ? |
| 30 | Most foals are playful , but like other animals and even ourselves , as they mature and the years go by this characteristic diminishes . |