Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a way of thinking and expressing oneself in language that is radically different from conversational speech . |
| 2 | It had absorbed the autonomist Right-On thinking and described itself not as a political party as such , but as ‘ The Revolutionary Socialist Organization ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He then walked into a bedroom and shot himself in the chest . |
| 7 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 8 | I ran to the bedroom and heaved myself under the bed , fighting blindly with the magazines . |
| 9 | She took one out and carried it up to her bedroom and shut herself in . |
| 10 | Anyway , at last I got absolutely blind drunk through depression , went upstairs to Freda 's bedroom and cried myself to sleep . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What 've I done ? ’ asked Archie , sidling sideways up the stairs in the hope of reaching the lavatory and locking himself in . |
| 14 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Then one night in an alleyway he witnesses a murder and finds himself lumbered with the dead man 's child . |
| 19 | Jim Bob , thousands of miles from home , still nurturing that Fagin-style goatee , sits backstage at Boston 's Paradise Club and allows himself a crooked smirk . |
| 20 | And then , as they mumbled and made half-hearted climbing-down gestures that he knew would probably stop as soon as he was out of sight , he opened up the door to the club and let himself in . |
| 21 | I 'd join the crimplene brigade , dress out of the Littlewoods club and resign myself to false teeth and a perm by the time I was 30 . |
| 22 | Well , that 's the way it goes , Piper , ’ and in the same breath , ‘ look in that canvas bag on the back seat and help yourself to what you want . ’ |
| 23 | Dominique uncoils herself from the driving seat and extracts herself elegantly . |
| 24 | Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind . |
| 25 | He has to splay his legs either side of the seat and heave himself upright with a jerk . |
| 26 | When he came out , he thought , he would sit in the driver 's seat and allow himself a daydream . |
| 27 | He 's put away the wild times , joined a twelve-step programme and willed himself sober . |
| 28 | It formed the Bund and committed itself to a critical modus vivendi with the state by declaring itself to be a ‘ church within socialism ’ . |
| 29 | If Gedge inadvertently adopts a rockist pose , he instantly recognises the irony and sends himself up . |
| 30 | It depends on the simple and indisputable fact that ideas and cultural artefacts travel , hopping from continent to continent and distributing themselves about the world in the wake of migrations and along trade routes . |