Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] and [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits . |
| 2 | Jobless David Griffiths , 20 , spent three fruitless months hunting for work and found himself under arrest when police spotted him putting up stickers in a St John 's Wood phone box . |
| 3 | That we are really praying for peace and identifying ourselves with peace struggle in Ireland . |
| 4 | He drove his Volvo to a beauty spot last month , drank most of a bottle of whisky and gassed himself with fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 5 | Emily shook back a stray curl of hair and held herself upright , she must stop feeling sorry for herself . |
| 6 | ‘ You can still make a bit of money and enjoy yourself without ripping people off . |
| 7 | Through the valuable option of the NatWest Home Improvement Loan Protector , you can have peace of mind and protect yourself and your dependents against unforeseen circumstances . |
| 8 | Now she would be able to make a pot of tea and wake herself up properly . |
| 9 | Lucy remonstrated , when Virginia had made them both a cup of tea and perched herself on the edge of Lucy 's bed . |
| 10 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 11 | It is a way of thinking and expressing oneself in language that is radically different from conversational speech . |
| 12 | ‘ Like the council , ’ said Constance , ‘ benefactors of humanity and kidding themselves about the perfectibility of man — silly bastards . ’ |
| 13 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that some people get on with their mothers-in-law better than their own mothers , but for the most part these relationships are regarded as likely to be tricky : people treat them as an ‘ occupational risk ’ of marriage and regard themselves as ‘ lucky ’ if they work out satisfactorily ( 1970 , pp. 414–15 ) . |
| 14 | The bishops , conceiving of themselves as a body supported by the Holy Spirit in their proclamation of morality and seeing themselves as following the equally and divinely guided line laid down by Pope John-Paul II , were assuming that the opposition to state legislation permitting divorce was of a similar standing and status to the Christian belief that Christian marriage was forever . |
| 15 | The bar chart that was the result of the survey we did you need to look at that piece of work and ask yourself a question , is this piece of work the best thing I have ever done ? |
| 16 | Line , like stance , is therefore a fluid thing ; it is a method of positioning and repositioning yourself so that you are always trying to reduce the opponent 's opportunities . |
| 17 | He fought to control a sense of panic and reminded himself that he was a priest , a man ordained , sworn to God . |
| 18 | Feel in urgent need of bracing and hear myself laughing loudly to show how relaxed I am . |
| 19 | ‘ This is endorsed by our experience in the market place where employers are using more temporary staff while assessing the strength of recovery and to give themselves greater flexibility , ’ she added . |
| 20 | Holliman decided that they had to take cover , so they scuttled into a patch of scrub and camouflaged themselves with nets . |
| 21 | To walk the length of a great basilica from porch to apse was to make the journey of salvation and find oneself in ‘ a place of perfection , the heavenly Jerusalem , its walls and buildings made in heaven , transferred to this spot ’ . |
| 22 | Similarly bodies such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England , often depicted as the last refuge of ex-Etonian Guards officers and assorted upper-class cranks , was able to speak with a new confidence and a new authority , attract a new breed of membership and turn itself into a highly professional custodian of the English countryside . |
| 23 | It has been an almost Darwinian process , of course , with those failing to shrug off the stereotype simply going out of business and removing themselves from the genetic pool . |
| 24 | Within moments I had decided to strip her to her expensive banker 's underclothing , lash her to a Quattrocento day-bed with fur-lined leather manacles , and whip her with unimaginable delicacy until she handed over a full power of attorney and yielded herself totally in a frenzy of self-abnegation . |
| 25 | Easing the damp khaki cotton of her culotte suit away from her perspiring skin , she drained the glass of juice and dragged herself away from the mesmerising sight of the turquoise water and army of waving coconut palms . |
| 26 | Victims use lots of apology and paint themselves as mundane and inadequate in what they say . |
| 27 | The old man replies kindly , but says there is no mention of salvation in the Good Book ‘ for any but the sinful sons of Adam ’ — at which the lady gives a cry of despair and hurls herself into the sea . |
| 28 | She sat down gingerly on the edge of a nearby armchair , took a mouthful of vodka and pulled herself together . |
| 29 | This is a difficult question to give a well-defined meaning to when the very structures of space and time themselves are subject to the uncertainty principle . |
| 30 | Yesterday morning Harriet had got out of bed and made herself ready to go hunting behind those upstairs windows . |