Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't want to make a big thing about holing myself up in the middle of nowhere , but people are asking me where I 've been and I ca n't really say I 've been touring the Far East or helping Bob ( we think he means Dylan — Ed ) with his album . |
| 2 | Unfortunately for his cause he succeeded in alienating many of the gentry who might otherwise have supported him and in tying himself up in the increasingly convoluted legal knots with which the later Tudors sought to define their rights . |
| 3 | She did not like flying and the mental energy involved in getting through the ordeal without flinging herself down in the aisle and drumming her heels was considerable . |
| 4 | But the day had insisted on playing itself out in the idyllic pastoral mode . |
| 5 | An 'A'-Level Art student has invented a new style of sculpture … by wrapping himself up in chicken wire . |