Example sentences of "[pn reflx] and [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse was to come though for Horsham as following a fifty fifty challenge on the edge of the Abingdon area , striker Paul Walker injured himself and had to be stretchered off . |
| 2 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 3 | The historical legitimacy of the Great October Revolution , and the direct line of succession running from the victorious Bolsheviks to the Central Committee of today , remains fundamental to the way in which the Soviet establishment views itself and wishes to be viewed . |
| 4 | There was such suffering in the huge dark eyes , such a tremble about the pinched mouth , that all her instincts were to rush forward and abase herself and beg to be allowed to offer comfort . |
| 5 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 6 | Such a choice is made on the basis of how individuals see themselves and wish to be seen by others , and it is possible to conceptualise a characteristic or typical ‘ moral housing career ’ . |
| 7 | All over the world individuals are asserting themselves and refusing to be codified , or grouped or collectivized . |
| 8 | The soldiers that stand guard beside the entrances to the colonies and rush to defend any breach in the walls , are armed with jaws so huge that they can no longer gather food for themselves and have to be fed by the workers . |
| 9 | Sometimes these are such dedicated fighting machines , especially in their huge jaws ( in the case of ants , but " gunturrets " for chemical warfare in the case of termites ) , that they are incapable of feeding themselves and have to be fed by non-soldier workers . |
| 10 | erm unfortunately , it might sound extremely erm severe , but I can think of a number of people I 've met in my experience as a pastor who really and frankly could not help themselves and need to be treated almost like children again and made to receive help , and there are quite number of those sort of characters , unfortunately , on the streets of Oxford . |