Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll tell you a Bible story meself In me own way . |
| 2 | It was that failure of implementation that seems to have prompted Leon Panetta , Mr Clinton 's budget chief , to unburden himself of melancholy thoughts on April 26th . |
| 3 | Sometimes he would have liked to unburden himself to somebody , but his officers and men had their own problems . |
| 4 | Also , it seemed to Bénezet , in some excitement , and in haste to unburden himself to someone about whatever was on his mind . |
| 5 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 6 | ‘ He used to go into the bathroom and lock himself in there for hours . |
| 7 | He had just time to form them up and move a little way forward himself from their hiding-place , to where he could see the ford and its approaches on either side , when the first fleeing riders came pounding down , splashing over and racing on . |
| 8 | But her little brother took to the instrument himself at the age of four , and soon learnt some of Nannerl 's pieces . |
| 9 | The Italian was in the process of being shown the red card himself for a crunching tackle on Walsh when the Pompey striker hit back angrily . |
| 10 | Dressed with extreme casualness himself in trainers and jeans , he ignored her outfit and she was left feeling uncomfortably in the wrong , almost as if he was doing her a favour by not commenting on her appearance . |
| 11 | There may be many reasons why the husband and wife do not make any formal agreement about separation , but this should not entitle a husband to return and force himself upon his wife weeks , months , or even years since he last saw her . |
| 12 | Nor would Nevton any better understand that on a deeper level he had tried to force Hope into himself or force himself in Hope and , despite initial success , discovered a fierce resistance . |
| 13 | In his well-known ‘ boutades ’ against politicians Pétain appeared to fear no one ; to Poincaré he once remarked acidly that ‘ nobody was better placed than the President himself to be aware that France was neither led nor governed . ’ |
| 14 | I 've got two of them , the other one 's er cut himself on a bottle this morning , he 's been in the vE T all day , he 's just had |
| 15 | Bazilio Olara Okello , who led the military coup which overthrew President Milton Obote in July 1985 [ see pp. 34023-24 ] before being forced into exile himself after Museveni 's coup in January 1986 [ see pp. 34536-38 ] , died in Sudan in January 1990 . |
| 16 | There is no need to change this law , and as far as I am aware no need for Mr. Byran to distress himself upon the umpires ' behalf . |
| 17 | On occasions , after a programme , he would slip into the empty studio , seat himself at the grand piano and play — mostly chords and nothing recognizable . |
| 18 | They watched him stroll down and seat himself under Carlos 's striped umbrella . |
| 19 | He had used the same reply himself on occasion . |
| 20 | My father is an educated man , and he passed a lot of what he already knew on to me , as well as doing a fair bit of study himself into areas he did n't know all that much about just so that he could teach me . |
| 21 | Ever since they had known one another , Otto had been kindness itself to Jean-Claude . |
| 22 | She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter . |
| 23 | On the other hand he was kindness itself to Andrew 's mother-in-law . |
| 24 | The nuns were kindness itself to Leonora . |
| 25 | When he 'd appeared with her breakfast Penry Vaughan had been reasonably friendly — and in the middle of the night he 'd been kindness itself after her nightmare . |
| 26 | It did n't seem likely : the first floor was in the roof itself with sloping outside walls and few places to hang pictures . |
| 27 | ‘ Allegory ’ would after all imply , to Tolkien ( see pp. 33–7 above ) , that The Lord of the Rings had only one meaning , which would have to remain constant all the way through ; he toyed contemptuously with the notion in the ‘ Foreword ’ as he sketched out a plan for his work as a real allegory with the Ring itself as president Truman 's atomic bomb . |
| 28 | These volcanic plugs , from North Berwick Law on the Forth estuary and the Bass Rock in the firth itself to Castle Rock in Edinburgh , provided early tribes with natural defensive sites . |
| 29 | This in turn opens up some fascinating questions about the role of consciousness itself in memory and perception . |
| 30 | It may not be ready to unburden itself before NT ships . |