Example sentences of "[vb pp] against [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the repression mechanism was removed with the acupuncture , the desire to kill had surfaced , but emerged turned against himself . |
| 2 | They favoured ZOPFAN as the kind of indigenous initiative they had hoped to stimulate under the umbrella notion of collective security , but in the absence of clear agreement in ASEAN over neutralisation they were loath to become committed to a proposal which could be turned against themselves . |
| 3 | That rite is turned against itself in the way that the Lord 's Prayer of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ is involved in an anti-Lord 's Prayer . |
| 4 | You can uncover many things in this way , so long as you can hold your nerve when the technique is put into reverse and used against yourself . |
| 5 | The subtle mind used against itself by the simple mind . |
| 6 | If you believe that discrimination has occurred against yourself , a colleague or a member of the public , you are responsible for reporting this at once to your manager or personnel section . |
| 7 | Luke showed yet another side of his personality : he laughed a lot , amusing them with a fund of stories , some of which , Merrill conceded with grudging admiration , were told against himself . |
| 8 | That was the only trouble with wei chi — it was not a game to be played against oneself . |
| 9 | As for the drive towards egoism by withdrawing from emotional awareness , in competitive conditions it appears reasonable to detach oneself from the joys as well as the troubles of others , on the calculation that love or trust is likely to be betrayed , and any generous action may be utilized against oneself . |
| 10 | Erm , I think the charge that has been laid against myself personally and my myself and my colleagues is the charge of vacillation and changing our mind and I and I am grateful to c my colleague David for reminding us that we have in this county had two years two years when the Labour party and the Conservative party have been hand in glove , absolutely determined that the way forward in relation to homes , elderly persons homes , not that 's not to close any and now we 've had a complete volte face when they 've changed their minds and they 've come along with us . |
| 11 | The presumption must be , after all , that the assembly knows what it is doing , not that it needs to be protected against itself . |
| 12 | In these cases , the self is , as it were , split against itself , subject to desires and impulses that seem ‘ out of character ’ . |
| 13 | Lear 's failure to judge his family properly , in that he sees things in a materialistic sense rather than in a true sense of love is amplified into the conclusion of a country split against itself . |
| 14 | ’ perhaps all that anger and hate directed against myself came out ’ he said . |
| 15 | Lord Brougham believed of Liverpool that : ‘ No minister ever passed his time with so little ill-will directed against himself , or had so much forbearance shown him upon all occasions . ’ |
| 16 | When she had aimed the bottle at Gazzer 's head , years of pent-up hurt and frustration had spilled over into violence : violence which she had previously directed against herself or had lived through only in her mind . |
| 17 | As she approached , Clara thought that she still looked cross , but she could see that whatever annoyance was there was not directed against herself . |
| 18 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 19 | She said that until England returned to the Old Faith , her people would never be happy but always divided against themselves , always backbiting and fighting with one another . |
| 20 | As an Austrian , Niki is divided against himself , and there are not just two Nikis but several dozen of them . |
| 21 | As a result , ‘ human society is generally divided against itself , one part , the more powerful , oppressing the other ’ . |
| 22 | This illustrates that the regime is profoundly divided against itself . ’ |
| 23 | Guatemala is divided against itself . |
| 24 | The British family is divided against itself |
| 25 | A house divided against itself can not stand … |
| 26 | Poland was divided against itself to begin with : the communists and the WIN anti-communists hated each other . |
| 27 | It was indeed a sad thing that in these days when the Church had enough enemies outside it should divide itself into hostile forces , because , he added aptly , forgetting the original subject of the quotation , a house divided against itself could not stand . |
| 28 | If a variable x(t) is plotted against itself delayed by an appropriate time lag T , then x(t) plotted against x(t+T) will give a point for a sink , and a single closed loop for a limit cycle . |
| 29 | In Have I Got News For You he showed himself to be quick , witty and well able to take jokes levelled against himself . |