Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] through " in BNC.
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| 1 | In social situations , most of us want to enjoy ourselves through pleasant company and good food and wine . |
| 2 | It is this structuralist mode , through which the particularities of the object world at a given time may help generate the objectifications by which a set of social relationships comes to know itself through an array of everyday taxonomies which makes Bourdieu 's work such an advance on previous analyses of consumption . |
| 3 | Of course if one " finds " oneself correctly , but certain friends do not , and they try to find themselves through one , or even through one 's findings , all will not be well ! |
| 4 | He had enough for his day-to-day needs , of course , but he would be hard-pressed to see himself through another month if he was to live in the style befitting a gentleman . |
| 5 | It is this idea of the universal Church which is a seed of the conciliar movement ( when the Church sought to rule itself through councils ) . |
| 6 | Its one rolling , swollen eye was fixed on Cardiff even as the thing thrashed with blackened , elongated and monstrously deadly arms at the brickwork , trying to heave itself through the aperture and into the basement . |
| 7 | Dulwich inevitably suffers from its geographical situation four miles south of central London , and currently lacks any surplus funds to promote itself through increased advertising . |
| 8 | doctrine , and a view was subsequently promoted that a child could not do drama until he first learnt to express himself through movement . |
| 9 | One , keen to express himself through hard work , sees that his only choice is to ‘ better myself and pick my life up . |
| 10 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 11 | The characters and their conjugal disjunction have indeed been generated out of a play of pronouns , out of ‘ words on a page ’ , for it is due to the lack they experience in each other that they are not able to constitute themselves through each other as subjects . |
| 12 | Blocked mobility into consultant grades forced the GPs to organise themselves through the Royal College of General Practitioners . |
| 13 | Choreographers wish to express themselves through dance because a story , theme or music has inspired them . |
| 14 | to give children the opportunity to express themselves through a variety of approaches including descriptive , imaginative and creative poetry and prose . |
| 15 | One of these was that of the ‘ lads ’ who were much like Willis ' ‘ lads ’ , in the sense that they were concerned to express themselves through symbols of adult masculinity and debunked most forms of authority and ‘ respectable ’ living . |
| 16 | During a visit to the hairdresser 's I realized that we women are prepared to put ourselves through the most extraordinary practices in order to improve our image . |
| 17 | So when Hollywood makes a film about a brutal gang rape in the back of a bar , written and directed by men , the reaction tends to be why on earth would we want to put ourselves through that in the name of entertainment ? |
| 18 | He is n't going to put himself through all that again . ’ |
| 19 | There is also the problem of repairs and maintenance of the property , which a woman may well not be able to afford , or be able to do herself through lack of experience or time . |
| 20 | The only reason she had decided to put herself through all this with him was because she had a point to prove — a professional point . |
| 21 | She would need to be a masochist to put herself through this kind of torment , seeing him every day , working with him , knowing it could never lead anywhere . |
| 22 | This need not be of great concern to management , however , given the capacity of most companies to finance themselves through retained earnings . |
| 23 | I suppose nobody is willing to put themselves through reading all the SHITE . |
| 24 | Without communicating criticism , David was able to convey to Julia something which helped her to see herself through the eyes of others . |
| 25 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 26 | Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals . |
| 27 | Laura was not tough , but possessed a strong character and would see this sort of action not as a sacrifice , but as an act of fulfilment , she was able to project herself through her husband . |
| 28 | He was a lot smaller then and he managed to squeeze himself through a cavity and found himself in a network of very small , narrow tunnels — far too small for most adults to enter . |
| 29 | He was followed by a head and a paw as the now enraged Rosie attempted to squeeze herself through the same opening . |
| 30 | Panting , heart pounding , he stood back from the door and waited , safe in the knowledge that the dog was too big to squeeze herself through the gap allowed by the safety-chain . |