Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This clown reinvents himself every 20 minutes , ’ says Don Imus , the city 's most popular radio host . |
| 2 | ‘ Are we to understand , ’ I cross-examined , ‘ that this is an establishment owned by someone who deems himself a Squire ; or , on the other hand , that this is a location sought out by Squires such as yourself when they desire to quaff ? ’ |
| 3 | Secondly , their eyes are on eternal truth , of which each party deems itself the sole defender . |
| 4 | As before , Thomson , who has also put out calls for biographical material on other subjects , including S G Brown , signs himself a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , helping establish credibility with editors unaware of the fact that he started collecting original papers in 1972 . |
| 5 | One thinks himself the master of others , and still remains the greater slave than they . |
| 6 | EVERY time that jaunty music to the children 's television series Captain Pugwash is broadcast , Johnny Pearson doubtless allows himself a smile . |
| 7 | In concert , Pollini 's almost super-human control is just as evident , yet he normally allows himself a degree of flexbility which one rarely encounters in the studio . |
| 8 | He allows himself a carefully selected smile , humorous , equal to equal , and goes on , the ease of his words belied by the hurry of his delivery and the force of his grip on her arm . |
| 9 | Jim Bob , thousands of miles from home , still nurturing that Fagin-style goatee , sits backstage at Boston 's Paradise Club and allows himself a crooked smirk . |
| 10 | Flaubert allows himself a private smile : ‘ It represented the Republic , or Progress , or Civilisation , in the figure of Jesus Christ , driving a locomotive through a virgin forest . ’ |
| 11 | Paul , in these verses , allows himself the chance to look back with his readers , and see the results of twenty years of Christian service . |
| 12 | Fernando Collor of Brazil , who went off the rails last month by ordering a doomed price freeze , still proclaims himself a free-marketeer . |
| 13 | THE stubborn candidature of Mr John Browne for Winchester would be comic were it not also deceitful — he proclaims himself the Conservative in all his literature — and dangerous to the Tory interest in a desperately close election . |
| 14 | Psychological writing proclaims itself an abstract , atemporal record of investigations . |
| 15 | The once vivacious teenager now rarely allows herself a smile , and her lively personality has become buried by the strain of living up to everyone 's expectations . |
| 16 | A cup of tea may be her usual tipple , but on such a special day , Nancy allows herself a drop of something a little bit stronger . |
| 17 | In his exchange with Nastasya he reveals himself an underground man who has wandered into a nineteenth-century naturalistic novel , a bohemian Hamlet . |
| 18 | It is ironic that by privileging sexual difference Scruton shows himself the victim of precisely the modern intensification of sexuality which in other ways he might regard as contributing to a legitimation of the perversions he repudiates . |
| 19 | nQue fancies itself a non-threatening bridge to migrate Windows users painlessly to Unix and snatch them , in the process , from the jaws of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 20 | NQue fancies itself a non-threatening bridge to migrate Windows users painlessly to Unix and snatch them , in the process , from the jaws of Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 21 | As always , Elizabeth shows herself a thoroughly English writer in her sensitiveness to the vagaries of the weather and to minor class distinctions ; and whatever Dr Johnson may say about the unimportance of the former or contemporary prigs about the latter , they contribute so much to the variety of life and conversation in England . |
| 22 | But , at last , John gets himself a horse . |
| 23 | He had tried out such individual projects himself the previous year when the resources first arrived , and the results were encouraging , so he was extending it : " having got more resources they were no longer all fighting over one or two books " . |
| 24 | He calls himself a ‘ stopper , ’ with his greatest ability being able to pounce on anything earthbound that should cross his territory , but he also has a fine pair of catching hands , and he took many full-blooded cuts and slashes through the expansive point area during the World Cup . |
| 25 | But the prospect must presumably appal anyone who calls himself a Conservative . |
| 26 | He calls himself a ‘ midwife ’ , and like a midwife , has only a temporary and external role to play in the process of birth . |
| 27 | A congressional committee has been inquiring into why Augusto Pinochet junior , who calls himself an international arms adviser , received cheques worth nearly $3m from the army , apparently for his share in a rifle factory , and whether the old general knew his son stood to benefit . |
| 28 | Everybody calls himself an undertaker . |
| 29 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 30 | He managed to get away to the other side of the ring but Grant , who calls himself The Terminator , slashed away with both hands , forcing the stoppage . |