Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well now , Barney , ye may think yerself an old man but I do n't think of meself as such ! ’ he exclaimed testily . |
| 2 | A team of divers that included myself once found ourselves in such a situation . |
| 3 | ‘ I fear we have to blame ourselves in such matters . |
| 4 | We wish to distance ourselves from such inferences , even though naturally we would expect our findings to generate constructive discussion about the effective use of pupils ' and teachers ' time in primary schools . |
| 5 | The social and political implications of Gandhi 's quest for Truth will also be dealt with in later chapters and for the moment we shall confine ourselves to such questions as how he goes about acquiring glimpses of absolute Truth and how he knows that it is absolute Truth he has actually caught a glimpse of . |
| 6 | We are n't reasonable enough to accommodate ourselves to such a shift in moral attitudes . |
| 7 | Meaning is not simply in an utterance , irrespective of the participants : to understand it we must take into account the inter-subjectivity of the participants , addressing ourselves to such questions as who controls the meaning and the nature of the reference . |
| 8 | It is of course very difficult for us to reconcile ourselves to such a perspective . |
| 9 | Not least , as I have suggested , the question arises as to how God can be good if God can have revealed himself through such a history and if such a myth is true . |
| 10 | He swiftly chided himself for such thoughts ; he 'd been taught to shun physical contact , even on a platonic level . |
| 11 | This " touched Booth more deeply than any lavish endowment " but lie was loathe for his officer to deny himself for such a long stretch of time . |
| 12 | If Putt is in the habit of making frequent journeys to London he 'll have already rid himself of such incriminating items there . |
| 13 | Whether or not he does it , every person has a duty to God not to ‘ harm another in his life , … liberty , … or goods ’ , and so has a parallel right to defend himself against such attack . |
| 14 | But he continued to insure himself against such social accidents as might reactivate his grief by avoiding the streets of Reine and its inhabitants . |
| 15 | The King had settled himself into such a groove of petulant determination that there was no question of the rejection of the bargain deflecting him for even a few days . |
| 16 | Now how did a giant of the church get himself into such a position ? |
| 17 | Of course I realise that the fallacy is so crude that it would be below the dignity of any academic economist to soil himself with such much . |
| 18 | She understood his need for sport , because she too enjoyed exercise ; what she did not understand was his need to punish himself with such dangerous activities . |
| 19 | Clarissa was horrified lest Charles thought of identifying himself with such a call . |
| 20 | He is quite determined to master the art of the coracle , though as Comptroller of the Queen 's Household he need not concern himself with such trivialities . |
| 21 | He applied for a post in the service of the archduke : but Ferdinand was advised by his mother not to burden himself with such ‘ useless creatures who travel around all over the place , like beggars ’ . |
| 22 | The men who sat or lay near to him on the floor had watched with a curiosity that a man who was held in the Transit gaol at Pot'ma should concern himself with such a small matter as the pin-sharp biting of the louse . |
| 23 | In his early days at the Bar he supported himself with such kindred activities as washing up at Lyons and libel reading for the News of the World . |
| 24 | Chris Patten ( left ) and Michael Heseltine ( right ) : surrounding himself with such figures Major shows a measured approach |
| 25 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 26 | The publisher has formed a limited liability company to protect himself from such contingencies but nevertheless has tried to pass this liability to the private individual . |
| 27 | ’ He made a face , exonerating himself from such indelicacy . |
| 28 | Mr Ceausescu had encased himself in such an impeneterable fortress that Gorbachev spared the Romanian leader from the warning he was to deliver later to Erich Honecker , that ageing leaders who failed to reform in time would pay dearly . |
| 29 | So it is a relief , occasionally , to get a quotation from such as Gilbert White , who , in one paragraph about the hard frost of 1784 , sparkles like Jack himself in such even-toned and worthy surroundings . |
| 30 | R. M. Harmer , author of the Corporation section of the first edition of this book , placed himself in such a position as to be issued the last ticket ( for a 6 pence fare ) . |