Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 2 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 3 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 4 | It does not do any harm to have a look and see what firms say about themselves in the various directories , including The Legal 500 , The Chambers Directory of Solicitors and Barristers and The Law Society Directory . |
| 5 | After all we were all leading aircraftsmen on the course and the officer element were acting pilot officers on probation who generally referred to themselves as the lowest form of animal life within the RAF . |
| 6 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 7 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 8 | This information will be considered by ourselves at the key features review and due diligence stages . |
| 9 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 10 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |
| 11 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 12 | I feared that without him I would batten down the hatches of the physical part of me and crawl back inside the shell which I had built around myself in the three years before he blew through my life . |
| 13 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 14 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 15 | The subtle mind used against itself by the simple mind . |
| 16 | It 's like a B-movie from a past of happier memories , turned against itself by the one British director who truly understands the mode . |
| 17 | er the E C has really bought upon itself with the common agricultural policy a big animal that is very slow to move and it 's not really any advantages of each individual . |
| 18 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 19 | But finally a muddy old train trundles in from deepest Essex , chattering to itself like the Little Red Engine : ‘ I 'm a good little engine , I climbed over the hill . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 21 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 22 | She loved to walk by herself on the wild lonely moors , with her dog Keeper running by her side . |
| 23 | I ca n't think of a time when I would be going by myself in the near future . |
| 24 | And he can finish a golden year late next summer with the much-awaited showdown against Chris Eubank , who took Benn 's WBO middleweight title nearly two years ago before moving up himself to the 12 stone limit . |
| 25 | I was called to myself by the echoing hoot of the ferry 's siren , to find that the shop had emptied of its crowd , and the postmistress , taking off her spectacles , was hurrying round to the store counter to look after the stranger . |
| 26 | He refers to symbols as pointing beyond themselves to the Ultimate while at the same time partaking of the nature of that to which they point . |
| 27 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 28 | Until now we have assumed that banks decide for themselves upon the appropriate ratio in the light of their desire for profit and need for liquidity . |
| 29 | The 2/2 Independent Company could now fulfil this role because they had remained a cohesive force , not just as a result of their training and leadership but in no small measure because these were men used to living in dry country and capable of fending for themselves in the basic departments of survival . |
| 30 | ‘ So what have you been doing with yourself for the last five years ? ’ he asked , leaning back in his chair and looking quizzically at her . |