Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pn reflx] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was starting to feel like a bundle of notes about himself in a case-history folder in hospital , one of the folders labelled ‘ NOT TO BE HANDLED BY PATIENT . ’ |
| 2 | Claudia stared at what looked like a photograph of herself in a revealing and over-elaborate evening dress . |
| 3 | Every gesture , each movement has something planned , even the way he arranges himself in a chair , his hands behind his head , catching glimpses of himself in the polished surfaces , squinting at his reflection , all with an inquisitive vanity . |
| 4 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 5 | Clearly , out of sorts with himself in the wet and windy conditions which he hated , he smashed his racquet on the ground on no less than eight occasions . |
| 6 | As unemployment has risen , more and more women have been forced to invent work for themselves in the informal sector , in street sales or occasional domestic work . |
| 7 | The Green Lady is also the subject of an oil painting ; a portrait of herself in a green dress which the Spanish lady gave to the Bolle family as a gift . |
| 8 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 9 | American oil companies ( fearful of the knock-on effects to themselves in the Middle East if Iranian radicals were seen to succeed ) proved more enthusiastic allies than the State Department . |
| 10 | The firm badly needs this market share to buy time , so it can fully adapt to the new Windows world and carve out a place for itself in the growing groupware market . |
| 11 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 12 | The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) . |
| 13 | Filaments linked living beings with the seeds of themselves in the deep-down ooze . |
| 14 | Guy Ferris , already making a name for himself in the right circles , made a surprisingly determined play for the younger Miss Fox . |
| 15 | A year after our idle talk at Windrush , Judith Evelyn was in New York rehearsing her leading lines for Patrick Campbell 's great play ‘ Gaslight ’ , in which she starred on Broadway from December , 1941 ( the same week as Pearl Harbour ) for the next two years , and made a lasting name for herself in the American theatre . |
| 16 | He can , though , take a quick throw-in to himself in the '22 . |
| 17 | Sir Richard Southern has made famous the extraordinary story of how the twelve great-great-grandchildren of a tenth-century priest divided a substantial part of the income of Arezzo cathedral among themselves in the late eleventh century . |
| 18 | M Beregovoy says that he accepted the money from his ‘ friend , ’ Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help buy a modest , 100 sq m flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs . |
| 19 | Mr Beregovoy says he accepted the money from his ‘ friend ’ , Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help to buy a modest , 100 square yard flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs . |
| 20 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |
| 21 | She sat up , splashing her face with water , catching a glimpse of herself in the steam-clouded mirror . |
| 22 | It takes imagination and a lot of practice to read a play to yourself in the same time as it would take to see it on the stage . |
| 23 | Do n't bother would be more honest , for he prefers to have the kitchen to himself in the early morning , to prepare his own simple breakfast and enjoy the first cigarette of the day undisturbed . |
| 24 | What did that do to me as a person , to my sense of myself in the Christian church ? |
| 25 | She caught sight of herself in a long gilt mirror and smoothed her fair hair . |
| 26 | Catching sight of herself in a full-length , cane-framed mirror on the wall , she paused , a sick feeling growing inside her , and she groaned . |
| 27 | After her brief confrontation with Romano de Sciorto she was trembling all over , she registered dimly , catching sight of herself in an ornate Venetian mirror on the wall . |
| 28 | Catching sight of herself in the long wall-mirror as she pulled a peach-coloured , button-necked nightshirt over her head , she found herself wondering what Guy was doing . |
| 29 | Wrapping her arms round herself in a futile attempt to retain some body-heat , she began the long walk back to the cottage . |
| 30 | Though soon earning more than an apprentice boy of her age , she was unlikely to keep much of her wages for herself in the early years . |