Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] [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 | Nice and easy for those of you just beginning to try your hand at intarsia and it 's not too difficult to work out the chart for yourself with the many aids available . |
| 3 | Imagine that you are watching a home movie of yourself as a small child of seven or eight years old . |
| 4 | To escape this branding of myself as a bodily failure , I longed to be able to attach myself to an organisation stronger than myself , an association through which I could derive a feeling of physical achievement and personal status I would not otherwise possess . |
| 5 | Claudia stared at what looked like a photograph of herself in a revealing and over-elaborate evening dress . |
| 6 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Roman Church of the time was quite prepared to concur with Constantine 's conception of himself as a genuine Messiah , and a more successful Messiah than Jesus . |
| 11 | It is up to the Vendors to allocate the risks amongst themselves via a separate Deed of Contribution . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Detached from the orbit of the old Raymondin counts of Toulouse , they were carving out a quasi-autonomous sphere of influence for themselves along the Pyrenean frontier . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Having ‘ failed ’ to find the curriculum or examination version of the Holy Grail for themselves during the sixties and seventies ( and having exhausted themselves in the process ) the schools are , at the moment , resigned to accepting a string of panaceas from without — the YTS/TVEI initiatives are now being superseded or subsumed by the National Curriculum cure-all . |
| 16 | Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | You do n't really think I risked making a fool of myself for a quick thank-you and a handshake , do you ? ’ |
| 19 | While she stood staring at it , breathing heavily and conscious that if anyone had made a fool of herself during the past few minutes it was Melissa Craig , the phone began to ring again . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Drinks with strange women after the show fitted well into the fantasy of himself as the big West End star that the night 's performance had engendered . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She could hear him repeating phrases to himself through the thin wall between her room and his . |
| 24 | Scotland failing to capitalise on pressure and inflicting wounds on themselves at the same time is another common event , though , and a first-half penalty missed by Gary McAllister had a profound effect on Andy Roxburgh 's side . |
| 25 | In TRACE II units at the same level fight amongst themselves for the available supporting evidence . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I wanted a space blanket even more , but I could not take anything from the Land Rover for myself until the next settlement . |
| 28 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 29 | We can only know the truth about ourselves from an outside source . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |