Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 2 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 3 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 4 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 5 | The management prides itself on the true Italian-style home cooking served in the dining-room , and the excellent roof-top terrace affords beautiful views over Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples . |
| 6 | Even Hermsprong ( 1796 ) , one of the first political novels , whose eponymous hero models himself on the noble savage , confines itself to great houses or to those that emulate them , while the savage himself , in true romance tradition , turns out to be an aristocrat , and the rightful heir to his wicked uncle 's estate . |
| 7 | While foot-based metre(s) do display promotion , they are typically " heavier " lines , and such heaviness shows itself in the high degree of demotion ( e.g. of lexical monosyllables — blind in three blind mice ) and subordination within the line . |
| 8 | His new work attaches itself to the ready-made tradition , taking the theme of laziness into ‘ a la recherche du temps perdu ’ . |
| 9 | As my right hon. Friend prepares himself for the important meeting with President Yeltsin later this week in London , will he take the opportunity of seeing what can be done to deal with the massive threat which still exists from all the different independent Russian states ? |
| 10 | MAGNUS FINDS HIMSELF IN THE HOT SEAT |
| 11 | Cinema manager grooms himself before the main feature |
| 12 | The Franco-German axis styles itself as the leading force in the Community and , while both countries make explicit reference to their special relationship in speeches in each other 's countries , the primacy of this alliance is clearly played down in the other countries of the EC , not least because it negates the whole point of having a community . |
| 13 | Genet reinscribes himself within the violent hierarchies of his oppression , installing himself there relentlessly to invert and pervert them . |
| 14 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 15 | The student positions himself with the right foot forward , and the body weight evenly distributed . |
| 16 | Thus within hospitals the Alliance of Health Workers ( AHW ) has formed which as a union allies itself with the progressive national union federation . |
| 17 | One problem with that is that the feminist movement in Europe distances itself from the mass movement . |
| 18 | Precisely because the Church mistakes herself for the present form of the Kingdom , God 's rule has often had to manifest itself in the secular world outside , and frequently against , the Church ’ ( Pannenberg 1975:78 ) . |
| 19 | CATHERINE Zeta Jones sees herself as the new Barbra Streisand . |
| 20 | Bishop John Crowley writing to the priests and religious in the diocese , says : ‘ The next Synod of Bishops concerns itself with the Consecrated Life in the Church and the World . |
| 21 | The tRNA attaches itself to the appropriate amino acid . |
| 22 | The project prides itself on the intensive post-placement support offered to the children by their old key workers , and to the family by the family placement worker . |
| 23 | The bush welds itself to the primary shaft and will not disengage . |
| 24 | This simply means that the normal 8-hour duty shift is split ; for example , 4 hours on duty , 2 hours off duty , then 4 hours on duty , or 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the evening , or whatever combination lends itself to the efficient running of the hotel . |
| 25 | In the case of surveys there will always be some form of pilot survey before the researcher commits himself to the main fieldwork itself , and the more planning there is done beforehand , the less wasted time there will be in the fieldwork proper , and the easier will be the next stage , which is the analysis of the data collected . |
| 26 | This fatalism lends itself to the infamous Burmese bureaucracy , partly because bureaucracy looks like efficiency , partly because bureaucracy fits so neatly into the unchanging Buddhist worldview . |
| 27 | I seem to remember several cases in which the court considered to what extent the solicitor involves himself in the financial arrangements for a conveyancing transaction . |
| 28 | The sublime back section merges itself with the boisterous front and all is similar . |
| 29 | Citalia prices itself on the unrivalled choice of accommodation it offers and this year the range is even further expanded with the addition of 60 new hotels . |
| 30 | Willy sees himself as the beneficent saviour who will ‘ irrigate ’ her ‘ emotional desert ’ ( 17,138 ) , and any attempt by her to suggest that she might be happier without him is ‘ blackmarked against me as pretentiousness ’ ( 136 ) . |