Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It requires a continuous programme of selling themselves to the Catholic community . |
| 2 | On the other side , men of letters have so few opportunities of applying themselves to the general practice that the rules they lay down , however plausible they may seem in the closet , would often ruin the honest gardener who should venture to follow them . |
| 3 | Admittedly , a hard-pressed politician could occasionally borrow a cadetship or other appointment from another director , promising to repay the loan in a future year , but the small size of the Indian official class meant that such a practice of burdening oneself for the future could be hazardous . |
| 4 | Government critics predicted that violence would now escalate , arguing that Fujimori had played into the hands of Sendero , which had long wished to provoke a military coup in the hope of establishing itself as the sole democratic force opposed to a repressive government . |
| 5 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 6 | This kind of putting oneself in the place of another and attempting to portray and communicate something through a medium which is unsuitable to it is very essential for an understanding of religion . |
| 7 | But he 'd shown definite signs of resigning himself to the situation — until her arrival downstairs after breakfast . |
| 8 | A classic case of shooting ourselves in the foot , the chairman , Sir Alan Cockshaw , admitted ruefully yesterday . |
| 9 | He is a star who takes himself seriously and his method-acting technique of thinking himself into the part is legendary . |
| 10 | As the previous chapter shows , the development officers were rarely involved at all with those clients if they were in the action samples ; since in no real sense could they be said to have had the opportunity of availing themselves of the action project , they are omitted ( in both action and control samples ) from most of the following analysis . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ I take this opportunity of dedicating myself to the service of my constituents and in any capacity whatsoever to the people of my country . |
| 12 | The vast majority of the black sportsmen have aspirations of detaching themselves from the routines of school , employment — or unemployment — and wringing out a career in sports , even athletics , ostensibly an amateur sport but bountiful enough in ‘ gifts ’ and sponsorships to make it a lucrative career . |
| 13 | In his memoirs , Wilson makes no bones of placing himself in the line of succession of Baldwin , Churchill and Macmillan . |
| 14 | Breakfast and lunch is usually a question of helping yourself in the kitchen . |
| 15 | Let the wave carry him up and then sort of hurl himself off the top of it . |
| 16 | But er we found a pair of jeans er and having made sure that the jeans were empty of anything , er we sort of shuffled himself into the jeans a he lay down and we pulled , I I pulled the jeans up . |
| 17 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 18 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 19 | However , he appreciated the cathartic nature of expressing himself through the written word . |
| 20 | Since most of the beginner 's forensic work will be in county courts and magistrates ' courts , he should make a special point of familiarising himself with the procedure and powers of these courts . |
| 21 | Mr Battleaxe is in danger of lancing himself in the foot : in the sentence quoted from my letter , he inserts the word ‘ sic ’ — inside curved brackets . |
| 22 | They are aware of the danger of putting themselves in the same opposition boat as the Party of Democratic Socialism , formerly the communist party , which has its doubts about unity . |
| 23 | Many members of the oligarchy , particularly the military , have powerful financial interests in gambling and prostitution , but on the other hand , prostitutes are always in danger of finding themselves outside the margin of the law . |
| 24 | Agencies who intervene are in danger of finding themselves in the role of persecutors ! |
| 25 | She had been out of prison for two months and was in the process of re-establishing herself in the outside world . |
| 26 | Everyone knows that that book is a critique of ‘ logocentrism ’ ; what is less often recalled is that the terms of the critique with which it opens announce the design of focusing attention on logocentrism 's ethnocentrism ’ which , Derrida suggests , is ‘ nothing but the most original and powerful ethnocentrism , in the process of imposing itself upon the world ’ . |
| 27 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 28 | If she did n't remainder the dragon , she could forget her chance of freeing herself of the D-9000 . |
| 29 | MANAGER Ray Hankin blasted his side for ‘ defending like amateurs ’ after errors cost Quakers the chance of lifting themselves off the bottom of the table . |
| 30 | If you are well practised in a careful approach , having learned the art of blending yourself into the background and moving with the silence and stealth of a hungry alley-cat , then you will soon be close enough to identify them as chub . |