Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you decide on a honeymoon at home or you 're planning a trip abroad it 's a wonderful excuse to treat yourself to a couple of new outfits for the beach and it 's essential to look after yourself and protect against the sun 's more harmful rays . |
| 2 | A man was meant to be doubtful about himself but undoubting about the truth . |
| 3 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 4 | He was not in any sense a vain man , but he had a conceit of himself that came from the knowledge that he dominated every quarter that he occupied . |
| 5 | And while he says that he is prepared to go on doing musicals until he has one that really works , he would probably not agree with that picture of himself as fighting against the tide . |
| 6 | Then Gascoigne , hitherto a pale shadow of himself and stifled by the physical attention of man-marker Walter Bonacina , made his heroic contribution and doused those particular flames . |
| 7 | These groups , like all élites , have no previous perception of themselves as belonging to the troublesome classes , and it does not do for the police to remind them that the application of control can be redirected depending on who is defining the ‘ illegalities ’ . |
| 8 | I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that . |
| 9 | She said that she woke up one day and did not feel lost or depressed , did not wonder what she was going to do with herself or reach for the phone to try and summon up some company . |
| 10 | She made friendly overtures , invited her to stay in their large , warm , scenic , colourful , untidy house in Sussex , told Alix to live for herself and look to the future , offered to look after the baby whenever Alix needed a break . |
| 11 | Then she pretended to be a mute — she always invented some oddness about herself when consorting with the preening rich boys of the city . |
| 12 | Such demands highlight the extent to which geographic information management must be regarded as a means to an end rather than an end in itself when viewed from the standpoints of the needs of planners and decision-makers . |
| 13 | ‘ B is for Bell , ’ ' Paul said quietly , nodding to himself and staring at the rusting device . |
| 14 | She 'd thought he was going to turn his back on Timothy Gedge and on herself and run into the house so that they would n't see his tears . |
| 15 | So why not make things hard for yourself and send for the full Just Desks catalogue or call in at our showrooms and see everything else we can offer you . |
| 16 | IF YOU are catering for yourselves and driving to the resort , stock up at a hypermarket before you get there to avoid paying astronomical prices . |
| 17 | IN DARLINGTON there is a move to get people thinking for themselves and acting on the idea instead of allowing others to think for them . |
| 18 | * Do n't talk about yourself or comment on the exam unless you are explicitly asked to . |
| 19 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 20 | Crawford travelled to New York by himself and booked into the Algonquin Hotel just before Christmas 1966 , tucking into a turkey sandwich and cold tea on the festive day and desperately missing wife Gabrielle and baby Emma , who were staying with Gabrielle 's father on his farm in Kent . |
| 21 | He wrapped a short raincoat around himself and ran up the front path . |
| 22 | Employed in a maisonette in a London suburb , she ate by herself and slept in the junk room , enduring agonies of loneliness and misery . |
| 23 | At this early stage the caterpillars are fairly easy to find because while still quite small they live inside a silk canopy , which they spin around themselves when feeding on the nettle tops . |