Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 2 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 3 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 4 | Each young gentleman was provided with his own chamber-pot , which he was expected to empty for himself on the common midden , situated behind the houses . |
| 5 | Another performer in One Over The Eight who took to Kenneth with the greatest of affection was Lance Percival , soon to make a national name for himself with the top TV satire show of the Sixties , That Was The Week That Was . |
| 6 | It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood . |
| 7 | We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority . |
| 8 | As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before . |
| 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 | ‘ They 've just decided Pat can now take care of himself in the outside world . |
| 11 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ . |
| 14 | It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation . |
| 15 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She sat up , splashing her face with water , catching a glimpse of herself in the steam-clouded mirror . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However , it was not all one-sided and Hammer gave a good account of themselves in the first half , restricting Haslemere to one goal and going close themselves with long-range shots . |
| 23 | Filaments linked living beings with the seeds of themselves in the deep-down ooze . |
| 24 | I could take some colour photos of myself in the whole ensemble and maybe send Marcus one . |
| 25 | Soon I shall start snarling at visitors and grubbing for nourishment in the fields , simply because I can not bear to think of myself in the same category as Betty , and she has laid claim to humanity . |
| 26 | What did that do to me as a person , to my sense of myself in the Christian church ? |
| 27 | Role-taking — the mental placing of oneself in the other person 's position — is central to all forms of human communication . |
| 28 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 29 | Having dug its way out of the compost heap , it must immediately start to fend for itself in the hostile world of the mallee scrub . |
| 30 | 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 . |