Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that he also made a little money for himself in the process was considered only reasonable by the majority of fans . |
| 2 | I took one last , depressed look at myself in the mirror above the electric fire and clattered down the stairs . |
| 3 | I have another look at myself in the mirror . |
| 4 | Robson is , however , unlikely to start the game as both sides aim to put some daylight between themselves at the top of the table . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But she 's now making another name for herself as the brains behind the first horse register in the country . |
| 7 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 8 | this is a very good example of er putting interesting detail in the foreground in the way that tall bit of wood there is really making quite a a , an interesting subject in itself in the foreground . |
| 9 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 10 | As the model presents different sides of itself to the wind , it is necessary to hold on various trim offsets to remain stationary ( Fig. 5.1 ) relative to the pilot . |
| 11 | Manson was so pleased with the ensuing panic that rippled through Hollywood after the murders were discovered that he organised another raid , this time with himself as the leader . |
| 12 | After a further telephone interview — this time with myself as the interviewee — for the Radio Times , it seemed I was finished . |
| 13 | Could he give them a few facts about himself for the company 's press release ? |
| 14 | The pity of it was that she had n't made a bigger part for herself in the night 's scenario ; she was getting polite nods and hellos from people that she already knew slightly , and curious glances from most of the others . |
| 15 | Lewis complained that he could not see any personal relevance for himself in the story of Christ . |
| 16 | He sat and squinted through watering eyes at a coloured , enlarged picture of himself on the wall ahead of him . |
| 17 | Betty would probably rather be in the Dordogne , but she was here making sure that Lydia did n't lay violent hands on herself in the profundity of her misery , or let herself go to seed in the spiritless fashion of an old thistle . |
| 18 | For the first time since 1952 Bentley has an all-new shape to itself with the massive Continental R coupe . |
| 19 | At the beginning I think I loved her ; I certainly poured vast amounts of myself into the relationship . |
| 20 | If you are trying to establish a respectable place for yourself in the tennis market place , let's see some more balanced reporting and less tabloid journalism . |
| 21 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 22 | She is the one who will have devoted the greater part of her married life to the job of child-raising and who will have invested a large part of herself in the children . |
| 23 | One reason must be the inevitable distancing of oneself from the intensity and nearness of the experience . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He can , though , take a quick throw-in to himself in the '22 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The plants needed up to 3000 poles an acre to grow , a fairly intensive demand in itself on the exploitation of Wealden underwood . |
| 29 | Mrs Brocklebank had created a little nest for herself in the basement where she put her clothes and her big black handbag , from which she was only rarely and reluctantly parted , and where she tucked away any odds and ends it was better Brock at home did not see . |
| 30 | Take three photographs of yourself at the beginning of this programme — a straight front view , a side view and a back view . |