Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The priest must be celibate in order to purify himself for the handling of the sacred in the sacrament .
2 If I did n't know better I 'd think he was trying to be as diplomatic possible in order to keep himself in line for the England job .
3 But he wanted to assure them of a more overpowering reason : he needed to re-establish himself on his home ground as firmly and quickly as possible in order to launch himself on Mary .
4 And that in fact lends itself to be to a new settlement being assimilated into the landscape completely in accord with the criterion of H two .
5 I said at the beginning , when I talked about the woman at the pool , that ‘ the essence of her charm , independent of time revealed itself for a second in that gesture and dazzled me . ’
6 What Benjamin means by ‘ aura ’ or ‘ auratic art ’ is very much what Weber meant by the aesthetic in modernity constituting itself as a separate value sphere .
7 This reformulation shows why it was necessary for Foucault to free himself from what he later termed ‘ the repressive hypothesis ’ of liberation .
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