Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add to all this that they endow themselves with rightness and send their mutual corroboration cascading through all levels of our information systems . |
| 2 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 3 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 4 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 5 | She felt a deep , sensual pleasure as she held his leaping , quivering manhood in check , but the heat of him was so dangerously exciting that she arched herself in mute supplication , begging him to give her the release that her body craved . |
| 6 | The memory was so strong that he lost himself in it . |
| 7 | It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US . |
| 8 | In the late 1850s Stringfellow took up the new art of photography , becoming so proficient that he advertised himself as a professional portrait photographer , with a studio in the High Street of Chard . |
| 9 | The dream can seem so real that he believes himself to be wide awake . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 11 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 12 | It was in 1978 that he overreached himself with a little plan to sell illicit diamonds bought by his askaris from a diamond dealer in Lesotho . |
| 13 | But there ( at H.S. 's ) the food is so beautiful that she applies herself to it . |
| 14 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
| 15 | The Chronicle A ( s.a. 685 ) says that Caedwalla began to contend for the kingship in 685 , but it was not until 686 that he established himself as king over the western Saxons . |
| 16 | It was to the former that he believed himself to be responding . |
| 17 | ( And rather shocked that he helped himself to two of Helmut 's silk scarves . |
| 18 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't find it particularly surprising that you allowed yourself to be seduced by her . |