Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt myself to be a source of pollution , and grew to dread my period , especially as I never knew exactly when it was going to come . |
| 2 | I pride myself on being the hardest man on the planet but Dickerson has just reduced my bones to powder . |
| 3 | This paradoxical state of affairs is the result of three factors : due , first , to the large number of commanders who , like Wojciech Jaruzelski , trace their formative upbringing to the USSR and the Soviet organised First and Second Polish Armies of the Second World War ; secondly , to the social ostracism suffered by officers belonging to an army which prides itself on being the guardian of Communist as well as national values . |
| 4 | Wright , who prides himself on being a fierce competitor , was not impressed by the manager 's outburst — but answered the criticism in the best way possible , by scoring Arsenal 's first goal and then keeping them going as Derby fought their way back into the game . |
| 5 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 6 | Margaret Seymour-Strachey ( who prided herself on being the perfect daughter-in-law ) would do anything for her husband 's mother except bring her children into overmuch contact with her . |
| 7 | For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability . |
| 8 | And there is a group of policemen , empowered by the State with all the prerogatives of coercion , who imagine themselves to be a beleaguered and oppressed minority victimized by an all-powerful conspiracy between the white liberal establishment and the black community . |
| 9 | An exception is fellow guest Jamie Lee Curtis who shows herself to be a fervent Soul II Soul fan . |
| 10 | Frederick , a man of limited imagination who thought himself to be the very model of a modern enlightened despot and who had travelled in Poland in his younger years , believed that the Polish nobles and gentry were fools and madmen , deluded Catholic warmongers who lived in a perpetual fog of political weakness and drunken anarchy . |
| 11 | Almost at once she was aiming her brightest smile at the nearest Ardakkean , who proved himself to be a male by grinning back at her and swelling his chest manfully . |
| 12 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 13 | Colebrooke , much lampooned in the press , was a rather pompous , self-important man who considered himself to be the second most influential politician in England . |
| 14 | She , too , was a ‘ scholarship girl ’ and we prided ourselves on being the two most intelligent girls in the place . |
| 15 | An educational Bill of Rights would not stand in place of students ' legal entitlements ; students would , as now , still have the right to pursue a legal claim if they felt themselves to be the victim of an in justice . |
| 16 | He prided himself on being a very well esteemed member of the British community . |
| 17 | When the shot was first used editorially , illustrating a story on alcoholism , the man wrote a furious letter to Doisneau 's agency , Rapho , in which he revealed himself to be a respected professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 18 | That day he committed himself to being a busker . |
| 19 | On the facts the sole issue was whether he believed himself to be the beneficiary . |
| 20 | In his letters to Gundobad , in some of his sermons , and in his versification of the first two books of the Bible , he showed himself to be a reasonable theologian . |
| 21 | In fact , if inspected more closely , it shows itself to be a rickety structure of ad hoc contrivance and ill-founded reductivist moves . |
| 22 | Left to his own reflections , he reveals himself to be a bright , keen opportunist . |
| 23 | And when he met and married Nessie Monaghan , he was immediately aware , like any true artist , that she had the better natural voice and he contented himself with being a better-than-ordinary pub tenor and a hit at every christening , wedding and funeral he attended . |
| 24 | On the basis of this identification he feels himself to be a defender of the ‘ national heritage ’ of the nation' . |
| 25 | He knew himself to be a good forensic pathologist , reliable , more than competent professionally , almost obsessively thorough and painstaking , a convincing and unflappable witness . |
| 26 | He knew himself to be a magical dropout , so it did n't bother him that the mere appearance of a hero at the city gates was enough to cause retorts to explode and demons to materialise all through the Magical Quarter . |
| 27 | The Christian community lived in perpetual proximity , even intimacy , with the larger community of which it felt itself to be a part . |
| 28 | He felt himself to be a kind of recording angel ; it seemed necessary that someone should see all this who was aware of its sinfulness , of its stench in the nostrils of God . |
| 29 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 30 | He had only been half listening to the conversation but now he forced himself to be a more accommodating guest . |