Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pn reflx] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The section does not specifically empower the policeman to give directions as to how the actor should conduct himself in the future ( as by leaving the spot ) . |
| 2 | That being so , ‘ I must immerse myself in the atmosphere of my homeland . ’ |
| 3 | Our highest and most serious imaginative inventions may show themselves in the medium of the arts . |
| 4 | It may show itself in the formation of groups with a hierarchical power structure , or as an outwardly driving force , such as is found in a hunting group . |
| 5 | Interest is now focused on how this might manifest itself in the government 's promised rethink on constitutional reform . |
| 6 | He might lose himself in the books sometimes , but he might find the Key there , too . |
| 7 | In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in . |
| 8 | From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on . |
| 9 | If such a proposal was adopted by the GMC Kay and his committee might find themselves in the dock . |
| 10 | She could busy herself in the garden till then . |
| 11 | He could see himself in the garden with Fraulein Simonis , investigating those dark eyes at closer quarters . |
| 12 | She tended to be over-indulgent with Victoria , partly because she could see herself in the child and partly too , in some perverse fashion , to make up for what she considered to be her own harsh upbringing under Jonadab 's strict rules . |
| 13 | She showed no inclination to argue further , but lay back in her chair , smiling at Robert , and I saw that it was not , as I had believed , understanding and acceptance that her smile revealed , not that their marriage was so secure it could sustain itself in the face of any disagreement , but that Lili could afford to be pleasant because she had no scruples . |
| 14 | Or I got a garden , I could occupy myself in the garden . |
| 15 | These could supervene powerfully in the individual personality — as they evidently did in that of Akhenaten — but , more frequently perhaps , these psychopathological tendencies could manifest themselves in the culture of the agricultural society , perhaps as fire-festivals ( with attendant witch-delusions ) or as full-blown cults of solar-imperial megalomania . |
| 16 | Like the owl , it could lose itself in the forest . |
| 17 | As she danced she could lose herself in the movement . |
| 18 | This might then account for the apparently non-environmentally controlled distribution pattern in which other species could insinuate themselves in the holes of the forest ‘ lattice ’ devoid of the first species . |
| 19 | We are in an interesting position , where we could shoot ourselves in the foot — but we want to grow our own business , here in Newtonmore . ’ |
| 20 | Accounts also tell how he used to lock himself in the church all night . |
| 21 | This doubt may manifest itself in the wish to delay the decision . |
| 22 | 1 shall limit myself in the rest of this chapter to the most interesting and influential of these theories , those of Ransom and the other Southern critics Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate , and those of W.K. Wimsatt and his collaborator the philosopher Monroe Beardsley ; all of these writers were active mainly in the forties and fifties . |
| 23 | ‘ All the people in this valley is descended from four brothers from Scotland called Leekie , ’ Nana sat heavily down on the upright rush-seated chair which was the most she would permit herself in the way of comfort , and began the tale as Martha had always heard her tell it . |
| 24 | Sometimes he would forget himself in the beauty of their flight , not understanding why people would come to see him and the other miserable eagles caged and confined and not seem to even notice the gulls and bold black rooks soaring freely and so beautifully above their heads . |
| 25 | If he was n't careful he would find himself in the dungeon — or dead . |
| 26 | I would declare myself in the waiting-room of a railway station if it were necessary ) , he said that I was humiliating him . |
| 27 | Particularly this will show itself in the gift of availability to another , a conducive meeting-place , the courtesy of taking the phone off the hook , keeping confidences and having grace to forget as well as remember things people tell us . |
| 28 | The philanthropist Helen Bosanquet drew eagerly on the work of the French sociologist Frederick Le Play to argue that the ‘ stable family ’ with its male breadwinner was ‘ the only known way of ensuring with any approach to success , that one generation will exert itself in the interests and for the sake of another ’ . |
| 29 | Since it can not be known as a concept that will realize itself in the future , Sartre argues instead that the totality only produces itself in the moment : ‘ The incarnation as such is at once unrealizable except as totalization of everything and irreducible to a pure abstract unity of that which it totalizes ’ ( II , 58 ) . |
| 30 | Whatever promises of anonymity are given , the people involved will recognize themselves in the characters portrayed , and this may cause difficulties . |