Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pn reflx] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 2 | Country people may well have to look to themselves in the future , and to the skills of men like Dave Dunn . |
| 3 | Take the time to look at yourself in the mirror and recognise the improvements . |
| 4 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 5 | That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’ |
| 6 | She made Terry try it on , take it off , changed something else , and finally , at gone midnight , she had done all that she could do , and only then did she allow Terry to look at herself in the mirror . |
| 7 | He should try to think of himself in the kind of situations which the drill sentences suggest . |
| 8 | Domestic cats left to fend for themselves in the wild would still spend much of their time asleep , and conserve their energy for hunting at dawn and dusk . |