Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we all of us want to escape ourselves and remain ourselves , want to leave ourselves behind and take ourselves with us , want the world transfigured and yet to remain ourselves in a transfigured world . |
| 2 | This feeling that we must fight to preserve ourselves against a hostile world is paralleled by deep male fears of losing bodily integrity and idenity . |
| 3 | He opened his eyes to find himself in a dimly-lit tent , seated upon hard muddy grass . |
| 4 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 5 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 6 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 7 | Pearson used these years to provide himself with an artistic education , listening to music , reading widely , and growing increasingly responsive to the beauties of the English countryside . |
| 8 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 9 | But even before it came to public notice earlier this year , poor Mr Engholm was having to struggle to impose himself on a fractious party . |
| 10 | He knows , though , that with first choice Bruce Grobbelaar approaching full fitness after his hamstring trouble and James eager to impose himself in the top flight , that Souness faces a difficult choice . |
| 11 | England have been waiting for Chris Lewis to establish himself as a genuine allrounder since he made his debut in 1990 . |
| 12 | Raising up the wooden clouds to hide himself from the public gaze , he hurried trembling down the ladder and hid in the dark cart , under his quilt . |
| 13 | It seems that the ‘ most powerful screen actor since Brando ’ now wants to reinvent himself as an independent movie mogul . |
| 14 | Hubert Molland was an unpractised driver and his nervousness seemed to communicate itself to the big car , which juddered and groaned alarmingly . |
| 15 | To that extent , the EC does not seem to have accepted the ramifications of the post-communist years and has not decided whether it wants to consolidate itself as a rich man 's club at the western end of the continent of Europe , to which the east Europeans can apply for associate membership , or to widen its institutions , starting with freer trade . |
| 16 | It was on the basis of this document that the Roman Church asserted its prerogative to create kings , as well as to establish itself as a temporal authority . |
| 17 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 18 | One of the first kennels to establish itself as a consistent winner in the show ring was the Tankerville Kennel . |
| 19 | This suggests that while entry to the eurobond market is easy , it is more difficult for a firm to establish itself as a dominant player . |
| 20 | In Azerbaijan the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region voted to establish itself as an independent republic with the support of 99.9 per cent of those who took part in a referendum on the matter , and applied to join the newly-established Commonwealth of Independent States ; Azerbaijan , for its part , voted to abolish the region entirely , renamed its capital city and placed the whole area under the control of a military governor . |
| 21 | Yet it is a testimony to the strength of party during this period that the Court , despite the resources of patronage at its disposal , largely failed to establish itself as an independent interest . |
| 22 | European civilization was the first to impose itself on the whole surface of the globe . |
| 23 | By looking after its past employees , the army sought to position itself as a caring organisation which would encourage new recruits . |
| 24 | She did n't want to find herself with a one-way Goldenrail Supersaver to Belsen . |
| 25 | She did not want to find herself in a hierarchical situation in relation to others at work , thereby creating false barriers and reinforcing the capitalist class structure . |
| 26 | Once she allowed herself to stray away from the main concourse , lured by the strains of a string quartet , to find herself in a large square dominated by a giant plane tree . |
| 27 | Her smile , as she gazed into the camera , was wry and mocking , as though it amused her to find herself in the traditional pose of a mother . |
| 28 | Unsettled at having come halfway around the world to find herself in the same town at the same time as Vitor d'Arcos , she had skipped over any articles which mentioned him , but , on turning a page , had found an article which she could not ignore . |
| 29 | Some transracial adopters may prefer to isolate themselves from the cultural background and ethnic origin of their child because it is easier in the short run to escape conflicts . |
| 30 | ‘ The common denominator in all these children is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life ’ . |