Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] be [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told us , ‘ My temptation is to keep myself from getting involved with MRA . |
| 2 | Its instinct is to root itself in truth , to earth itself in reality , and it is this which distinguishes faith from fantasy , the object of faith from a figment of the imagination . |
| 3 | His policy is to ingratiate himself with anyone who might be useful to him , a nauseating spectacle . |
| 4 | This may account for his daughter 's distancing herself in her books from the commercial classes and her somewhat self-conscious identification with the upper classes . |
| 5 | Patrick did n't need to be a doctor to know that his mother was drinking herself into an early grave . |