Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pn reflx] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the musical ascendancy of Italy did not begin to assert itself immediately after the deaths of Josquin and Isaac and their great contemporaries , Pierre de La Rue and Loyset Compere , its foundations were already laid . |
| 2 | among anthropologists and among philosophers but I dare say that most readers of this book would like to situate themselves somewhere on the Epicurean side of the fence ; so would I , but the intellectual difficulties which flow from that position are very great . |
| 3 | ‘ I like their style of football and would like to test myself out in the Sydney Premiership . |
| 4 | And we are moving into an age , I think it must be recognised , where some of the traditional jobs for girls , for example , secretaries , shops , things of this sort , are actually being decreased because of the technological revolution , so bearing in mind that something like seventy per cent of women are actually in employment , it 's very important that a girl , at the age of thirteen or fourteen , does not decide to cut herself off from the possibility of employment in these technological , engineering fields . |
| 5 | Did you have to psych yourself up for the part ? |
| 6 | Is it possible , ’ wondered the earl , appealing deferentially to Prior Robert 's more profound instruction in things holy , ‘ that for some beneficent purpose of her own she may have transferred herself miraculously from the place where she was laid ? |
| 7 | This means that Mr Skinner , who voted in more Commons divisions than any other MP last session , will have to absent himself occasionally from the chamber . |
| 8 | He 's been reckon she must have locked herself up in the dark . |
| 9 | And , if it had not been for the speedy response from the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 10 | And if it had not been for the speedy response of the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 11 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
| 12 | She could have taken herself off to the local Italian with her child and a book of her own , for Kate also likes reading though her tastes are less morbific . |
| 13 | Well I 'll have to move myself away from the school gate they can just they think I 'll be actually waiting |
| 14 | Rule-following as a practice must therefore be able to carry on without anything to support it , and we must attempt to wean ourselves away from the feeling of vertigo which is engendered by our recognition of the lack of support . |