Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emotions , and particularly conflicting emotions , are powerful in their ascendance over intellect and they may display themselves more accurately through the body than through words . |
| 2 | Parliament yesterday confounded widespread predictions that it would wind itself up ahead of the Warsaw Pact 's first free elections scheduled for the spring . |
| 3 | Our discussion this time will restrict itself much more to the two chosen passages , and will need only to take a brief look at a few details of the narratives leading up to them , and at the stories that immediately follow them . |
| 4 | That given , the Burkian thesis must work itself out inexorably to the separation and independence not only of the great colonies ( in the original sense of that word ) but of every island and speck of rock on the globe : where there could not be representation in a common sovereign assembly , ‘ unity ’ would only be de facto and on sufference , and thus diminishing with the passage of time — organic it could never be . |
| 5 | Shortly after his arrival he got together a conference of Anglo-Burmans , who agreed that when they returned to Burma they would ally themselves more closely with the people of the country rather than as exclusively with the British side of their heritage as they had tended to do in pre-war days . |
| 6 | At the rue d'Ulm he could delude himself no longer about the contradictory nature of his existence . |
| 7 | In his article in your March issue Mr Royalton-Kisch roundly criticizes Benesch 's serial method of making attributions to Rembrandt : as a result almost any Rembrandtesque drawing might find itself not just in the catalogue raisonné but might be used as a starting point for further attributions to Rembrandt . |