Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [conj] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ears ringing , he recovered himself and turned to peer through the reek . |
| 2 | When Gandhi , with the consent of his wife , took the brahmacārya vow , he regarded himself as having advanced to the vanaprastha stage of life . |
| 3 | Polish television reported on April 20 that the Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action Party ( ROAD ) , established in July 1990 by Solidarity supporters [ see pp. 37620-21 ] , had dissolved itself and had re-formed as the Democratic-Social Movement . |
| 4 | The ‘ meaning ’ of the dream seems therefore not to have been implicit in the dream itself but to have come from the interaction between its imagery and Stevenson 's consciously controlled imagination — ‘ All the rest was made awake … ’ |
| 5 | This morning she had fought a battle with herself and had left off the concealing shirt . |
| 6 | So Vasilissa crossed herself and went trembling among the trees . |
| 7 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 8 | He drew level with Marius and myself and started shouting about the English and how they were always the first to desert ; how he , Corporal Auriega , with four years ' Legion service , who had endured shelling in Beirut and the heat and flies of Chad , had finally had enough . |
| 9 | When you er I mean you 're in that er situation , how do you cope with the idea that you need the money , you need the job , but you 've got to somehow sell yourself and get employed on the best terms ? |
| 10 | ‘ It was like a collective , you could either buy the porn through the mail , or you could send in a tape of yourself and get plugged into the apparatus that way , ’ explains David James , a film professor at the University of Southern California , who has researched the phenomenon . |
| 11 | In much the same way , she suggested that in the aftermath of the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels , the television companies might care to take a long hard look at themselves when seeking to account for the behaviour of the young fans at the European Cup Final : |
| 12 | All unemployed workers are , of course , searching for new jobs ( apart , that is , from those ‘ discouraged workers ’ who regard themselves as having withdrawn from the labour market ) . |