Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Positioning ourselves just inside the sheltering arm , outside which we could see an alarming amount of white water , we awaited his signal . |
| 2 | ( We shall not concern ourselves here with the exact formulation of the regularity : we shall merely note the evidence of its presence . ) |
| 3 | We will confine ourselves here to the state-owned case , leaving regulation to chapter 5 . |
| 4 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 5 | Confronted with a party weighted in favour of the clerical , he nevertheless took a thoughtful look at Hugh Beringar , and addressed himself rather to the secular justice . |
| 6 | An earlier hero , in The Black Prince ( 1973 ) , is a failed writer who creatively fulfils himself only in the enforced loneliness of a prison cell when he is convicted for a murder he has not committed . |
| 7 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 8 | He throws himself entirely on the divine generosity of which he has already had such rich experience . |
| 9 | At the same time , it was not to be supposed that William Joyce had put himself entirely on the wrong side of the law . |
| 10 | Pulling himself away from the older man , he ran after Maisie , who was now somewhere out in the road . |
| 11 | He looked at himself critically in the small mirror on the window ledge in the lean-to . |
| 12 | He interrupted her thoughts and showed he was himself still on the same track , for he observed , ‘ I 've been called many things in my time , but never a bully , or , ’ he frowned again , ‘ a megalomaniac out of a horror movie . ’ |
| 13 | What did bother her was the realisation that very soon Luke could find himself part of the same mess . |
| 14 | He had also developed such affection for his owner , and had become so possessive of her , that if he saw her stroking another horse , he would roar with rage and throw himself sideways against the nearest fence , cutting and scraping his skin so that it bled . |
| 15 | Up to the age of thirty or so he appeared to devote himself mainly to the social life of various celebrated Parisian salons . |
| 16 | From the beginning , the evening bore all the hallmarks of success , Luke adapting himself immediately to the light holiday mood of Sam and Anna , and sweeping Merrill along with him . |
| 17 | Kirov did little actual business there , for he had deliberately priced himself well outside the common market . |
| 18 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 19 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 20 | Pacing himself steadily along the dusty track , the Doctor halted when his flickering eyes fell upon an unnatural addition to the landscape . |
| 21 | His spirit had not been broken ; rather he was afraid of tearing himself apart with the involuntary jerking of one side of his limbs in the opposite direction to the other . |
| 22 | He implants ideas , gives clues , prompts proposals , and avoids committing himself publicly until the last moment . |
| 23 | Brute farce , however effective in terrorizing people , is not by itself enough in the longer run . |
| 24 | The Butlins Empire has now had to market itself anew for the experienced package tourist ; a move from wooden chalets to brick-built country suites , from the Minehead Camp to Summerwest World . |
| 25 | THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it . |
| 26 | In the increasingly popular idiom of so-called ‘ performance arts ’ actors and audiences revel in non-verbal excesses in the belief that such behaviour addresses itself directly to the human soul and that all other forms of traditional theatre are disgustingly ‘ literary ’ . |
| 27 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
| 28 | This defeat was itself part of the wider eclipse of state medicine in the 1870s and 1880s , which opened the space for purity groups to push for their own conception of sexual reform through the criminal law . |
| 29 | They visibly sharpened at the end of the decade as medics were forced onto the defensive by a growing feminist campaign demanding the repeal of the acts — itself part of the wider upsurge of the mid-Victorian women 's movement . |
| 30 | Gripping the chain with determination the ferry hauled itself bravely through the grey twilight . |