Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive .
2 We treated ourselves to a sweet as well .
3 In several respects , though , the fate of Black Fury had confirmed basic Warner Bros notions and they continued to pick up ideas for movies from the daily papers , they went on believing that social melodrama could be profitable , and they had been given further evidence that Muni could win acclaim by projecting himself as a hard-done-by but eventually triumphant saint .
4 Rather than contenting himself with a specific and clearly defined puzzle , Poulantzas aims to give a broad account of the capitalist state , which will show what it is and what it does by revealing its connections with the various instances of the social whole .
5 When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person .
6 We are confident that IBM is indeed primarily interested in the morphing business even as it metamorphoses itself into a new and presumably reinvigorated enterprise .
7 Given the diversity of membership within both organisations , neither was likely to metamorphose itself into a different and more integrated organisation .
8 The 460,000 Antwerpers think of themselves as the liveliest and most sociable of Belgians .
9 Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets .
10 They can advertise themselves in the truest and most direct way possible : the experience of friends , colleagues or neighbours who make up the union .
11 But they have more difficulty defending themselves on the second and more serious charge .
12 Secondly , the provision of subways and footbridges should be avoided where possible , for they are often ignored by pedestrians who would rather dodge through the cars than climb to bridge level or expose themselves to the unpleasant and sometimes dangerous environment of a subway .
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