Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another 10 or 12 years , history will show that it is more likely that nation states will look after themselves to a greater extent than hitherto . |
| 2 | He was starting to feel like a bundle of notes about himself in a case-history folder in hospital , one of the folders labelled ‘ NOT TO BE HANDLED BY PATIENT . ’ |
| 3 | One day he would like to make a name for himself as a public trainer — but that is some way in the future . |
| 4 | Taken along with his restrained reaction to the repression of the pro-democracy movement in China itself [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , his attitude gave rise to some suggestions that he saw a role for himself as a potential mediator in the Hong Kong issue . |
| 5 | I got the impression that he was extremely alarmed about his own position and was determined to eliminate any risk for himself by a massive change of Government . |
| 6 | God is God , not man writ large ; and he can not be spoken of simply by speaking of ourselves in a loud voice . |
| 7 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 8 | The Roman Church of the time was quite prepared to concur with Constantine 's conception of himself as a genuine Messiah , and a more successful Messiah than Jesus . |
| 9 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 10 | He thought of himself as a great collector — I believe there were great collections of Chinese porcelain made by Victorian and Edwardian connoisseurs , but he was pretty small fry , just being fashionable . " |
| 11 | Gustave imagined he was a wild beast — he loved to think of himself as a polar bear , distant , savage and solitary . |
| 12 | This dual heritage sharpened the sense of himself as a fused centre between the dream world of a long-vanished civilization and the natural world he observed scientifically . |
| 13 | When Craft and Stravinsky visited him in the autumn of this year , Craft has recorded how he looked " younger and livelier " than he had before , but that he seemed " to think of himself as a hoary ancient with little time left . |
| 14 | The story that is told is a story which never ends — and which risks losing shape and momentum — because it is a story told of himself by a living author , an author who has yet to end , whose isolate 's imaginative fury lives on to tell another tale , some more of his own story . |
| 15 | Identification is a process which occurs when the ego , in part abandoning its awareness of itself as a separate entity , equates itself , or some aspect of itself , with some external thing . |
| 16 | Then , as now , the Conservative Party in the 1950s liked to think of itself as a lonely beacon of responsibility in a moral wilderness of couldn't-care-less ‘ permissiveness ’ and selfish ‘ I 'm all right Jack ’ attitudes . |
| 17 | Lying on her bed , the vision of herself as a razor-backed hog with warts on its face haunts her . |
| 18 | The key passage , from this point of view , is the temptation offered by Weston/Satan ( the Un-Man ) to which the Woman all but yields : the image of herself as a great soul . |
| 19 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 20 | For example , a woman highly committed to her parenting role would be particularly sensitive to an event which threatened her view of herself as a good mother , such as discovering her child had been regularly truanting from school . |
| 21 | At the same time the end of the period during which the woman has been potentially , at least , a mother may be marked by changes in self-regard and her view of herself as a sexual being . |
| 22 | She thinks of herself as a discursive fabric in which beliefs get lodged and are subsequently removed . |
| 23 | ‘ My aunt in America sent us a photo of herself in a black dress after Grandad died and it was very plain . |
| 24 | She caught sight of herself in a long gilt mirror and smoothed her fair hair . |
| 25 | The Green Lady is also the subject of an oil painting ; a portrait of herself in a green dress which the Spanish lady gave to the Bolle family as a gift . |
| 26 | The yolk-yellow walls were layered with seed merchants ' calendars , charts and various photographs of herself in a white coat holding a haltered bull , his forehead dabbed with rosettes , from the days when she bred Herefords . |
| 27 | Imagine that you are watching a home movie of yourself as a small child of seven or eight years old . |
| 28 | Do you think of yourself as a latent graffiti artist ? |
| 29 | ‘ That implies you think of yourself as a poor sap — and that , Feargal McMahon , you will never get me to believe ! |
| 30 | It 's so much more fun being a ‘ winner ’ than a ‘ loser ’ and if you think of yourself as a born loser , you 're wrong ! |