Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took one last , depressed look at myself in the mirror above the electric fire and clattered down the stairs . |
| 2 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 3 | this is a very good example of er putting interesting detail in the foreground in the way that tall bit of wood there is really making quite a a , an interesting subject in itself in the foreground . |
| 4 | Lewis complained that he could not see any personal relevance for himself in the story of Christ . |
| 5 | He sat and squinted through watering eyes at a coloured , enlarged picture of himself on the wall ahead of him . |
| 6 | For the first time since 1952 Bentley has an all-new shape to itself with the massive Continental R coupe . |
| 7 | If you are trying to establish a respectable place for yourself in the tennis market place , let's see some more balanced reporting and less tabloid journalism . |
| 8 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 9 | She is the one who will have devoted the greater part of her married life to the job of child-raising and who will have invested a large part of herself in the children . |
| 10 | One reason must be the inevitable distancing of oneself from the intensity and nearness of the experience . |
| 11 | Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook . |
| 12 | He can , though , take a quick throw-in to himself in the '22 . |
| 13 | Another performer in One Over The Eight who took to Kenneth with the greatest of affection was Lance Percival , soon to make a national name for himself with the top TV satire show of the Sixties , That Was The Week That Was . |
| 14 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |
| 15 | The plants needed up to 3000 poles an acre to grow , a fairly intensive demand in itself on the exploitation of Wealden underwood . |
| 16 | Mrs Brocklebank had created a little nest for herself in the basement where she put her clothes and her big black handbag , from which she was only rarely and reluctantly parted , and where she tucked away any odds and ends it was better Brock at home did not see . |
| 17 | And although Edgar 's present listening has extended out past the Beach Boys , Credence Clearwater Revival and sundry American garage bands , The Stairs have made an inadvertent name for themselves as the most frighteningly authentic British beat combo in existence . |
| 18 | The third , from the history department , is more explicit and distinguishes between general reading matter which would make " browsing … a broadening experience in itself for the children " and teacher resources ( including teaching packs and reference books ) which would not only stimulate improved pedagogy in the new " evidence-based course " , but also permit teachers to foster pupils ' library use by example . |
| 19 | Role-taking — the mental placing of oneself in the other person 's position — is central to all forms of human communication . |
| 20 | However , it was not all one-sided and Hammer gave a good account of themselves in the first half , restricting Haslemere to one goal and going close themselves with long-range shots . |
| 21 | Too often after he had seen her , he felt restless , driven to correct this unhappy image of himself in the arms of another . |
| 22 | If you are a newcomer to the product , Symphony now provides a very good introduction to itself in the form of its online tutorial . |
| 23 | It is evident from this spate of new product launches that LIFFE sees an important European role for itself in the future . |
| 24 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
| 25 | From fundamental concepts to the most advanced techniques in use today , this seminar will give you a comprehensive understanding of the techniques you can use to put together a winning combination for yourself in the Information Age . |
| 26 | The cast and crew were situated in the picturesque summer tourist trap of St Ives where they virtually took over the comfortable olde-worlde Tregenna Castle Hotel , while Peckinpah rented a small cottage for himself on the moor . |
| 27 | Drinking Irish whisky by herself in the Ladies ' Cloakroom ? " |
| 28 | But also , in this reductio ad absurdum of masculine sexuality , men become redundant as the women threaten to perform phallic violence on themselves in the attempt to forestall male violence ( Genevora to the duellists ) : ‘ The first blow given betwixt you , sheathes these swords/In one anothers bosomes ’ ( 177 — 8 ) . |
| 29 | And I daresay she thinks she 's succeeded — done me out of my rights and fixed up a snug home for herself for the rest of her days ! |
| 30 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |