Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He sat and squinted through watering eyes at a coloured , enlarged picture of himself on the wall ahead of him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One reason must be the inevitable distancing of oneself from the intensity and nearness of the experience . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Role-taking — the mental placing of oneself in the other person 's position — is central to all forms of human communication . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Too often after he had seen her , he felt restless , driven to correct this unhappy image of himself in the arms of another . |
| 10 | he was locked deep in thought , his way of moving isolating , crisp , a steady manoeuvre of himself against the elements . |
| 11 | Kylie and a lifesize cardboard cutout of herself at the London launch of her debut album , simply titled Kylie . |
| 12 | This means that a man sacrifices every other aspect of himself to the job and forgets his other roles , such as father , son , brother , friend and lover , and also forgets that in his teens , perhaps , he liked playing the piano , going to football matches , singing in the choir and writing short stories . |
| 13 | Steinmark was still absent and he , Nordern , was doing two men 's work which annoyed him , particularly as he wanted to give the best possible impression of himself during the next few weeks . |
| 14 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , but under protest , ’ Theda said , a fleeting vision of herself in the peach gown passing through her mind , together with a swift question as to how Benedict would think she looked in it . |