Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 2 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 3 | Many of the people are obliged to wear wet handkerchiefs to protect themselves from the strong fumes of sulphur . ’ |
| 4 | The way was thereby opened for English merchants to establish themselves in the island , and William Bolton came to Madeira as an agent for Robert Heysham of London , who had a brother in Barbados to whom Bolton shipped a large quantity of wine . |
| 5 | This is necessarily caused by the fact that the intrinsic differences between the services provided in different organizations reflect themselves in the respective budgets . |
| 6 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 7 | Further attempts at fostering were not tried , and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael 's life . |
| 8 | Lomnitz has shown how squatters manipulate social networks to establish themselves in the city ( Lomnitz 1977 ) . |
| 9 | The Scottish Jacobites withdrew themselves from the Scottish Convention which met on 14 March 1689 , and as a result the settlement north of the border was worked out predominantly by Whigs . |
| 10 | Here these Cornish sappers dedicated themselves to the work they knew best , digging defensive trenches and building parapets as well as blowing up houses blocking the range of the gunnery . |
| 11 | One can easily understand the ferocity with which the more creative British filmmakers positioned themselves against the new development . |
| 12 | Raising up the wooden clouds to hide himself from the public gaze , he hurried trembling down the ladder and hid in the dark cart , under his quilt . |
| 13 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 14 | So after Doctor Who Carole Ann Ford deliberately immersed herself in theatrical parts to free herself from the stigma of Television , emerging only after a year to play the radically different role of a prostitute in ITV 's new Public Eye series . |
| 15 | Even allowing Finnis his large claim that private property is a general requirement of justice , it must be evident that a remarkably wide range of possible determinations present themselves to the legislator . |
| 16 | And it will be an exclusivist world in which the rich countries insulate themselves from the pressure of migration , and the threat of terrorism . |
| 17 | Against her will her breasts swelled , hardened nipples forcing themselves against the cotton . |
| 18 | Nietzsche was not present , but whereas the premiere of Tristan in 1865 had not prompted any discernible reaction in him , on this occasion he took a much livelier interest and during the following months familiarized himself with the work through the score . |
| 19 | Overweight male execs squeezing themselves behind the wheel of their Mercs ; they died of heart attacks . |
| 20 | Mitzi was immediately conscious of pain and seconds later of the table upturning and its entire contents spreading themselves across the parquet . |
| 21 | He encouraged Sir Warren Fisher , the permanent secretary of the Treasury , and other senior civil servants to busy themselves with the drawing up of constitutional memoranda which came near to being ultimata . |
| 22 | Mansfield thought out her stories first , made brief notes to remind herself of the details , of the change that was to take place , and then wrote . |
| 23 | Two vaguely serpentine exters detached themselves from the group . |
| 24 | Members of most non-Western societies regard themselves as the most superior form of being , in possession of the most desirable qualities . |
| 25 | Self-worth motivated children protect themselves from the risk of failure on a high status task ; they maintain that they could succeed , but see no point in making the effort . |
| 26 | Its greatest drawback is that it requires human beings to adapt themselves to the production process , and in most Western countries , there has been a reaction against this requirement . |
| 27 | At the end of the third day , a woman performs complicated ritual purificatory acts to cleanse herself of the pollution of menstrual blood . |
| 28 | It accuses " particular producer groups " of " manipulating domestic environmental policies to benefit themselves at the expense of both the rest of the economy and ultimately even the environment " . |
| 29 | Taking a few deep breaths to prepare himself for the encounter , Ybreska stepped into the middle of the road to meet his contact . |
| 30 | " They may be familiar with the paintings of Whistler , or perhaps with Whistler 's statement that when evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry , as with a veil , and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky , and the tall chimneys become campanili , and the warehouses are palaces in the night , and the whole city hangs in the heavens , and fairyland is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home , and Nature , who , for once , has sung in tune , sings her exquisite song to the artist alone , her son and her master — her son , in that he loves her , her master in that he knows her ? " … shall I read you that deposition again , Mrs James ? " |