Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In this context the relationship of the persuader to the patient — for example , spouse , parents or religious adviser — will be important , because some relationships more readily lend themselves to overbearing the patient 's independent will than do others .
2 As Twoflower watched , one of the shapes far above detached itself from the roof and began to grow larger …
3 The previous fifty years had provided so many alternative and revolutionary styles , that architects and clients alike often found themselves in a quandry as to which to go for .
4 Nichetti once again casts himself as the noble little guy in a bewildering universe — more Buster Keaton than Woody Allen — this time dubbing sound effects on to animated features which gradually stray from their screens and absorb his entire body .
5 In the 1933 elections the socialists no longer associated themselves with the divided fractions of the middle class republican government , hoping to rally a broad following independently .
6 West German attention remained centred on the affairs of Central Europe — nor had the Germans either completely liberated themselves from or lived down their own past .
7 I 'm sorry to say but I think that we 're talking about this education day at the beginning of October and I mean god knows we 've known this is coming for , it 's almost as if we 've got to the brink of , you know like lemmings just about to throw ourselves off the cliff and we do n't know why we 're going to do it .
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