Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 2 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 3 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 4 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 5 | Lucy stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 6 | Shiona smiled to herself with an uneasy kind of pleasure . |
| 7 | ‘ And for the sake of the greater justice , ’ Yeremi murmured to himself as a personal amen . |
| 8 | ‘ It does n't apply , ’ Kingsley Amis remarked to himself as an adolescent Marxist on joining the army during the war and glancing around the barracks at his new comrades . |
| 9 | Gautama Buddha looked on himself as a doctor and discovered the correct diagnosis of man 's suffering . |
| 10 | Maggie stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 11 | Jane grimaced at herself in the mirror . |
| 12 | Googol talked to himself in a muffled manner or merely droned — hard to say which — whenever he was in space . |
| 13 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 14 | Old Donald chuckled in himself as the scene in the road came over him again . |
| 15 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 16 | Daisy gazed at herself in the mirror . |
| 17 | Every time Dyson looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , trying to imagine it was a television screen , his stomach and Jannie 's stomach turned over in unison . |
| 18 | Dickon plays by himself on the moors for hours , with the wild birds , and the sheep , and the other animals . ’ |
| 19 | On the question of money , Stan refers to himself as an entrepreneur . |
| 20 | The 460,000 Antwerpers think of themselves as the liveliest and most sociable of Belgians . |
| 21 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 22 | Jenny grimaced at herself in the glass . |
| 23 | She made Terry try it on , take it off , changed something else , and finally , at gone midnight , she had done all that she could do , and only then did she allow Terry to look at herself in the mirror . |
| 24 | Wexford chuckled to himself in the car . |
| 25 | The image Hitler portrayed of himself at the Nuremberg Rally was clearly consonant with the wide acceptance of the broad principles of legal discrimination and racial segregation , and with the satisfaction generally felt at the ending of the open brutality and pogrom-like anti Jewish disturbances of the vulgar anti-Semites . |
| 26 | Henry looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , as he crumpled up the other three pages of this latest missive and threw it in the swingbin . |
| 27 | Rhoda looked at herself in the mirror and said , ‘ I do n't see much wrong with me . |