Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pn reflx] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made for himself a special balance with which he could measure the exact proportions of two metals in a mixture or alloy . |
| 2 | He noticed in himself a definite tendency to swagger as he walked around the camp that morning and he had tried consciously to suppress it . |
| 3 | One technique they used was that each individual crafted by himself a new conversation to help the writer of the episode . |
| 4 | Now , adrift from home and more vulnerable than ever , he discovered in himself a remarkable gift for inspiring friendship , a gift which never left him . |
| 5 | When I visited Bishopshalt school with my hon. Friend , I saw for myself the superb improvement in equipment and facilities that it has managed to achieve only shortly after attaining grant-maintained status . |
| 6 | And if Jesus incorporated in himself the double role of royal and priestly Messiah , he would indeed have been a figure worthy of such adherence . |
| 7 | In some frustrated way he felt in himself a deep affront at the prodigality and profuseness of life around him . |
| 8 | He saw inside himself a yellow-hammer flying in a startled flutter from out of the spikes and small blooms of a gorse-bush . |
| 9 | The addition of internal discriminations within the nervous system adds nothing relevant to this , unless the internal discriminations really possessed semantic properties , so that they somehow contained in themselves a real description of the world . |
| 10 | He declined the cigarette , he lit for himself a small cigar . |
| 11 | This proved in itself a major revolution , not only for the liturgy , but also for clerical life , even if the initial rather clumsy practice of massive concelebration by all priests present at any Mass itself expressed over-forcibly a clergy-laity divide and has later tended to give way — except for certain symbolic occasions ( e.g. of a bishop meeting with his diocesan clergy ) — to a pattern in which most supernumerary priests at a given Mass simply join with the lay congregation . |