Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 2 | It was at this period that I began to think about myself in the third person : Elizabeth is compassionate and considerate , she thinks how other people might feel . |
| 3 | The cardinals began to think of themselves as the hinges on which the universal Church turned , a comparison that had already been made by Pope Leo IX ( 1048 – 54 ) and by Cardinal Deusdedit in the 1080s . |
| 4 | Mairi complained , wishing that Ranald was still at home , and Ranald repeated the need to Hector ; who thought about it , and then started to come down himself with the youngsters . |
| 5 | She loved to walk by herself on the wild lonely moors , with her dog Keeper running by her side . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 7 | I had to live with myself for the rest of my life . |
| 8 | Domestic cats left to fend for themselves in the wild would still spend much of their time asleep , and conserve their energy for hunting at dawn and dusk . |
| 9 | She deliberately refused to look at herself in the strategically placed mirror . |