Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had brought herself a new swimsuit but after she had changed she 'd stared critically at herself in the mirror in the changing-room . |
| 2 | At first , as he worked , he had reminisced pleasantly to himself about the smells and the texture of paper and ink , and about the pleasure of opening a new roll of papyrus , laid out as far as there was need on soft leather spread over a wooden writing desk ; then mixing the ink powder with water , and the nervous moment of dipping the brush to make the first signs — to load the brush just so , in order that the ink would be absorbed by the paper before it could run down it . |
| 3 | Innocent was the first pope to proclaim publicly that he was the vicar of Christ — a title that had been used previously of themselves by the Byzantine emperors and by the Emperor Henry III ( d. 1056 ) . |
| 4 | She had given up concerning herself with the agent of the Scarabae . |
| 5 | Although the sociologists and anthropologists are too polite to mention it , social codes in general including in these changing times whichever one was brought up in oneself by the preceding generation , can be seen from a sufficient distance to have been in large part shaped by gross delusions about the cosmos and about man , and by a brutal ignorance of everyone outside one 's own people , sex and class . |
| 6 | But she was not taken out of herself by the sweeping cosmic changes of light and colour . |