Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This network of friendship and patronage became one of the less objectionable instruments of nineteenth-century electoral corruption and the instrument with which the small man met and defended himself against the state . |
| 2 | But she did not answer him , only bent and lowered herself into the water , hissing as the coldness burned into the wound , a faint moan escaping through her gritted teeth as she began to wash . |
| 3 | For all his wayward impulses and the much documented erraticism of his '80s career , this contradictory figure has — through cunning , imagination and sheer force of will — constantly reassessed and reasserted himself as the most focused member of the old guard . |
| 4 | In their remarkable study , Stallybrass and White argue that ‘ the bourgeois subject continuously defined and re-defined itself through the exclusion of what it marked out as ‘ low' ’ — as dirty , repulsive , noisy , contaminating . |
| 5 | De Gaulle was perceived and perceived himself as the incarnation of both revolution and restoration . |