Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [verb] [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 | I chase each of the monks and nuns round the canopy until all have been similarly consumed and thrown themselves over the battlements ; for who can bear to lose face ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There was no other explanation ; she 'd gone and landed herself in the sole company of a madman . |
| 7 | I spoke to her , telling her to do as we had earlier discussed and detach herself from the scene so that she could see it and tell me about it but could not feel any distress , whether mental , physical or emotional . |
| 8 | De Gaulle was perceived and perceived himself as the incarnation of both revolution and restoration . |