Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lacan shows how the recognition of ourselves in the image of the face is based on a misrecognition , since we perceive the face as our own when in fact it is produced in the image outside ourselves . |
| 2 | I did not understand German , and was not interested in the photograph of myself at the top , but bottom left , was a small black-and-white snapshot of Joan and the children . |
| 3 | Drinks with strange women after the show fitted well into the fantasy of himself as the big West End star that the night 's performance had engendered . |
| 4 | Is not this how we see God revealed in the record of Himself in the Bible ? |
| 5 | As the quotations above show , there is a recurrent recognition by the great minds of the Christian faith that we can not separate the knowledge of ourselves from the knowledge of God . |
| 6 | For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money . |
| 7 | We leave the second part to the sorceress who 's the really strong character in the whole play to spoil this love match and she sends the spirit of herself in the form of the God Mercury to deceive Anaeas into saying he 's got to go away , so he goes and tells Dido he must leave and of course Dido 's heartbroken and she commits suicide and of course this is celebrated with the famous lament at the end of the opera . |
| 8 | It was n't until the weekend that he started to pine for some entertainment other than the sight of himself in the bathroom mirror . |
| 9 | At the sight of herself in the mirror , an image of herself from so long ago , all the shock came back , taking her by surprise . |