Example sentences of "of [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority . |
| 2 | As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before . |
| 3 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've just decided Pat can now take care of himself in the outside world . |
| 5 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |
| 6 | It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation . |
| 7 | It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer . |
| 8 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 9 | I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it . |
| 10 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 11 | Catching sight of herself in the long wall-mirror as she pulled a peach-coloured , button-necked nightshirt over her head , she found herself wondering what Guy was doing . |
| 12 | She sat up , splashing her face with water , catching a glimpse of herself in the steam-clouded mirror . |
| 13 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 14 | Filaments linked living beings with the seeds of themselves in the deep-down ooze . |
| 15 | I could take some colour photos of myself in the whole ensemble and maybe send Marcus one . |
| 16 | What did that do to me as a person , to my sense of myself in the Christian church ? |
| 17 | Role-taking — the mental placing of oneself in the other person 's position — is central to all forms of human communication . |