Example sentences of "as [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel asked herself as fitzAlan swung himself into the saddle behind her . |
| 2 | It was 3-0 just before half-time as Shearer threw himself at the ball . |
| 3 | He woke as Pete heaved himself from the bunk . |
| 4 | Revolution was now the buzzword , as pop allied itself with the youth riots that occurred throughout Europe and America in 1968 and 1969 ; although overtly concerned with inner space , pop went public with a confusing mixture of ideology and rhetoric , to which private concerns like self and sexuality were subordinated . |
| 5 | State-controlled television claimed on Nov. 18 that the opposition protest " had fizzled out as people dissociated themselves from the politics of disruption and violence " , although it acknowledged that stoning and tear-gassing in Lahore had " caused inconvenience " . |
| 6 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 7 | In time the Soviet bloc might begin to break up as nationalism reasserted itself among the satellite states . |
| 8 | ‘ Learn anything ? ’ asked his driver , as Spruce eased himself into the Datsun . |
| 9 | As humans liberate themselves from the constraints of nature ( scarce resources ) through technology , there comes about a domination of nature . |
| 10 | Twice , in the Miller 's Tale , we hear a cock crow , as Absolon presents himself at the " " shot-wyndowe " " of Alison 's bedroom ( 3357 , 3687 ) . |
| 11 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 12 | As Shylock says himself of the incident in Act 3 Scene 1 — line 28 : |
| 13 | Protesting , Geoffrey moved to one side as Bridget lowered herself to the ground . |