Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , to the extent that some doctors , especially those recently trained , see themselves as medical scientists solving problems and dispensing cures , rather than fundamentally caring for their patients , they may , in fact , be guilty of distancing themselves from , if not abandoning , their dying patients . |
| 2 | Christians , especially , should be cautious about allowing themselves to be influenced by people who do not have the same life goals . |
| 3 | In the most serious cases , a field man will always be concerned with covering himself in deciding whether or not to take a formal sample . |
| 4 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 5 | But two things have happened : schools must now be uncertain in comparing themselves with each other because the Education ( Schools ) Act 1992 has created dilemmas about the mediation of inspectors ' and advisers ' reports . |
| 6 | Self-awareness even in an absolutely minimal form , is not merely to recognise oneself , but to be aware of recognising oneself as oneself , with much of what that implies . |
| 7 | He had a fraction of a second to be surprised at finding himself in the middle of all this traffic , when up there , that was his road , up there , that 's where he should have been by now . |