Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In relation to the Irish worker , he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland , thus strengthening their domination over himself . |
| 2 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 3 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 4 | In this country we call it Medau Breathing Movement , and by ‘ breathing movement ’ we mean internal movement of the trunk , which starts with the rising and falling of the diaphragm and then communicates itself to the abdominal walls , pelvic floor , the whole back and as far as the collar bone . |
| 5 | Very often a student creates his first phrase and then finds himself at a loss . |
| 6 | Niki eats up a few places and then finds himself at the back of a bunch of five cars behind Prost , who is running second . |
| 7 | The ambiguity of an elegy which laments the loss of constancy in relations between household and patron , and yet offers itself in the public market-place as a suit for favour , aptly characterizes the circumstances of Emilia Lanier 's life . |
| 8 | The best criticism is that which is both amusing and poetic ; not a cold , mathematical criticism which , on the pretext of explaining everything , has neither love nor hate , and voluntarily strips itself of every shred of temperament . |