Example sentences of "of [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish selectors , however , rated his prime potential value to Scotland as a prop and the genial giant is in the process of seeking to establish himself in the tighthead position . |
| 2 | At no time during his life did Vincent show any sign of wanting to involve himself in the socialist movements of his day . |
| 3 | To schematise , the British working class has not been ready to run the risks of attempting to constitute itself as the ruling class , of putting forward concrete proposals for working class control over industry and finance and fighting seriously to achieve them . |
| 4 | ‘ Thank God that I am not answerable to any higher authority ; but were I in the position of having to justify myself before the great British public , even I would find it difficult to defend your priorities . ’ |
| 5 | Right , right , would you like to sort of start getting yourselves into the other room . |
| 6 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 7 | The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another . |
| 8 | A Some of these sucking type catfish have this habit of trying to attach themselves onto the sides of other fish . |