Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years later we find Datini himself writing in the same vein to one of his partners in Spain , Cristofano di Bartolo , whom he wished to persuade to come home . |
| 2 | Users clock up points on the card itself according to how much money then spend . |
| 3 | Trade with them was forbidden , Thomson himself sailing with the fleet in an expedition which forced the colonies to submit ( 1650–5 ) . |
| 4 | However , the CNAA 's Model C would go further by uniting the functions of funding , academic planning and course validation under one body and envisages the possibility of the CNAA itself developing into that body . |
| 5 | Reprisal expulsions were ordered by Iraq on Sept. 21 , together with expulsions of US and Egyptian diplomatic personnel , both these countries themselves reciprocating by the end of the month . |
| 6 | The Ordnance Survey map , Sheet 117 in the Landranger series , shows Gresford itself standing on low hills about 30/40 metres high above the flood plains of the Dee estuary . |
| 7 | One only has to look at the woodcuts of Henri II 's entry into Rouen in 1550 — which Mary very probably witnessed — to get a breath-taking impression of the splendour of royal pageantry , with the king himself riding on a chariot of immense size and grandeur , accompanied by heavily caparisoned elephants . |
| 8 | ‘ I just could n't help laughing at the idea of the Devil himself sitting by my fire … |
| 9 | There should be personal service of a copy of the committal order on the contemnor by the court itself acting by one of its officers ( post , pp. 823G–H , 824F , 826F ) . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) There should be personal service of a copy of the committal order on the contemnor by the court itself acting by one of its officers , probably the tipstaff . |
| 11 | She wore her hair low on the nape of her neck , its weight giving fragility to the long , slender throat , the chignon itself gleaming like spun silver . |
| 12 | There was some fault on the phone here or else I was on the phone myself talking to Father Rooney about the Station . ’ |
| 13 | They come in sets of three or ten panels which can be arranged to any shape , the panels themselves revolving within the frames for even greater flexibility . |
| 14 | She moved on , overhearing talk of broccoli , of death in Kabul , of the phenomenal transatlantic success of Pete Petrie 's new novel , and there was Petrie himself talking to that little monster Ivan about his meeting with Norman Mailer , whooping with laughter , and hitting his own bald head with emphatic glee . |
| 15 | They may have lost their apostles , but they have the Spirit of the Lord himself remaining with them to teach and to inspire . |
| 16 | The recurrent theme was ‘ informality ’ or ‘ progressivism ’ : the same value-orientation which they saw the Authority itself espousing as the touchstone for good practice . |
| 17 | There were two major reports on the news , one showing mass rallies in Spain on the eve of the elections there , hundreds of thousands of ordinary people crammed into sports stadia to hear their party leaders , and the other on the miners ' ballot , with interviews among the miners who travelled in busloads from coalfields in Derbyshire and Lancashire for the Sheffield rally , interviews with Michael McGahey on the road about the vilification of Scargill , and the sight of Scargill himself appealing to the miners to vote for their union and against the National Coal Board . |
| 18 | It was a case do you see of the end itself changing in the course of a war . |
| 19 | It had at least seven governing bodies and watchdogs set over it : the Danzig Volkstag , the Danzig Senate , the Polish Commissioner General , the German Commissioner General , the Danzig Harbour Board , the League of Nations High Commissioner , the Council of the League of Nations at the High Court in the Hague and finally , the League itself sitting in Geneva . |
| 20 | The Easton Farm Park is a private working farm and museum , the original farm itself dating from the 1870s , when it was built as a model dairy farm by the Duke of Hamilton . |
| 21 | For , as we shall see , one of the most obvious effects of the myth of judicial independence on sentencing practice over the years has been the extent to which sentencers have been left to police themselves according to their own rules arid principles . |
| 22 | There are numerous examples of kings themselves leading in battle . |
| 23 | Yet this would be to miss the essence of the point Marx seeks to make : for bad treatment by employers of employees is open to correction by moral conviction whether that of the employers themselves acting in pursuance of enlightened self-interest , or that of legislatures acting to prevent abuses ; and the simple understanding would , by introducing the possibility of an extrinsic and corrective moral factor , threaten the inevitability of the class war . |
| 24 | Gerry Matthews took a deep breath , obviously imagining Cuchulain himself stalking down the steps of his tower , one hand on the war axe in his belt . |
| 25 | and records himself going for a piss but he does a bit , it cuts out when he 's actually pissing but he 's going on about now the biros are getting in the way of my knob here |
| 26 | Fourth , that such avant-garde formations , developing specific and distanced styles within the metropolis , at once reflect and compose kinds of consciousness and practice which become increasingly relevant to a social order itself developing in the directions of metropolitan and international significance beyond the nation-state and its provinces , and of a correspondingly high cultural mobility ( cf. the relations between the Paris of 1890–1930 and the New York of 1940–70 ) . |
| 27 | And beyond that , some fairytale kind of Hansel and Gretel cottage full of apple trees and roses and Alex herself stooping under a low lintel in a summery dress … |
| 28 | And then there were the noises … the rock of the mountain itself stirring from its immeasurable slumber ; the painful groaning of timbers carrying terrible burdens ; the distorted echoes of dripping water , and unseen men at their tasks … and the unexplained sounds which all miners know about but rarely speak of . |