Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see ourselves in this way is to gain a perspective rather than to advocate a policy , yet the relation of these two activities will inevitably remain in the background of our work . |
| 2 | I will now entertain suggestions as to how we can rid ourselves of this horrible dog menace . ’ |
| 3 | It had taken him a long time to adjust himself to this , but now it no longer irritated him , and he felt only pity for his wife . |
| 4 | Karadjordje 's attempt to impose himself on this structure by having himself declared ‘ Supreme Leader ’ created tensions which were never resolved during the nine years of his rebel regime . |
| 5 | If we should wish to tell you how every one behaved himself in this battle , it is a thing which could not be done , for all did so well that no man can relate their feats . |
| 6 | He would free himself from this enslavement , sweet as it was , as he had freed himself from Hilary . |
| 7 | As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly . |
| 8 | Later versions of Bacon can recognise that each star has an intrinsic property which manifests itself as this ’ constant ’ . |
| 9 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 10 | ‘ It has committed itself to this new dental hospital and we are looking to it to deliver . ’ |
| 11 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 12 | She was not going to start explaining herself to this arrogant Spaniard . |
| 13 | But it seems that I can not rid myself of this fear of running short of money . |
| 14 | Come on , Luke , you 're the boss , the one with all the answers , so explain how I can rid myself of this resentment I feel at having you foist yourself on me again ! ’ |
| 15 | Ludicrously over-equipped tourists might recognise themselves from this checklist : |
| 16 | Computer hardware companies , such as Apple and Compaq , found themselves in this position , as did their software counterparts Microsoft , Lotus and Ashton-Tate . |
| 17 | However , many difficulties immediately suggest themselves with this use of hoards . |
| 18 | A number of explanations suggest themselves for this strange impulse towards self-effacement in men who loved power , besides the official one that it served to maintain the standing of the native authorities in the eyes of the people . |
| 19 | Electrophysiological measures suggest themselves in this context but the problem of artefact , that is , of actual or potential eye movements producing an asymmetry in the EEG record ( Anderson , 1977 ) , would have to be circumvented . |
| 20 | Single carers who have given up work to care appear to be especially likely to find themselves in this situation . |
| 21 | It must be sad and hurtful for any parent to find themselves in this situation , because the vast majority of us have nothing but our children 's good at heart . |
| 22 | But Tom Poole 's cousins at Marshmills were not invited , and would in any case have been horrified to find themselves among this conclave of radicals . |
| 23 | Erm , I seem to find myself in this committee in a minority of one . |
| 24 | No Hellenistic poet or philosopher quoted it , although modern scholars have sometimes deluded themselves on this subject . |
| 25 | If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ . |
| 26 | Again , he tackles , in The Conquest of Happiness , the roots of human unhappiness , and sees them in an excessive introversion , in an excessive concern with the mechanisms of one 's own mind , and proposes various ways in which people can seek to extract themselves from this introverted obsession with their own mechanisms . |
| 27 | It was probably natural that the community they set up was so convinced of its own religious ideals that it thought toleration was harmful , but it was also natural that the strong-minded people who had committed themselves to this Atlantic crossing were not able to agree among themselves what was the true religion to which they were so committed . |
| 28 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 29 | The reader may have gathered by now that I place myself amongst this group . |
| 30 | The proof of this statement is so simple and elegant that it is the one piece of mathematics I have permitted myself in this book . |