Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from the same haunts as the tarsier that the original " Wild Man of Borneo " — the orangutan , or " man of the forest " — was to reveal himself : a creature so vulnerable , so resonant with human emotion , that we could not fail to see ourselves in him . |
| 2 | Landing ourselves on them . |
| 3 | One common reply to the first two sceptical arguments is to say that we have no reason to worry ourselves about them . |
| 4 | We can not rid ourselves of it . |
| 5 | We 've committed ourselves to it . |
| 6 | It contradicts and condemns us in our pride , our self-sufficiency , our ethics , our politics , and our religion which , far from being our point of closest access to God , is the house we build in order to hide ourselves from him , to convince ourselves that we have him in our control . |
| 7 | Grief was the climate in which he worked and he had inured himself to it . |
| 8 | ‘ It means ‘ he ground himself into me ’ , as it says in the book I bought at the airport . ’ |
| 9 | He was paving the way to amusing himself with me in the future when Mme Chaillot was out of town . |
| 10 | Trent had already warned his charter party back to the catamaran , keeping himself between them and the big fish . |
| 11 | Turning from the window , she gazed on the face of her husband , a kind face and not unattractive , with its straight features and good skin , and the unruly mop of hair that tumbled over his forehead ; he stirred in her arms , whimpering like a child , and pressing himself against her . |
| 12 | Richardson was extraordinarly charismatic , dressed in very tight trousers and thigh-length boots — which may have had something to do with my infatuation — and he characterised Richard as a man of great vanity , constantly picking up a mirror and checking himself in it . |
| 13 | It is quite enough for me to try to grasp the way in which God has disclosed himself to us . |
| 14 | On several occasions I witnessed his lordship make attempts to draw M. Dupont aside for some private conversation , only for Mr Lewis smilingly to impose himself upon them with some remark like : ‘ Pardon me , gentlemen , but there 's something that 's been greatly puzzling me , ’ so that his lordship soon found himself having to listen to some more of Mr Lewis 's jovial anecdotes . |
| 15 | No longer would he pound around the obstacle course set out by Newton and himself : there was a life he could live which took its time , strolled through weeks as if they were single mornings , allowed the world to come to him instead of himself for ever launching himself on it as if in unarmed combat . |
| 16 | who lives himself through you . |
| 17 | He has committed himself to us . |
| 18 | I caught a glimpse of my assailant , of his ragged and ferocious face , as he paused before hurling himself at me . |
| 19 | When it is done , he will rid himself of us both . |
| 20 | SECRET talks in London between the African National Congress and a group of liberal Afrikaners , including President FW de Klerk 's brother , ended yesterday with the ANC playing down the significance of the event and President de Klerk dissociating himself from it . |
| 21 | Althusser shared Sartre 's opposition to Stalinism 's emphasis on economism and technical determinism , dissociating himself from it not through an assertion of individual agency but through a reformulation of the Marxist thesis of determination by economic relations — redefined as a causal rather than a historical relation . |
| 22 | He clenched himself against them , tightening himself , determined not to be taken unawares . |
| 23 | He bristled , suddenly angered that she could think this of him , after all he had done to purify himself for her . |
| 24 | He took pity on her , driving himself inside her so deeply , her virginity causing him only momentary check . |
| 25 | Of course , this does n't mean that if a man exposes himself to you , you must be repressing that urge within yourself . |
| 26 | Then , seating himself beside her , he spoke quietly but with a curious sense of urgency . |
| 27 | Plummer smiled a predatory smile and crossed to the sofa , seating himself beside her . |
| 28 | Guido was seating himself opposite her again . |
| 29 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 30 | He dedicated himself to me . |