Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents can be greatly helped if they have received early information and guidance on the needs of children with no sight or defective vision , and in addition the chance to see for themselves educational provision as well as receiving information about potential placements . |
| 2 | Plasmids do not construct for themselves special protein coats to enable them to survive outside their host cells , but can be transmitted from one bacterial cell to another if those cells come into contact . |
| 3 | They began to acquire for themselves important political positions , especially in Parliament , and the ‘ West India lobby ’ became a powerful political force ( Fryer , 1984 , pp. 40–50 ) . |
| 4 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 5 | Now she could fabricate for herself rich and happy memories . |
| 6 | Remove restrictions on insurers and let people buy for themselves inexpensive insurance . |
| 7 | But if she is cleansed of her discharge , she shall count for herself seven days , and after that she shall be clean . |
| 8 | Giving it would deprive the delivery driver of the opportunity to discover for himself some of the delightful scenery on his patch . |
| 9 | However , you are bound to discover for yourself many species that I have not had space to describe , as it is always interesting to experiment for yourself . |
| 10 | Had she gold , poor woman , so to entrap for herself that monstrous lump of selfishness ? |
| 11 | Ptah embodied within himself eight other Ptah 's , who had the names of other gods , amongst which Atum was his thought , Horus his heart and Thoth his tongue . |
| 12 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |
| 13 | Sequence is problematic at best , but the novel incorporates within itself sceptical references to alternative means of representation through official military history , collage and a film . |
| 14 | And yet he had come to himself unaided , clambered to his feet without even the support of a fence to lean on , and made his way some two hundred yards towards the single light of the curator 's open door . |
| 15 | Peter Chapple-Hyam , his trainer , says that Rodrigo de Triano , winner of the Middle Park Stakes , has only really come to himself this week . |
| 16 | Er without being an actuary I say to myself that 's a pretty magical thing you 've done and then it causes you to start looking at the monetary background of all of that an and again I I 'm , I 'm speaking here largely on what actuarial advice we are beginning to receive . |
| 17 | I do n't think of myself that way of course , but I enjoy all the attention . |
| 18 | ‘ He never thinks of himself these days . |
| 19 | Makes no effort at all to work with me , just thinks of herself all the time . |
| 20 | Of course , had the guilds and fraternities included a handling charge in their reckoning they might have attracted an income allowing them the freedom to purchase for themselves those ‘ extras ’ now being clamoured for . |
| 21 | Indeed , analysis is almost superfluous , since if any poems can speak for themselves these can . |
| 22 | Their structure was by no means on a sound footing by the 1560 's however , and heeding what must have been glowing reports from England , and having seen for themselves good samples of the ore , they were probably quite eager to invest in the English adventure . |
| 23 | PS : What on earth do you do with yourself these days ? |
| 24 | Well I speak to myself most of the time anyway . |
| 25 | Do hereby adopt , enact , and give to ourselves this Constitution . |
| 26 | If , if you look in your books page one seven seven , you 'll see a beautifully illustrated instruction on how to do it , which you can refer to yourself this evening or later on in the course if you forget but I 'm now gon na show you how to do one as well , you , if you want to know it 's there for you to look up you take the bandage and fold it into your narrow fold band and put it round your leg , you 've got something to tie a reef knot round , okay ? if you know how to do a reef knot already fine , just do it , if you do n't , follow instructions . |
| 27 | In the pause I studied by myself first at home , then at my aunt 's home at Salisbury . |
| 28 | ‘ You can see for yourself these days , ’ explains Harry , ‘ just how well the wool carpets , of 80 pc wool and 20 nylon , are constructed compared to the synthetics . |
| 29 | Crime and Punishment is a ghostly book in which all three — murderer , detective , reader — tiptoe mentally round dubitable presences and absences , and create between themselves strange large silences . |
| 30 | In another way , however , it can be seen as responsibly encouraging readers to challenge for themselves cultural codes and established patterns of thought , including some of those which make contemporary history so intractable . |