Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little evidence about Ermentrude herself at the time of the marriage . |
| 2 | Throughout the war ( except during the worst days of the blitz ) the Gallup Poll had been assessing the popularity of the government , and of Churchill himself as Prime Minister . |
| 3 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 4 | There was only one game of billiards itself in progress , every other table rattling to the scatter of the reds and colours of snooker . |
| 5 | The Count of Flanders , Louis de Mâle , had only one child , his daughter Margaret , whose marriage was eagerly sought by both protagonists in the war , for with her went not only the County of Flanders itself with its substantial revenues but also Artois , Nevers , Rethel and the County of Burgundy . |
| 6 | He designed a series of posters including one of Branson himself under the caption ‘ No One is Innocent ’ , an another bearing a swastika made of cannabis leaves , the Virgin logo and what had become a Sex Pistols ' slogan , ‘ Never trust a hippie ’ . |
| 7 | Sitting at peace with his ailing woman , tenderly responsive , he imagined his mouth curved in a mysterious smile ‘ like that of Rembrandt himself in his self-portrait in which Saskia is sitting on his knee and he has a glass of wine in his hand . ’ |
| 8 | Jameson seems to object to the fall of modernism and the decline of a critical aesthetic , and fails to learn from the quite genuine failure of modernism itself with regard to its popular acceptability . |
| 9 | This in turn opens up some fascinating questions about the role of consciousness itself in memory and perception . |
| 10 | My father is an educated man , and he passed a lot of what he already knew on to me , as well as doing a fair bit of study himself into areas he did n't know all that much about just so that he could teach me . |
| 11 | The Minister had planned a speech of thanks himself during a visit to Stoke Mandeville Hospital … but Adis Avdic stole his thunder . |
| 12 | Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence . |
| 13 | These signs , it must be said , largely reflect the changing strategies and priorities of management itself in coming to recognise that people have their personal plans and needs . |
| 14 | This additional property , Minsky believes , could have a functional or evolutionary explanation , of the sort suggested for the property of modularity itself by Simon , in that the ‘ conscious ’ supreme organizing module would ipso facto be in a position to ‘ debug ’ or repair the connections of the lower modules amongst themselves or to itself . |
| 15 | His total of eight stolen bases in the A's 4-1 series victory was a post-season record , he scored eight runs in total and even managed a couple of homers himself in Saturday 's 6-5 win in the SkyDome . |
| 16 | As we said in the Introduction , this is a little artificial , but you may well have to do this kind of work yourself at some time . |
| 17 | My speculations were cut short by the appearance of Karen herself at my elbow . |
| 18 | Most extraordinary of all , in 1942 a despairing Stalin even offered to trade the Ukraine , Belorussia and parts of Russia itself for peace . |
| 19 | Often , but by no means invariably , the medreses involved were imperial foundations , such as the medrese of Suleyman 's mother , Hafsa Sultan , in Manisa ( 929/1523 ) ; the medreses of Suleyman himself in Rhodes ( 956/1549 ) and Damascus ( 973/1566 ) ; and that of Selim II on the newly-conquered island of Cyprus ( 978–9/1570–1 ) . |
| 20 | It is obvious that her cares very deeply about the theatre and acting , from the teaching of drama itself to the condition of theatre countrywide . |
| 21 | Broadly speaking , therefore , these two terms help us to define class boundaries and to see how they are sustained ( or not ) by the action of classes themselves within an economic system . |
| 22 | Gide 's narrative of a development from the desire for self-redemption in the space of the other , through the loss of self at the ecstatic height of this existential quest , to the unresolved sense of desire itself as a kind of loss , is amenable to a similar analysis ; in Gide 's case image and fantasy do indeed figure transgressively on the borders of history and the unconscious . |
| 23 | Ironically , the society is having to fight against the forces of nature itself in the bid to stop the reedbed being swallowed by fast-encroaching willows and scrub which would destroy much of the area 's significance . |
| 24 | MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell . |
| 25 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 26 | But support for the Americans came from a wider section of the English people than the intellectuals : the presence of discharged and wounded soldiers created a loathing of war itself on humanitarian grounds . |
| 27 | To shift , as I have done in this consideration of Love 's Cure , trom the transvestite to certain wider issues of desire , the ‘ nature ’ of masculinity , sexual jealousy , and the homoerotic , is only to follow one trajectory of transvestism itself in this period : in appropriating , inverting , and substituting for masculinity , the female transvestite inevitably put masculinity itself — and sexual difference more generally — under scrutiny . |
| 28 | This ranged from the reproducibility of the film which is now telescoped through television and video ; to the opera or concert through the increased availability of gramophone recordings from the 1920s ; and to the reproduction of paintings themselves through photographic means in books , magazines , and television . |
| 29 | The process of signification is what accomplishes the task of the myth ; it subverts simple denotation through its wider connotation , it naturalizes culture as the given order of the day , and it utilizes the ambiguities and tendencies of the process of signification itself in order to effect its apparent closures . |
| 30 | ( Rom 8 ) Not only are there the promises of Jesus himself on which to base this expectation but there is the evidence of the resurrection . |