Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally I declared that we had no Chiefs only innumerable Indians ; that meetings and even pow-wows were not found necessary ; that communication was by smoke-signal , both between ourselves of the load-bearers form Cubs to Grandfathers/mothers ; and our pipes of peace the traditional Taylor soup and bread and cheese . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't talk about this , ’ says Mr Jarvis , 50 , who this week opened with his wife Rosalind Ayres in Alan Ayckbourn 's Just Between Ourselves at the Greenwich Theatre , south London . |
| 3 | We also reveal much about ourselves by the way we dress and by our hair styles . |
| 4 | Just create a problem for ourselves at the moment . |
| 5 | We can hear that for ourselves in the records that have been issued of Karajan rehearsing the late Mozart symphonies or the Finale of Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony . |
| 6 | ‘ When we decided to start Headline , we felt that we had to identify a position for ourselves in the market , to persuade agents to bring their authors to us , authors to come to us , booksellers to support us . |
| 7 | And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future . |
| 8 | He 'll have it out himself with the Venetians . ’ |
| 9 | He then produced the £15 and counted it out himself on the corner of the table , not letting the chairman or anyone else do so . |
| 10 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 11 | Allen could look after himself in the forest . |
| 12 | After all , Italian midfields have been able to look after themselves over the years . |
| 13 | The key to being naturally beautiful is looking after yourself on the inside as well as the outside and that means eating healthily . |
| 14 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 15 | Has he learned or discovered anything about himself during the past four years ? |
| 16 | Quiet , never shouting about himself to the world . |
| 17 | Could he give them a few facts about himself for the company 's press release ? |
| 18 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 19 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 20 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 21 | As he was doing that , he saw the paragraph about himself in The Stage and planted his shoe over it . |
| 22 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 23 | Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time . |
| 24 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 25 | This was because human beings worked things out in their minds in terms of concepts and moral rules , and these concepts and rules were not things the individual made for himself on the spur of the moment . |
| 26 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 27 | The cast and crew were situated in the picturesque summer tourist trap of St Ives where they virtually took over the comfortable olde-worlde Tregenna Castle Hotel , while Peckinpah rented a small cottage for himself on the moor . |
| 28 | Each young gentleman was provided with his own chamber-pot , which he was expected to empty for himself on the common midden , situated behind the houses . |
| 29 | After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression . |
| 30 | He would , for instance , secretly buy 30,000 of a stock for himself on the account . |