Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South African domestic season thus finished with Eastern Province winning the Castle Cup ( four-Day and the night series ( 45 overs ) , and Free State the Nissan Shield ( 55 overs ) , Eastern Province were the beaten finalists in the latter competition and could thus justifiably regard themselves as South Africa 's champion team . |
| 2 | She 'd rather throw herself to the lions … |
| 3 | In order to do justice to the Jesus of history , one must effectively divest oneself of preconceptions — and especially of the preconceptions fostered by subsequent tradition . |
| 4 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 5 | Lord Wilberforce 's statement in Tameside , that the decision-maker should properly direct himself to the facts , provides a good example of one aspect of factual review which would allow the courts great latitude for substituting their view for that of the decision-maker . |
| 6 | Antoinette 's legs and feet twitched under the covers , would suddenly throw themselves from side to side . |
| 7 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 8 | The British Museum had better prepare itself for the worst . |
| 9 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 10 | If only he believed in her , could n't they together submerge themselves in the waters of Eden and be renewed for all time ? |
| 11 | The government does not merely confine itself to setting the ‘ rules of the game ’ , but is in a sense a participant in industrial relations to the extent that it chooses to intervene . |
| 12 | Because Vaughan could never entirely rid himself of envy of Minton and his way of life , he remained edgily critical of him . |
| 13 | ‘ I may have told Mrs Quatt that my position demands that I remain impartial , but one can not entirely prevent oneself from having human feelings and preferences ! ’ |
| 14 | " You 'd better send yourself to Hoggatt 's if you want to get there by eight-thirty . |
| 15 | And as they passed the rows upon rows of back yards , the grey washing on curious pulleys , the backs of hardboard dressing tables , the dust-bins and the coal sheds , it occurred to her to wonder why she should so suddenly feel herself to be peculiarly blessed , and a dreadful grief for all those without blessings took hold of her , and a terror at the singular nature of her escape . |
| 16 | That individuals prosecuted for sodomy did not necessarily identify themselves with the demonized sodomite of official discourse also lends credence to Foucault 's distinction between sodomy as a kind of behaviour , and homosexuality as a modern identity . |
| 17 | I can only see myself as a conversation piece , worth more as gossip than a fuck . |
| 18 | But Watson does not only see himself as publicity agent for his cause . |
| 19 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 20 | The centredness of the Hegelian dialectic Althusser presents as having an ‘ internal spiritual principle ’ which in its abstract simplicity can only realize itself as ideology ( Althusser 1969 : 103 ) . |
| 21 | But if only now is it God 's intention that they also be admitted to orders , women must necessarily see themselves as some kind of secondary citizens . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd better mind yourself with this fellow . |
| 23 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
| 24 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 25 | His book again shows locales being used as a resource in this process , ‘ the lads ’ using distinct rooms and spaces to literally separate themselves from school authorities , from the ‘ earoles ’ and from the much-despised Pakistanis and West Indians . |
| 26 | The world is littered with communities which believe that if they could only separate themselves from the world , they would escape the consequences of original sin . |
| 27 | It can only propagate itself by shedding the light of its sympathy literally ; by learning to love common people and common things , to feel common interests . |
| 28 | Derrida argues that though history is given the form of a totality by Hegel , his Aufhebung shows that in order to achieve that totality it must constantly transcend itself in a movement of excess . |
| 29 | We feel that this is too high , but past experience has shown that undergraduates will only apply themselves to subjects which they perceive as relevant to their future careers . |
| 30 | Moreover , the employer can only protect himself from activities by his employee which might reasonably affect the customer connection which has been built up . |