Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ran for her life , never seeing the figure detach itself from the wall , as she did in that far off childhood nightmare . |
| 2 | We also saw the ‘ Concubine 's Pool ’ where the Emperor 's favourite concubine used to bathe many centuries ago , and had a bath in the hot spring water ourselves before lunch . |
| 3 | If you are trying to lose weight limit yourself to the amounts necessary to attain your goal weight for the week ( we explain this in detail in Part Two ) . |
| 4 | Crosby , who still has no guarantees of landing the job on a permanent basis even after guiding the club to the FA Cup Final , was concerned to see uncertainty show itself during the 2–0 defeat at Grimsby . |
| 5 | Poor and shrunken though it was , no longer a power with an empire , half-way to being a third-world nation itself in material terms , the place was still an Atlantic civilisation . |
| 6 | Its importance is invariably recognised in the partnership agreement itself by the inclusion of a " just and faithful " clause ( Clause 13.02 ) . |
| 7 | Pumpkin seeds contain zinc which is necessary to help both internal and external skin heal itself after damage , either by parasites or bacteria — or even general wounds . |
| 8 | Dialectical Theology thus set out to reverse the approach , and in particular to emphasise , first , the ‘ Godness of God ’ ; second , the reality of the Word of God in Jesus Christ ; third , the impossibility of building theology itself on any other foundation . |
| 9 | After a brief return to London , he went to Manchester , and was soon in business building spinning machines for the cotton mills , from which he graduated to becoming a mill owner himself at New Lanark ( q.v. ) with a thousand employees . |
| 10 | Indeed , the basis of the new scheme had been proposed by the Law Society itself in a memorandum published in 1968 . |
| 11 | How many other twenty-two-year-olds stayed in on a Saturday night just listening to the rain hurl itself against the windows ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll tell you a Bible story meself In me own way . |
| 13 | Hillier , who 's since served a jail sentence himself in connection with the fiddle , reported him to the police . |
| 14 | By exerting gentle pressure on the zones of the foot the reflexologist is able to diagnose areas of malfunction in the body and then , by massage of the appropriate area of the foot , to help the body heal itself by improving the functioning of the nervous and circulatory systems . |
| 15 | Can a company that is the holding company of a small group avail itself of the exemption under ss 248 and 249 of the CA 1985 , and apply s 8(a) of the standard and not prepare either a cash flow statement or a consolidated cash flow statement , whether it prepares group accounts or not ? |
| 16 | I studied all over again those marvellous descriptions and illustrations , and you can perhaps understand my growing excitement at the notion that I might now actually undertake a motoring trip myself around that same part of the country . |
| 17 | One big cost in BEM system , wiring plant and rooms to the computer , can now be avoided by using the mains cabling itself as the data communication network . |
| 18 | The first concerns the structure of the snowball sample itself in which the 60 interviewees were evenly distributed between four ‘ representative ’ townships , 15 from each . |
| 19 | Turning now to the development work itself in general , the development work is going well . |
| 20 | He also cut the last line of the final song , ‘ Rest till the rosy morn 's uprise ’ , leaving the Fairy Queen herself at the centre of a choral lullaby . |
| 21 | ( op. at. : 6 ) Art sessions took place in the Art Room itself at the far end of the school , and Drama work happened in the hall . |
| 22 | She 'd wondered who 'd handle that side of it somehow she could n't imagine the night manager himself with a housekeeping trolley piled high with sheets and towels . |
| 23 | I mean you got to get yourself in there round the back tuck yourself in all your body . |
| 24 | Kaye made the gorgeous patchwork bedspread herself from oddments of Liberty and Thai silk . |
| 25 | Watching the old gentleman turn himself into a stripling and seeing the irrepressible signs of affection between George and Catherine , he envied them deeply . |
| 26 | Have you ever created a conflict situation yourself with someone you consider responsible for hurting you in some way , perhaps even years before ? |
| 27 | ALTERNATIVELY YOU CAN STRETCH THE PAPER OF YOUR CHOICE AND COLOUR IT YOURSELF WITH A LIGHTFAST PAINT . |
| 28 | Sybase claims to have launched the client/server market itself with the release of its Open SQL Server and Client products in 1987 : now it sees itself launching a further market , enterprise client/server , mainly for mainframe customers downsizing to new platforms , as opposed to the departmental ( and usually Unix or VAX/VMS ) first generation of SQL-based database system . |
| 29 | He could see a figure within the Lift detach itself from the group and glance quickly in his direction . |
| 30 | Television sets up an obsessive acting-out of desire , which the spectator tries to assuage by consuming the television text itself in its unique promise . |