Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This perversion arises when a conscious creature becomes more interested in itself than in God … the sin of pride ’ ; compare Melkor in the music of the Ainur seeking ‘ to increase the power and glory of the part assigned to himself ’ . |
| 2 | Turning to leave he saw a jiffy-bag of formidable bulk addressed to himself in Sixsmith 's tremulous hand . |
| 3 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 4 | In 1878 The Royal Agricultural Society reported in their journal : ‘ This farm , in fact , has all the requisites of a prize farm , and we had therefore very great pleasure in awarding First Prize ( in all England ) to Mr Long who will , we feel certain , consider it a recognition of the untiring industry shown by himself and his wife in the management of this pretty little farm … the arable land is cultivated like a garden , being wonderfully free from weeds . |
| 5 | MY gratitude to the people of Liverpool for the wonderful reception and kindness shown to myself and my old comrades . |
| 6 | No praise is high enough for their efforts and the kindness shown to myself and my wife . |
| 7 | The subtle mind used against itself by the simple mind . |
| 8 | Lexandro 's own schismed mind dreamed of himself ennobled . |
| 9 | The results were momentous ; a British force landed by itself , defeated the nationalists and began an occupation which was to last seventy years . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Where a lessor is proceeding , by action or otherwise , to enforce such a right of re-entry or forfeiture , the lessee may , in the lessor 's action , if any , or in any action brought by himself , apply to the court for relief , and the court may grant or refuse relief , as the court , having regard to the proceedings and conduct of the parties under the foregoing provisions of this section , and to all the other circumstances , thinks fit ; and in case of relief may grant it on such terms , if any , as to costs , expenses , damages , compensation , penalty , or otherwise , including the granting of an injunction to restrain any like breach in the future , as the court , in the circumstances of each case , thinks fit . |
| 11 | Yeah , I think we should minute erm our appreciation of the action taken by yourself and the clerk in resolving this matter , because we did approve work erm and it became obvious after work was commenced that there was additional work that needed to be got on with |
| 12 | Right from its inception NEP carried within itself the germs of its own fatal illness , whether one looks at its fiscal organization or the economic persona ( like these Nepmen ) which it soon evoked , or in many cases re-awakened . |
| 13 | Hale justified the marital rape exemption in the following terms : ‘ The husband can not be guilty of rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife , for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife has given up herself in this kind unto her husband , which she can not retract . ’ |
| 14 | Indeed so popular has it become that its designer has achieved the ultimate scientific accolade of eponymy ( having a phenomenon , method or piece of equipment named after oneself ) , for the apparatus is known as the ‘ morris water maze ’ ( Figure 9.5 ) and within the last few years has virtually replaced the skinner box as necessary equipment for all psychology labs . |
| 15 | And each had a second named after themselves . |
| 16 | 1986 ) , the keeping of household pets where a child has asthma ( Franklin and Kahn , 1987 ) child labour in Nigeria ( Asogwa , 1986 ) and the mistaken diagnoses of abuse seen in themselves as a form of abuse ( Kirschner and Stein , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | The relationship was taken a stage further in the following year , when the Prime Warden accepted for himself and his successors the office of Patron of the School . |
| 18 | That night , because he could see himself , Boy thought about himself all night long . |
| 19 | The incident had led to the dismissal of Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III in June , after one of the victims of the affair , Navy Lt. Paula Coughlin , had publicly described the ordeal experienced by herself and at least 25 of her female colleagues at the hands of drunken male aviators . |
| 20 | ‘ The Committee struck into himself when he was second to On The Other Hand , ’ Homer told me . |
| 21 | Lord Brougham believed of Liverpool that : ‘ No minister ever passed his time with so little ill-will directed against himself , or had so much forbearance shown him upon all occasions . ’ |
| 22 | You have heard in response to a direct question put by yourself to an expert for North Yorkshire County Council , that he regarded the village of Flaxton as making a contribution to the historic setting of York , that it had a greenbelt function . |
| 23 | This is surely a general result , that if the management left to itself would act in a socially optimal way along the lines represented in ( 4.1 ) , it is fatuous , indeed counterproductive , to constrain it . |
| 24 | Should you be successful in raising the required funding for your projects , then you will require specialist advice ( particularly when negotiating with the funding source ) on the financial structure of the new company , both in terms of gearing and should venture capitalists be involved , on the proportion of dilution of the equity stake held by yourselves as founder directors . |
| 25 | The story that is told is a story which never ends — and which risks losing shape and momentum — because it is a story told of himself by a living author , an author who has yet to end , whose isolate 's imaginative fury lives on to tell another tale , some more of his own story . |
| 26 | The Maggot referred to himself as a ‘ good old country boy ’ which description provoked Ellen , who could not stand the sight of him , to comment that John Maggovertski was to country what the serpent was to Eden . |
| 27 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 28 | He always understood that the papal decree imposed on himself an absolute personal obligation of obedience , but it did not give him a general responsibility for promoting the principle , or for enforcing the obedience of others . |
| 29 | You know I do n't like attention drawn to myself . ’ |
| 30 | The boy seemed in pain , his lips drawn back from his teeth in what was almost a snarl , his whole body hunched into itself , as if something ate at him from within . |