Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor would Nevton any better understand that on a deeper level he had tried to force Hope into himself or force himself in Hope and , despite initial success , discovered a fierce resistance . |
| 2 | Bazilio Olara Okello , who led the military coup which overthrew President Milton Obote in July 1985 [ see pp. 34023-24 ] before being forced into exile himself after Museveni 's coup in January 1986 [ see pp. 34536-38 ] , died in Sudan in January 1990 . |
| 3 | They watched him stroll down and seat himself under Carlos 's striped umbrella . |
| 4 | The nuns were kindness itself to Leonora . |
| 5 | On the other hand he was kindness itself to Andrew 's mother-in-law . |
| 6 | Ever since they had known one another , Otto had been kindness itself to Jean-Claude . |
| 7 | These volcanic plugs , from North Berwick Law on the Forth estuary and the Bass Rock in the firth itself to Castle Rock in Edinburgh , provided early tribes with natural defensive sites . |
| 8 | It may not be ready to unburden itself before NT ships . |
| 9 | The British Government in London , the Administration itself in Egypt , was committed to Progress . |
| 10 | In the period beginning just before the punk explosion and ending around 1982 , the rock press played a decisive part in the making and shaping of a succession of trends from punk itself to Two-Tone , the so-called new pop phase and the emergence of quasi-mystical underground acts like Echo and the Bunnymen . |
| 11 | Due mid-September also is a double album of ‘ Haçienda Classics ’ , from New Order to Marshall Jefferson , and it 's all topped off with a party at the club itself on Sept 14 . |
| 12 | What else is there to do , but pig oneself at Conrad Black 's expense ? |
| 13 | He must and would take the field himself against Glendower , and make an end of him . |
| 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 | The book , edited by Michael Brandt and including contributions by Rainer Kahsnitz and Hans Jakob Schuffels , will come out in January to coincide with the exhibition of the Gospel itself in Hildesheim ( 15 January until 28 February 1993 ) . |
| 16 | Finally , he summoned Pole himself to Rome to answer ‘ certain religious suspicions ’ . |
| 17 | Franco had nominally held this post himself since October 1940 , but , for all practical purposes , the Ministry had been run by José Lorente Sanz , one of Serrano 's trusted protégés . |
| 18 | The vote was made at the request of Mitsotakis after he dismissed Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and assumed the post himself on April 13 . |
| 19 | It also demanded a change in the way in which the government was appointed ( the Fifth Congress having given the President the power to appoint ministers ) and a new Prime Minister in place of Yeltsin , who had taken on the post himself in October 1991 [ see p. 38537 ] . |
| 20 | A number of venues for peace talks were proposed in May and June including the mine site itself at Panguna ( unacceptable to Namaliu ) , and the capital of neighbouring Solomon Islands , Honiara ( unacceptable to the BRA on security grounds ) . |
| 21 | I purpose , therefore , to wage war myself in Wales , and I intend to set out from Lichfield on — let me see , this is the twenty-fourth of June — on the seventh day of July . |
| 22 | The fundamentally cautious Mehemet Ali decided to withdraw from Asia Minor and content himself with Syria , but Nicholas realized that , to prevent a recurrence of the crisis , he had to find a way of institutionalizing his short-term assistance to the Ottomans . |
| 23 | The British press continued to display a discretion which was a remarkable tribute to the influence of the Palace as an institution with the ‘ respectable ’ proprietors , and of the King himself with Rothermere and Beaverbrook . |
| 24 | He was fourteen years old , intelligent , forceful , capable of listening attentively to his ministers and then overruling them and going his own way , capable , even , or so they said , of arguing a case strenuously and sensibly against the king himself in Westminster , though he seldom won his way there ; but he was still a boy , unpractised , with little experience yet of living . |
| 25 | Over the next two-and-a-half weeks , the pair will contest a 10-game match in the penultimate stage of the World Chess Championship cycle which leads to a contest for the title itself in August 1993 against Garry Kasparov in Los Angeles . |
| 26 | In the National Assembly itself on May 6 Suchinda delivered his government 's policy statement , which was noisily condemned by opposition members . |
| 27 | She was a guardian herself in Kensington ( 1884–90 ) and Tunbridge Wells ( 1893–6 ) . |
| 28 | He filed the petition himself at Middlesbrough County Court . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Lighting up the hotplate is simplicity itself with Valor 's unique Autolite ignition . |