Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it is too early for beginners to concern themselves with the relationship between musical forms and mathematics , the often surprising exactness in the relative proportions of musical sections , and even between movements , may be mentioned here . |
| 2 | The Confederation of British Industry after examining the extra work for employers described themselves as ‘ horrified ’ at the thought of LIT ( Layfield 1976 , App 8:249 ) . |
| 3 | While Pooley poured the coffee , Milton waited for Blenkinsop to seat himself comfortably . |
| 4 | His concern about Germany manifested itself again in 1936 , when he accepted the post in Geneva of League of Nations high commissioner for German refugees , a position he held until 1938 . |
| 5 | After waiting two years on the back-burner for Batmania to boil itself dry Clean and Sober is finally getting a UK release , allowing Michael Keaton to do his twitching and snorting coke fiend routine without risk of dirtying the caped crusader 's pristine image . |
| 6 | The superimposition of targets and penalties upon the GREA-based block-grant mechanism made the system very complex , whilst the uncertainties engendered by fluctuations in targets , penalties , GREAs and the like inhibited financial planning and encouraged a tendency for authorities to protect themselves by building up reserves ( Audit Commission , 1984b ; Comptroller and Auditor General , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | To cut a long story short , such is Smiley 's loathing for government that he has decided to establish his own private nation on Henderson Island , The Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) has neither accepted nor refused Smiley 's request For permission to build himself a family-sized mansion and an airstrip on Henderson . |
| 8 | An animal might for instance prepare itself for a fight by learning a particular association between some noise and the appearance of its enemy in the near future . |
| 9 | As pope , his affection for Germany reasserted itself . |
| 10 | He had to wait , keep patient , until a time for action presented itself . |
| 11 | It is not possible , however , to come to any conclusion about the usefulness of testing and inspection ( outsider evaluations ) without considering what is possible for schools to do themselves ( Becher et al , 1979 , go on to consider the merits of school-based approaches ) . |
| 12 | Despite criticism of these research findings , I remain convinced that they offer a framework for schools to investigate themselves as organisations and for teachers to analyse themselves as individuals when meeting disruptive behaviour . |
| 13 | He was awakened just before noon by the Master of Novices who announced that a message had come from John Benstede asking for Corbett to present himself at the castle immediately . |
| 14 | By the very act of reading on into the tale from the Miller 's Prologue we as readers allow ourselves to be manipulated into supposing ourselves somehow different from the readership of " " every gentil wight " " that is offered a warning and an invitation to : We know ourselves to be more complex beings . |
| 15 | Honeymoon cystitis , with its descriptive and emotive label , is badly named , because it by no means restricts itself to married couples on honeymoon , whatever small proportion of such couples , these days , wait until their honeymoon for their first sexual experience together . |
| 16 | Sharaf Rashidov , the former party boss , would lie about the cotton crop year after year to ingratiate himself with Moscow . |
| 17 | It took a moment or two for Ronni to gather herself together , then she hurried upstairs and tapped on Silvia 's door . |
| 18 | He had moved himself right across France and through Spain to get himself repatriated . |
| 19 | Under existing company law , accounts are prepared on the assumption that the company is a going concern , but there is no explicit requirement for directors to satisfy themselves that this is a reasonable assumption to make , by , for example , preparing a cash flow forecast . |
| 20 | It was at that stage , Sir , that Mrs Brown made a claim for benefit to support herself and her eleven year old son and so that claim for benefit was a perfectly legitimate one . |
| 21 | Certain staff who might have shown a real aptitude for broadcasting found themselves discouraged by civil service rules on promotion and pay . |
| 22 | For twelve days her subconscious mind had ‘ seen ’ Sylvia calmly and confidently entering the cupboard under the stairs with no signs of panic ; so when , on the thirteenth day , she came to do it in reality there was still no need for anxiety to manifest itself . |
| 23 | This reformulation shows why it was necessary for Foucault to free himself from what he later termed ‘ the repressive hypothesis ’ of liberation . |
| 24 | The author of Acts identifies himself as a man named Luke , and modern scholars concur that he is identical with the author of Luke 's Gospel . |
| 25 | On these grounds he had as good a claim as either the king of Wessex or of León to call himself an emperor ; and his great prestige may well have had something to do with it . |
| 26 | It sounds just like the kind of story Waits himself would make up . |
| 27 | During fierce street fighting around the temple of Myrmidia , the warrior goddess of Estalia , a group of knights found themselves surrounded by the dreaded Black Guard led by Emir Wasr the Cruel . |
| 28 | Nor need the scenery always be dramatic : the languid countryside of Norfolk lends itself to exploratory trips with Albion Rides ( Tel : 0603 87125 ) . |
| 29 | Even then , the problem of seamen finding themselves disqualified for petty reasons remained an aggravating one . |
| 30 | The superintendent slipped the phone back into its cradle and a crease of worry tucked itself into her forehead . |