Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be ten years since I went to the optician and I keep promising myself I will go when the opportunity presents itself , because I love to read . |
| 2 | We are all in agreement that we will return to Lourdes when the opportunity presents itself , and are very grateful to the parishioners of St Bernadette 's Parish , who donated money to pay for us to go . |
| 3 | I 'll tell her when the opportunity presents itself . |
| 4 | Individual desertions are bound to take place , and perhaps in considerable numbers , on the rare occasion where the opportunity presents itself . |
| 5 | A true soldier always eats , drinks , sleeps and takes a wench whenever the opportunity presents itself . ’ |
| 6 | For protestant loyalists , the majority means themselves . |
| 7 | Otherwise you will have to slow down until the water flow around the skeg re-establishes itself . |
| 8 | And remember , Roger , the thread had been removed , the fuse destroys itself , and people coming in and out of the room , once the bed was on fire , would scarcely think it suspicious even if they saw the odd burn mark on the floor . |
| 9 | On the one hand medicine is seen as a body of scientific knowledge and as a set of techniques , for which the GP feels himself to be relatively poorly equipped . |
| 10 | And in addition , since the writer disassociates herself and most ‘ caring and considerate people ’ from the people who caused Zahira 's experiences , it suggests that nothing need be done to change the set-up which resulted in her tragic experience , that citizens whose government is racist and oppressive are in no way responsible for its policies . |
| 11 | Not , does it matter if the writer contradicts himself ; but , does it matter what colour they are anyway ? |
| 12 | Then the runner introduces himself . |
| 13 | Inside , the heart repeats itself like a sleepy gong , |
| 14 | ( In fact , this is really an example of intentional and deliberate socialisation in education , since one of the self-conscious functions of the British public school is the perpetuation of that distinctive life-style by which the elite marks itself off from the rest of society . ) |
| 15 | Corporate sailing , either as a training exercise , a reward , or just because the chairman fancies himself as Captain Bligh , is a fast growing business . |
| 16 | The insect jerks itself free and hangs on the empty pupa case , its body trembling . |
| 17 | The old plates split apart , usually along a line running down the back , and the insect hauls itself out . |
| 18 | Slowly and laboriously , with frequent pauses to gather strength , the insect hauls itself out . |
| 19 | The bit anchors itself in one of two ways . |
| 20 | We get to know people by accepting them , by trusting them — the opposite of doubt — and by " giving them the benefit of the doubt " indeed , unless exceedingly strong evidence to the contrary presents itself . |
| 21 | The male positions himself at the edge of the nest and fires a rapid succession of water droplets one to two inches out of the water and onto the nest itself to possibly agitate the eggs for recognition purposes . |
| 22 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 23 | The male busies himself with placing the eggs in a nest , and when this is complete , the ritual can begin again . |
| 24 | Physiological addiction is not the same as addictive disease in which the sufferer finds himself or herself drawn back to the drug even against his or her will . |
| 25 | To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery . |
| 26 | The story concerns itself with those negotiations . |
| 27 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 28 | As they mature , they migrate to the skin surface — the skin renews itself about every 28 days . |
| 29 | Though one is lost and another damaged , the survivor is sent off into space with the forest when the scientist destroys himself with his ship to conceal the fact that the forest still exists . |
| 30 | If you have yet to record a scene which will end the tape in a suitable way — maybe a farewell wide shot of the whole park , or of people beginning to pack up and go home — now is the time to do it before the battery goes completely and the camcorder switches itself off . |