Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [pn reflx] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all the enigmas in his career , Wojciech Jaruzelski seems himself to be the prototype of what the USSR has come to trust most in the Polish military outlook . |
| 2 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 3 | Frank shows himself to be the only ventriloquist to move his lips but not his teeth . |
| 4 | Thus Vico restricts himself to " gentile " history ( which includes that of the Greeks and Romans and North American Indians ) but carefully avoids any challenge to the Old Testament . |
| 5 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 6 | The plaintiff 's accountant Mr confines himself to quantifying the heads of loss and does n't speak with reference to the er allegations that are made in any way . |
| 7 | Nowadays , Stevenson confines himself to the ( occasional ) early morning run and , more frequently , riding his horse . |
| 8 | this does no mean that Bristol considers itself to be outside the Continent . |
| 9 | Louis proves himself to be saint as well as king . |
| 10 | The chlorine atoms make way for the other atoms when cis- DDP attaches itself to guanine , one of the bases of DNA . |
| 11 | When Othello swears revenge , Iago offers himself to ‘ obey … without remorse , /What bloody business ever ’ ( 469f. ) — that is , he means , the bloodier the better . |
| 12 | God reveals himself to us as personal in a very unique way . |
| 13 | This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God . |
| 14 | More specifically , Lukacs shows himself to be extremely hostile to a number of key concepts on the socialist realist agenda precisely because they are symptomatic of an excessively subjectivist and false , because partial , view of reality . |
| 15 | IAN McCANN grins himself to death for a cosy tour round the home of BILLY BRAGG , THE HOUSEMARTINS , THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH and recent recruits THE FRANK & WALTERS |
| 16 | I think too , ’ said the Archdeacon with untoward frankness , ‘ Marr feels himself to be entitled to more success in the Church than he 's actually achieved . |
| 17 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 18 | Nor need the scenery always be dramatic : the languid countryside of Norfolk lends itself to exploratory trips with Albion Rides ( Tel : 0603 87125 ) . |
| 19 | I think it 's a great tragedy that Wales considers itself to be the poor relation within the United Reform Church and the answer can only lie within Wales ! |