Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb -s] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or she zips herself into a black evening gown and she 's a sophisticated 30 year old . |
| 2 | Skinnergate faces two choices : it either declines into a traffic-filled street of second-rate shops or it cleans itself up , providing an open air alternative to the Cornmill 's enclosed space . |
| 3 | Or he turns himself in . |
| 4 | And she involves herself with equal energy in various local charities . |
| 5 | More often than not they turn out to be admirers well versed in her background , and she finds herself answering the sort of urgent questions that ‘ normal people ’ ask when they are introduced to her : how is she settling to her new life ? ; does she miss Low Birk Hatt and her beasts ? ; is she taking care of herself ? ; and so on . |
| 6 | The ravages committed by man subvert the relations and destroy the balance which nature had established between her organized and her inorganic creations ; and she avenges herself upon the intruder , by letting loose upon her defaced provinces destructive energies hitherto kept in check by organic forces destined to be his best auxiliaries , but which he has unwisely dispersed and driven from the field of action . |
| 7 | Archery these days is a sport like any other , and he considers himself to be an athlete . |
| 8 | He was once a social security Minister and he does himself no credit by forgetting that there are two sides to every argument . |
| 9 | On the opening page of Amis 's first novel , Jim mentally decides on his own word when his professor uses another , deferentially pretending as an untenured lecturer to look amused at a weak professorial joke , and he promises himself to make another sort of face to himself when next alone . |
| 10 | This perhaps represents Owen 's line of thought with him becoming more and more emotional to the middles of the verse , reaching climaxes and then , as it is as if he questions this freely running thought process , and he limits himself to so much emotion by the end of each verse . |
| 11 | He sells his company and he sells himself marketing his own deeply held convictions . |
| 12 | The Aird baby has a strong cast of thought and he imposes himself , philosophically speaking ; as he stared at me , lying on my lap , he seemed like a hand of mine . |
| 13 | And he calls himself , rather disarmingly , a ‘ spic ’ . |
| 14 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 15 | And he signs himself off from systematic criticism . |
| 16 | David Nobbs i in London for the preview and he professes himself pleased with the TV version . |
| 17 | No finer example of this can be seen than Castle Acre Priory , 1935 , in which the gaunt power of the medieval ruins is starkly silhouetted against the sky , and he permits himself a rare range of tonal contrast . |
| 18 | As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly . |
| 19 | The soft crust thinks the rotten so-called adult world shops at Next , and it takes itself too seriously ( like any sullen delinquent ) to explore the groovy games of style , experiment and enterprise played by the ‘ kids ’ . |
| 20 | Recruitment to its ranks is highly selective in terms of social and educational status , and it perpetuates itself by spending parts of its accumulated surpluses on privileged education , often abroad , for its favoured sons ( and occasionally daughters ) . |
| 21 | than a typical marker and it lends itself to softer and more characterful styles . |
| 22 | And and it lends itself to interpretive kind of approach rather than a politics sort of approach which tends to be . |
| 23 | A rite is part of the culture the individual is born into , and it imposes itself on him from the outside like the rest of his culture . |
| 24 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |
| 25 | RICHARD : Well , it 's a seed from the fig family , a strangler fig , and it attaches itself … |
| 26 | The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk . |
| 27 | Its role is to oversee the general academic running of the subject in Oxford , and it concerns itself , for example , with the lecture course and examinations . |
| 28 | The Association has ever since this Congress played a prominent part in the affairs of the international deaf community through its membership of the World Federation , and it has itself greatly benefited from its international links . |
| 29 | It would be possible , temporarily , to laugh at the wife being landed in trouble by the monk after her meretricious bargain with him , but she extricates herself from this problem in true fabliau manner . |
| 30 | But she overestimates herself , and she does not know better than to blame herself . |