Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , Szeliga says : ‘ We are not coming in to buy market share ; we aim to promote ourselves at the quality and mid-priced end of the market . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , we still make certain assumptions about them and about our relationship to them , otherwise we would simply not know how to orient ourselves towards the language , or what to say . |
| 3 | Far from being an academic abstraction , the notion of discourse type is something we all use every day in order to orient ourselves towards the communication in which we are involved . |
| 4 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 5 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 6 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 7 | But even if we are able to accommodate ourselves to the fact that our parents were not altogether " good " from the child 's viewpoint , we may still retain the ideal in our minds . |
| 8 | ‘ Get into the main street , we can try to lose ourselves amongst the other cabs . ’ |
| 9 | To be humble is learning to know ourselves in the light of the knowledge of God . |
| 10 | The SS will advertise our willingness to inform ourselves about the needs of industry . |
| 11 | Now is the time for us all to inform ourselves about the problem to make sure that we all have a part in the making of that decision ’ . |
| 12 | We tend to isolate ourselves from the rest of the natural world and yet we are very much a part of it . |
| 13 | It was a huge relief to find himself in the big bedroom with its heavy mahogany furniture . |
| 14 | He liked some music but generally was n't musical and was always slightly put off to find himself in the company of those who were . |
| 15 | Muller , however , is surprised to find himself in the company of players he once idolised , and he has yet to recognise that he is about to become a similar figure . |
| 16 | Liz , at the magic moment , found herself unexpectedly clutching the hot hand of Ivan Warner , which seemed wrong but ordained : she looked for Charles , and saw that the poor man had managed to find himself in the icy palm of Lady Henrietta . |
| 17 | How bitter must he be to find himself in the position in which he was now ? |
| 18 | Increasingly man is being urged to launch himself into the barely-explored regions of his innermost self in ‘ crafts ’ which are often unstable . |
| 19 | She just looked up at him with bewildered eyes and he put her firmly away , turning to launch himself into the water . |
| 20 | PHIL Sorenti decided to launch himself off the tallest building on campus for the best of reasons . |
| 21 | He had a feeling that Maidstone mentioned them to vindicate himself in the eyes of others . |
| 22 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 23 | ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition . |
| 24 | And Lyle believes he is ready to impose himself in the Majors . |
| 25 | He knows , though , that with first choice Bruce Grobbelaar approaching full fitness after his hamstring trouble and James eager to impose himself in the top flight , that Souness faces a difficult choice . |
| 26 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 27 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 28 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 29 | He was still trying to establish himself after the siege in the flooded crater . |
| 30 | Nickle moved to St Helens from Sheffield in the close season and , despite injuries , has managed to establish himself in the side . |