Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] through [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In social situations , most of us want to enjoy ourselves through pleasant company and good food and wine . |
| 2 | Of course if one " finds " oneself correctly , but certain friends do not , and they try to find themselves through one , or even through one 's findings , all will not be well ! |
| 3 | He had enough for his day-to-day needs , of course , but he would be hard-pressed to see himself through another month if he was to live in the style befitting a gentleman . |
| 4 | Dulwich inevitably suffers from its geographical situation four miles south of central London , and currently lacks any surplus funds to promote itself through increased advertising . |
| 5 | One , keen to express himself through hard work , sees that his only choice is to ‘ better myself and pick my life up . |
| 6 | The characters and their conjugal disjunction have indeed been generated out of a play of pronouns , out of ‘ words on a page ’ , for it is due to the lack they experience in each other that they are not able to constitute themselves through each other as subjects . |
| 7 | So when Hollywood makes a film about a brutal gang rape in the back of a bar , written and directed by men , the reaction tends to be why on earth would we want to put ourselves through that in the name of entertainment ? |
| 8 | He is n't going to put himself through all that again . ’ |
| 9 | The only reason she had decided to put herself through all this with him was because she had a point to prove — a professional point . |
| 10 | She would need to be a masochist to put herself through this kind of torment , seeing him every day , working with him , knowing it could never lead anywhere . |
| 11 | This need not be of great concern to management , however , given the capacity of most companies to finance themselves through retained earnings . |
| 12 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 13 | There are plenty of good coaches about just as there are a multitude of nice misguided types who seek to portray themselves through other people over and over again . |
| 14 | Although a skilled retroscender may learn how to pilot himself through all the historical imagery available I fear that lies some way off for you . |
| 15 | Those failing to take themselves through such graded stress inoculation may be reduced to falling back on an all-or-none defence mechanism in which awareness of the stressful event is completely blocked out , or is experienced in overwhelming intensity . |