Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is left for members of the host community to do , as it busies itself ghettoizing the minority ; and as it ghettoizes it mumbles , and if you listen carefully you can just discern beneath the self-righteousness , the self-congratulation , the following : ‘ Okay , okay , so you were having a hard time in your own country . |
| 2 | As a result of these anti-avoidance provisions , the foreign business carve-out is excluded , and the general COB Rules apply in relation to the customer concerned , where : ( 1 ) A UK office executes a transaction with or for a UK private customer on the instructions of a non-UK office ; or ( 2 ) A UK office gives investment advice in relation to any transaction to a non-UK office , which the non-UK office passes on to ( or uses for the benefit of ) a UK private customer if ( in either case ) : ( a ) the UK office itself transmitted the order to a non-UK office of the firm ( even if a different one from that instructing it ) ; ( b ) the UK office has itself advised the customer in relation to the transaction concerned ( and the customer has then directly or indirectly given the order to the non-UK office which deals through the UK office ) ; or ( c ) the UK office has advised the customer to deal through or seek advice from a non-UK office of the firm ( even if the relevant prescribed disclosure was made ) . |
| 3 | She heads an executive committee of about 20 and has herself instigated the Westminster meeting , which she describes as ‘ my baby ’ . |
| 4 | He identifies himself with the prophets of the Old Testament in addressing contemporary life , and echoes St Paul when he sees himself keeping the streams of doctrine pure : ‘ For I am inquisitive in the Lord , and defend the philosophy of the scripture against vain deceit ’ ( A130 ) . |
| 5 | He sees himself crossing the road — deftly , like a native , knowing exactly which way to look for the traffic . |
| 6 | As will be demonstrated with respect to Orientalism itself , Said can not get out of the Hegelian problematic that he articulates , and indeed tends himself to repeat the very processes that he criticizes . |
| 7 | Zab finds herself using the now obsolete narrative conventions of the memoir . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Teresa finds herself learning the hard way how to survive in Africa and she discovers that its beauty is not without danger . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The apparent ease of his contrapuntal textures , too , is another example of art concealing art : a moment 's listening behind the quiet , untrammelled ease with which Jenkins expresses himself reveals the downright mastery involved . |
| 11 | An organism adapts to another when it changes itself to suit the latter . |
| 12 | Her spite is aroused by the Gattletons ' ostentatious amateur theatricals , and she successfully sets herself to sabotage the proceedings ; her daughter Emma . |
| 13 | In young miocenics the glad may be very over active when it should have become atrophied , and in some patients , not very many , there may be a benign tumour of the gland and erm but we do n't think that that tumour does itself provoke the immune response , but there is a distant and rare cousin of miocenia gravis , the lampodetonmiocenic syndrome , where cancer does play a bigger part . |
| 14 | If Congress brings itself to adopt the economic freedoms which have made so much of Asia rich — but which India 's intellectual and social elites have smugly rejected — the yearned-for 21st century is within its grasp . |