Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided a breastfeeding mother looks after herself by wearing a good supporting bra , no further damage should be done to her figure . |
| 2 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 3 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 4 | Then she gets in the back bedroom , we got a mirror at the back there what was took off one the dressing tables , and she sits and looks at herself in there and she keeps going like that |
| 5 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 6 | Dyer thinks of himself as ‘ a stranger to mankind ’ ; his life is led apart , ‘ in a Corner ’ . |
| 7 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 8 | ( Who , after all , ever thinks of himself as a bourgeois ? ) |
| 9 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 10 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 11 | No matter how much of a slavey she might really be , a chambermaid never thinks of herself as a maid . |
| 12 | She thinks of herself as a discursive fabric in which beliefs get lodged and are subsequently removed . |
| 13 | MIND OVER MATTER : A hijra thinks of herself as a woman |
| 14 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 15 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , he never lets anyone over the door and he sees to himself for the most part . |
| 17 | What Ferguson had found and what the left just could not see was that when Hollywood really tried they produced a thing that ought not be pedantically analysed for ‘ the thing exists by itself for its moments on the screen , unquestionable ’ . |
| 18 | A community which feels that no-one cares naturally turns into itself for reassurance . |
| 19 | A community which feels that no-one cares naturally turns into itself for reassurance . |
| 20 | In the Gospel , too , Jesus alludes to himself as Paraclete : for when promising ‘ another paraclete ’ or ‘ another as paraclete ’ in 14:16 ( it makes no difference which way you take the Greek ) Jesus is dearly insisting that he is their Paraclete already , just as the Epistle says he is . |
| 21 | He smiles to himself in the mirror . |
| 22 | That 's really the interpretation of extrovert and introvert and the fact that it can apply to you know being loud and gregarious as an extrovert or being quiet and keeps to himself as an introvert that 's more of a popular view which is n't the sort of thing we 're trying to put across . |
| 23 | This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense . |
| 24 | You may find a stream , a cave , a factory , a prison you did not know was there but which insists upon itself as a landmark . |
| 25 | The scientific observer conceives of himself as a rational mind looking out through a plate-glass window on to an inaccessible " nature " . |
| 26 | I 'm not sure , as she scowls at herself in the mirror , about the choice of films in which she contemplates a role . |
| 27 | It would seem that imagination rightly directed enables the extension of meaning which is involved in the Incarnation ; but as the Incarnation points beyond itself in the risen and ascended Christ , so imaginative knowledge of God is transcended by a more purely spiritual experience . |
| 28 | Jeremy settles Kate on a rattan sofa with a whisky , flicks on the stereo and then sits down himself at the other end of the sofa , making sure that she notices his careful maintenance of physical space between them . |
| 29 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |
| 30 | On the question of money , Stan refers to himself as an entrepreneur . |