Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we see ourselves entering into this market not immediately but in the not too distant future . |
| 2 | The closer we allow ourselves to get to another , the more we are affected and influences both consciously and unconsciously through the projective system or defence we described in the last two chapters . |
| 3 | Let us remind ourselves to begin with that howsoever these institutions may differ from those comprising the monetary sector , they have in common the essential features of financial innovation . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , if Qaddafi shows himself limited by this commonplace either-or , he has a decided advantage over West European or American anti-statesmen , who are generally at a loss to say how a society with only families will organize itself : what is to make the linkages among families ? — the market ? — a mafia ? — a telephone company ? |
| 5 | Why , I asked , did he find it acceptable for an artist to have to put up with the paltry sums of money he offered when he himself lived in such style ? |
| 6 | Lydia could quite see Beuno maddeningly getting himself martyred on some trivial point of principle , or overturning a regime with his angelic intransigence . |
| 7 | Following Emily in , he found himself surrounded on all sides by sagging shelves bearing rusty paint tins ; jam jars containing stubby brushes ; bottles half full of amber fluid , and oil cans . |
| 8 | The result was that on his arrival at Baden Napoleon III found himself surrounded by all the German rulers : the Kings of Württemberg , Bavaria , Saxony and Hanover , the Grand Dukes of Hesse-Darmstadt and Saxe-Weimar plus the Dukes of Nassau and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . |
| 9 | She 'd always said he 'd kill himself driving like that and now he had . |
| 10 | J. was himself injured in several other incidents involving bombs , once being temporarily blinded when a marker bomb exploded almost in his face . |
| 11 | That a mere colonel in the White House would have taken it upon himself to engage in such duplicitous and totally illegal operations without the president 's knowledge and authority is quite impossible to believe . |
| 12 | Mitterrand himself hinted at some of these in 1951 : |
| 13 | ‘ It is a humiliating thought , but true , ’ wrote one of them , the educational reformer J. H. Pestalozzi , ‘ that any advance in the good leadership of people must proceed from the cabinets of monarchs ’ ; and he himself acted on this thought by offering his services to the Habsburg emperors Joseph II and Leopold II . |
| 14 | In addition there was the tension of waiting for news from the Ministry of Sport and despite all Herr Nordern 's warnings , based on his own profound experience of bureaucracy , he , as well as the rest of the family , found himself waiting with more than usual interest for the postman 's knock . |
| 15 | Charlie found himself waiting in another queue before coming face to face with the sergeant again . |
| 16 | He 'll find himself going into some supermarket in Praed Street , buying fillets of plaice and frozen broccoli for her sons ' dinner … |
| 17 | The hardships that they had once suffered had left no bitterness in their gentle souls , and all their lives they showed the mercy and kindness to others that God himself shows to all things that breathe . |
| 18 | Every civil servant finds himself entrusted with this kind of inheritance . |
| 19 | After the group does disband , Gedge might find himself employed in some other aspect of the music business . |
| 20 | He side-slipped to miss three tightly spiralling planes , and found himself drifting into another cluster . |
| 21 | By becoming the 1990 medallist , Paddy Barry finds himself ranked with such legends of the sea as Francis Chichester , Eric Tabarly , Bernard Moitesserie , Eric Hiscock , Bill Tilman , Rod Stephens . |
| 22 | Gorbachev himself contributed to this task in an extended statement , ‘ The socialist idea and revolutionary perestroika' , which appeared in Pravda in November 1989 . |
| 23 | Darwin himself contributed to this trend by bringing back fossils from the voyage of the Beagle showing that the past inhabitants of South America were closely related to the modern ones . |
| 24 | Albeit with certain symbolic variations , Jesus himself conforms to this pattern . |
| 25 | Allowing 10 minutes per client for collection each week , assuming the collector gets rather less than average industrial earnings and himself copes with all the paperwork involved during those 10 minutes , and assuming that the trading check firm pays the shops where the check has been used ( less its commission — perhaps 12½ per cent ) about a month after writing the check , the actual return to the lender would work out at only 7 per cent — that is to say , less than the firm 's own borrowing costs would be , even without making any allowance for either bad debts and late payments or office overheads . |
| 26 | He faces the issue and chooses to explain the vision he had received which led to his actions in making himself known to these despised Gentiles . |
| 27 | McLeish found himself shocked by this piece of feminine sharpness and must have registered something because his sergeant blushed . |
| 28 | However , God Himself dealt with that barrier when God the Son , Jesus Christ , came to earth and sacrifice Himself on the Cross of Calvary to pay the penalty for the sins of others . |
| 29 | Sidgwick himself settles without much ado for total welfare . |
| 30 | I mean , I think it 's terrible and , and I mean , if Mr Lilley himself went into some of the houses that I go into and see the the existence that they live , because that 's all it is , you know , it 's just an existence . |