Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the individuation by demonstratives that provides a basis for a unitary system of spatio-temporal relations in which every particular has a unique place and in which we ourselves provide the main point of reference . |
| 2 | We 've all had such dreams — in which we find ourselves wearing the wrong clothes , in the wrong place , at the wrong time , missing the train , etc . |
| 3 | When we started work on it , however , we found ourselves rewriting the whole grammar , changing its organization , and introducing much additional material based on the Survey of English Usage . |
| 4 | Along that road lies endless retreat , and the end of it is a voluntary totalitarian state with ourselves erecting the barbed wire around . |
| 5 | and then wrote himself a note to remind himself to untie the blooming thing . |
| 6 | Leopold 's tragedy was that of a parent whose cherished child spurns his advice in adolescent rebellion ; but , unlike , for example , Alessandro Scarlatti , another musician father with a son more brilliant than himself , Leopold could never quite bring himself to untie the emotional leashes and allow his own ‘ young eagle whose wings are grown ’ to find his own way in the world . |
| 7 | Scobie is surely right when , with regard to Let Us Compare Mythologies he says that the title ‘ seems to indicate that Cohen himself regarded the religious sense as the primary one ’ — which in The Spice-Box Of Earth becomes completely explicit and even urgent . |
| 8 | President Reagan himself led the conservative assault yesterday on what he called a return to ‘ failed liberal policies of the past ’ . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Franco himself approached the Italian government and General Mola organized a delegation of monarchists , who saw the Italian Foreign Minister , Galeazzo Ciano , on 25 July . |
| 10 | Through the right of his mother , Edward had himself claimed the French crown when it fell vacant in 1328 , but probably more in hope than expectation , for in the following year and again in 1331 he acknowledged Philip VI 's lordship of Gascony ; not until 1337 was his own interest in the French crown voiced again . |
| 11 | Instead , by living among them , God will himself guarantee the unabated reality of his personal presence . |
| 12 | He found himself becoming the emotional prop of the marriage . |
| 13 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 14 | Louis himself handles the whispery vocals of the delicate ‘ Share ’ , which recalls the elegant Chic ballads . |
| 15 | Arnold himself deplored the unnatural disruption of the affections in sending a boy away to school . |
| 16 | So taken by the Cardus pictures in words , Simon took it upon himself to visit the famous school and ‘ the most beautiful playing fields in the world . ’ |
| 17 | So taken by the Cardus pictures in words , Simon took it upon himself to visit the famous school and ‘ the most beautiful playing fields in the world . ’ |
| 18 | Alexander 's episcopate was to witness the elevation of Lichfield to equal status with Coventry , and from c .1226 the bishop himself adopted the joint style of bishop of Coventry and Lichfield , in preference to Coventry alone . |
| 19 | After leaving Paris where he had attended the CSCE conference on Nov. 19-21 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , Bush had himself visited the Middle East from Nov. 21 , spending the following day ( the US Thanksgiving Day ) with US troops in Saudi Arabia , meeting King Fahd there and Egypt 's President Mubarak in Cairo , and returning via Geneva where he had a meeting on Nov. 23 with President Assad of Syria . |
| 20 | He himself played the chief role in the film , that of a bisexual young man whose girlfriend decides they will not use condoms although she knows he is seropositive , because she believes that ‘ love will protect her . ’ |
| 21 | While Wyllie himself played the leading role in his side 's narrow victory , he was given excellent support by the equally experienced second-row pair , Ian Burnside and Ben Gordon , who won the touchline battle , and Finlay Calder , playing possibly his last first XV game for the club . |
| 22 | The humiliating financial dependence on his parents , a fact of life ever since he had been dismissed from Goupil 's , was being gradually shifted on to Theo , who would soon find himself shouldering the whole burden . |
| 23 | Kautsky himself defended the orthodox case in Neue Zeit — namely , Polish national liberation , while not as strategically important as before , was still revolutionary and anti-Tsarist ; any compromise on the issue would give aid and comfort to the Tsars . |
| 24 | As Gorbachev had himself told the Central Committee in February 1988 , in the ideological sphere above all they must be guided by their Marxist-Leninist principles and not forgo them under any circumstances . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He says his only reason for deciding to kill Caesar was that he had committed himself to help the general public . |
| 27 | Ceauşescu could trust himself to play the liberal , but he could not be certain of Gorbachev 's real intentions . |
| 28 | The Duke of Edinburgh himself addressed the gathered winners — and there was a further thrill when distinguished actor Ron Moody presented her certificate and badge . |
| 29 | Apart from the practical work in Physics , Daniels himself taught the whole course . |
| 30 | I knew one family where the husband hung himself facing the front door so that his body would be the first thing his wife would see as she came in . |