Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The morally estimable act of exposing to us the worst in ourselves nearly always has something morally equivocal about it . |
| 2 | But when curiosity got the better of us we found ourselves almost immediately drawn to a highland community where , like a long-awaiting gift , we were invited to build a house for about a thousand pounds on a verdant piece of property . |
| 3 | Erm , you know it 's saying that motherhood is a good thing , but let's not exert ourselves too greatly to do anything about it . |
| 4 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 5 | Not exactly lazy — although that is how he describes himself-as a delegator and motivator he had always excelled and now found himself less directly occupied . |
| 6 | As Arnold himself so clearly saw , ‘ a society formed exclusively of boys , that is of elements each separately weak and imperfect , becomes more than an aggregate of their several defects ; the amount of evil in the mass is greater than the sum of evil in the individuals ’ . |
| 7 | The elitist image that Reynolds himself so carefully nurtured has been successfully transplanted in British soil , principally through the efforts of David Norman , David Shellard and , more recently , Roddy Gow , ex-Trinity College Cambridge , the Scots Guards and Barclays Bank : clearly the British equivalents of the Ivy Leaguers back in New York . |
| 8 | And the Cid Ruydiez did so well , and made such mortality among the Moors , that the blood ran from his wrist to his elbow ! great pleasure had he in his horse Bavieca that day , to find himself so well mounted . |
| 9 | He 'd hear the engine starting , of course , but , by the time he 'd got himself together enough to do anything about it , she should at least have a head start . |
| 10 | As Minton was fond of saying , ‘ Do n't possess anything , because if you do it will end up possessing you , ’ he himself not surprisingly felt uncomfortable in this Home Beautiful and , never really liking the place , was to move again after only two years . |
| 11 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 12 | Since real action in the world was now denied him , Uncle Mick gave himself over thoroughly to debate . |
| 13 | Fonda himself once again suffered the attribution of the word ‘ wooden ’ . |
| 14 | Also a couple of days later Olsen himself once again spoke upon the matter — and the headline was something like ‘ Get a new club , Frank ’ . |
| 15 | Under Clifford , Palmer bided his time , keeping to himself his misgivings about the governor 's achievements in centralization , and exerting himself openly only to oppose Clifford 's proposal that lawyers should be allowed to plead in the provincial courts , thereby unacceptably diluting what had been under Lugard the Resident 's almost unrestricted jurisdiction over them . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that he had apparently not put himself out overmuch to get home , he was given a hero 's welcome in Polperro . |
| 17 | It 's an admission that a 42-year-old who throws himself around manically shouting , ’ Go on kid , give it some of that ’ should n't be taken that seriously . |
| 18 | Genet reinscribes himself within the violent hierarchies of his oppression , installing himself there relentlessly to invert and pervert them . |
| 19 | After a few minutes with Mr Malik , Robert himself quite often felt like making the frighteningly short journey from doubt to belief . |
| 20 | Mosley was himself quite seriously hurt by a brick at a meeting in Liverpool in 1937 . |
| 21 | During 1893 Captain Sykes became Chairman of Governors , and found himself almost immediately contributing to the " substantial repairs " needed to the buildings . |
| 22 | Apart from pieces by Lawrence , he did not print further creative work which linked the primitive and the modern ; he himself no longer reviewed anthropological books . |
| 23 | He really had himself very well organised at Binbrook . |
| 24 | For one thing , Callinicos goes out of his way to establish that the intellectual tradition he is concerned to critique is itself most fruitfully read , not as an articulation of a qualitatively new postmodernism , but an instance of a Modernist-type response . |
| 25 | This is because the sentence itself only partly determines what happens to offenders . |
| 26 | And his face itself had taken on an almost gaunt look , the strong bone-structure rigidly marked , and the skin itself only lightly tanned , despite the hot summer they had just enjoyed . |
| 27 | The next day she decided to saddle the horse for a ride , but as the girth was being tightened the horse pulled back in great fear , broke its halter rope , and threw itself over backwards sending the saddle crashing to the ground . |
| 28 | Since all the members of the family made no attempt to hide their feelings of antipathy , Mathilde 's behaviour was in itself not particularly remarked on by those who packed the huge interior of Notre Dame : |
| 29 | Throughout the eighties some officials displayed a tendency to overdo the latest idea , often itself not particularly sound . |
| 30 | Some feminist critics have condemned this film for itself not roundly condemning violence towards women . |