Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do this by assuming that it is in fact cooperative , and then asking ourselves what possible connection there could be between the location of Bill and the location of a yellow VW , and thus arrive at the suggestion ( which B effectively conveys ) that , if Bill has a yellow VW , he may be in Sue 's house . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is worth reminding ourselves what this Bill does . |
| 3 | And I feel if now we deny ourselves our greatest delight and say our love alone shall make us strong , our strength shall not depend on anything but our love then indeed I think we shall be creating an independence of each other , which can only make our binding sympathy more perfect … . for the present , for the 14 months before I am 21 then I have after much real thought , much consideration decided that it would be best for both of us to be separated … |
| 4 | ‘ The tramp , Harry Mack , did n't kill himself My preliminary view is that neither did your son . |
| 5 | He acknowledged to himself his own share of the blame . |
| 6 | I sent a message via others of Nigel 's relations that , should he do the bit about it ‘ pleasing Almighty God to take unto himself our dear brother Nigel ’ , he would run the risk of an immediate and very angry protest from me . |
| 7 | ‘ And besides , ’ Hazel continued , ‘ there 's this prat of a bloke who 's made himself our glorious leader . ’ |
| 8 | And part of the demand for a centralized curriculum , dictated from above , has stemmed from the confused notion that such a curriculum would be not only vocational and future-directed , but strict , narrow , and exact , containing within itself its own criteria of rightness and wrongness . |
| 9 | In a provocative comparison of the failures of the French and Russian revolutions , he argued that the problem stemmed from the fact that no class , whether proletarian or bourgeoisie , can become the ruling class without taking upon itself something of the historical role of a ruling class — especially if at the same time it also considers that , history carries within itself its own cure' : |
| 10 | … The common ordinary mind is quite unfit to fix for itself what political question it shall attend to ; it is as much as it can do to judge decently of the questions which drift down to it , and are brought before it … |
| 11 | The population of each tree looks after itself Our large trees are like your cities and towns , and the small trees are like your villages . ’ |
| 12 | And when she reached her room Lucy told herself her flushed cheeks were merely the result of the climb up the slope . |
| 13 | Joan 's seeming ill-humour was a ploy to conceal even from herself her true feelings — the quickening of her pulses at mention of the beloved , told a different story . |
| 14 | It was not until the next to last day of the visit that she finally formulated to herself her secret desire , which was to see Montmartre at night . |
| 15 | Ellie wondered to herself what new department she was being taken to now . |
| 16 | She could well imagine for herself what alternative occupations Fen had in mind . |
| 17 | For yourself-on your own account . ’ |
| 18 | The Friend is like a ‘ profitless usurer ’ ( a violent paradox in the Renaissance , as today ) : ‘ For having traffic with thyself alone — Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive ’ ( 4.9f ) . |
| 19 | One final passage from Myself My Two Countries vividly evokes the influences which formed Boulestin 's tastes in food and implanted in him that feeling for the authenticity which alone is true luxury . |
| 20 | Edward acknowledges her effect on him in a letter — one of numerous happy , affectionate letters to ‘ My dearest Friend ’ — from his lodgings at 113 Cowley Road , Oxford , 29 January 1898 ( the third of his letters to her after his return to Oxford for the Lent Term ) : Take care of yourself my dearest friend . |
| 21 | The Courts of Love would not have worked if the women had not created the qualities within themselves which those knights could respond to . |
| 22 | But it was not the blind peasant rebellions themselves which frightened governments — they were short-lived and would be put down with fire and sword even by liberals , as in Sicily — but the mobilisation of peasant unrest behind a political challenge to the central authority . |
| 23 | For Wissenschaft has its limits , and the " unshakable faith " in its power ensures that its most gifted followers press on until they reach those limits and discover for themselves its ultimate powerlessness to solve the problem of existence . |
| 24 | I think everybody 's got themselves summat some faults . |
| 25 | We have not yet taken decisions on the recognition of the republics of the Soviet Union — apart from the Baltic states — as they are still discussing among themselves their future relations . |
| 26 | This is a condensed account of the factors which complicate the business of speaking and listening — readers will easily add for themselves their own accounts of the personal and emotional features which make for vulnerability or call for sensitivity . |
| 27 | They would be able to see that the doctrine could provide criteria whereby they could settle for themselves their own problems , such for example , as that of differentiating between the prickings of conscience and the spiritual crushings of a guilt complex . |
| 28 | Doubts as to even the possible reality of such a law , arising from an excessively empiricist conception of the possibilities of being , prove unreasonable in the light of the establishable fact that both the every day world in which we live , and we ourselves , are only appearances of a realm of things in themselves whose true nature is hidden from us. for this opens the possibility that what we are in ourselves is essentially rational beings , belonging to a society of rational beings , while what we are as appearances is sensory beings . |
| 29 | Confront your fears by asking yourself what practical steps you would be taking if you were feeling motivated — make a list and do them . |
| 30 | Constantly ask yourself what key questions reading this book is going to help to answer . |