Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it 's to reward ourselves for an achievement , or to lift our spirits , many women find little can compete with the rustle of tissue paper and the thrill of slipping into a pristine new outfit . |
| 2 | We have tried to stand aside and we see ourselves as an institute that cares |
| 3 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 4 | So are we saying Mr Chairman that , we er launch ourselves into an adventure like an assessment without actually having an idea of the cost ? |
| 5 | Therefore , as we descend into Jupiter we encounter no surface , but gradually find ourselves amidst an ocean . |
| 6 | The second , referred to obscurely in Helen 's last letter from Margate , was Mr Thomas 's decision that Edward should not take up a Civil Service post , but instead prepare himself for an Oxford entrance scholarship . |
| 7 | Undismayed , he haled an old man out of the audience , stuck him in the chair , and then spoke himself for an hour and answered all the questions . |
| 8 | The serious business of gaining an Oxford scholarship and some measure of financial independence had begun and , for a time , gave Edward the drive necessary to matriculate easily as a non-collegiate student at Oxford , to live in lodgings there , and to attend a full course of lectures to prepare himself for an entrance scholarship to Balliol , Merton , or Lincoln . |
| 9 | Later he reproves himself for an impulse to be rude to a ‘ good auld guy ’ encountered during his terminal search for a bus , and we think of the prating ‘ good old man ’ Polonius . |
| 10 | Having started his working life in business ( with the Dunlop Rubber Company ) , he saw himself as an impresario rather than a producer-director , and he consistently sought to develop an environment which stimulated the creativity of others . |
| 11 | He began as a circus acrobat and gymnast with the Karno Trio ( from which he took his stage name in the 1880s ) , but , by the 1890s , he had developed his flair for low comedy , and established himself as an entrepreneur of often ‘ speechless ’ sketches . |
| 12 | On the question of money , Stan refers to himself as an entrepreneur . |
| 13 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 14 | Hornblower is no more comfortable with himself as an admiral , commodore of a Baltic convoy , than he was as a junior captain . |
| 15 | Originally appointed in 1916 to teach Mathematics , he had soon revealed himself as an organiser " par excellence " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He imagined himself as an officer , in command of Valence and Tundrish . |
| 18 | Ernie , who regarded himself as an expert with horses , had never at any time reassessed his skills . |
| 19 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 20 | He presents himself as an individualist , who only later and almost reluctantly becomes aware of the wider aspects of the war as a battle for civilization and humanity . |
| 21 | He started to distinguish himself as an athlete of no mean promise and , understandably , invitations to meetings out of the area were forthcoming . |
| 22 | SOME people are saying tonight is Ian Wright 's last chance to prove himself as an England striker . |
| 23 | He had advocated electricity nationalisation in the 1930s , and during the War ( as the TUC were drawn increasingly into the government consultative machine ) had distinguished himself as an administrator and committee-man of high repute with members of all political parties . |
| 24 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 25 | And a man who described himself as an animal right activist , but insisted that he should n't be idenfied , watched today 's court case closely . |
| 26 | But Mancini 's basic point — that Gloucester had set up a fake attack on himself as an excuse to deal with Hastings — seems eminently plausible . |
| 27 | But Mancini 's basic point — that Gloucester had set up a fake attack on himself as an excuse to deal with Hastings — seems eminently plausible . |
| 28 | He was in uniform , very much in the situation in which Lewis had found himself as an undergraduate at Univ . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , Tate saw himself as an Impressionist . ’ |
| 30 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |