Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [coord] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We find the world nearly empty of images and accounts with which we can prepare ourselves or comfort ourselves , or find a mirror of our exaltation or grief . ’ |
| 2 | This is most emphatically not the same as blaming ourselves or burdening ourselves with an unnecessary load of guilt . |
| 3 | As we all of us want to escape ourselves and remain ourselves , want to leave ourselves behind and take ourselves with us , want the world transfigured and yet to remain ourselves in a transfigured world . |
| 4 | Express ourselves and to make ourselves understood by others . |
| 5 | Staff and customers watched in horror as he poured the petrol over himself and set himself alight . |
| 6 | Lucker , who isolates himself and drowns himself out , who does n't take care with me . |
| 7 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 8 | In general meetings the Director attracted all problems to himself and found himself in difficulties . |
| 9 | ‘ In the same way in which a person 's job can say something about the way he values himself and sees himself as being valued , there was considerable talk [ in the group ] about assessment and much time was devoted to the problems of time and motion and job evaluation . |
| 10 | Now admittedly , the T four bacterial is a very simple organism , it ca n't leap about so it does n't need senses or a brain to direct it , or muscles or anything like that , it ca n't repair itself or change itself once it 's been made , therefore it does n't need to digest food , er to , to have an immune system or anything like that to repair itself or put itself to rights , it does n't need anything like that . |
| 11 | Now admittedly , the T four bacterial is a very simple organism , it ca n't leap about so it does n't need senses or a brain to direct it , or muscles or anything like that , it ca n't repair itself or change itself once it 's been made , therefore it does n't need to digest food , er to , to have an immune system or anything like that to repair itself or put itself to rights , it does n't need anything like that . |
| 12 | For all that it remains an object which can not move itself or save itself from destruction . |
| 13 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 14 | It never varies : beginning with an origin or a centre that divides itself and leaves itself , an historical circle is described , which is degenerative in direction but progressive and compensatory in effect . |
| 15 | He was her sole reason for getting up at all , the only incentive to clothe and feed herself and drag herself from her bedroom where she would much prefer to stay . |
| 16 | To ask for more for herself and put herself in a position of coming first felt too greedy and dangerous . |
| 17 | That I find myself or let myself be moved implies consciousness of being moved . |
| 18 | They ensure , for example , that meals are eaten at the right time , that appointments are kept , that a daily routine is adhered to and that patients do not neglect themselves or put themselves in danger . |
| 19 | As far as she was aware , no one had cut themselves or pricked themselves with a needle . |
| 20 | Neither future generations nor the animals can speak for themselves or defend themselves . |
| 21 | I stood outside myself and saw myself there , a poor creature whose energies were based on a slender set of assumptions , whose very identity was a chancy affair of chemicals and accidents . |
| 22 | Within Royal Ordnance which I have resumed the responsibility for I do n't know , Mr Chairman , I convened a meeting of the convenors to introduce myself and to familiarize myself with the movement and the industry only for the company to announce thirteen hundred redundancies , as we were meeting . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , my first efforts must be to attract attention to myself and have myself removed from this common Bedlam in which I was shut . |
| 24 | A towel that I 've put over the radiator to get warm so I can wrap it cosily round myself and hug myself dry . |
| 25 | In developing an image , you and your workers , professional or voluntary , have to swallow your pride , smile at yourselves and put yourselves in second place to getting the message across — not easy , not often said , but true ! |
| 26 | turns out to be five foot two , dark hair and really not all that good looking after all , and so the problem with the advertising is that you know how one person sees themselves and advertises themselves not always the way they actually appear so its er pitfall |
| 27 | themselves and cut themselves and for , for Allah and whatnot hit and he had two policemen , now if they had , they 're , they 're not allowed to stop you and ask for your identification unless they have policeman with them , but they can arrest you and take you to their police station and they can be quite intimidating and , but they were going round , there was American service in there who have little cards written on it , they said they do n't have to cover their heads they , they 're allowed to do just as well as they please |
| 28 | I think young folk now are much more ready to express themselves and express themselves in public . |
| 29 | ‘ It took a war to compel the British to look at themselves and find themselves interesting , ’ Dilys Powell was later to remark . |
| 30 | When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves , they are not wise . ’ |