Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [vb pp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Hitler himself referred to the S.A.S. as ‘ so-called commandos who are recruited in part from common criminals released from prison … captured S.A.S. troops must be handed over at once to the nearest Gestapo unit … these men are very dangerous , and the presence of S.A.S. troops must be immediately reported … they must be ruthlessly exterminated . ’ |
| 2 | The novelist has himself referred to the self-generating quality of these works : he seems to provide the reader with a metaphor of the construction of narrative . |
| 3 | We know that he himself referred to the daunting shadow of Beethoven 's greatness — and we can assume that public expectation was just as daunting , given that he was regarded as Beethoven 's heir . |
| 4 | Drew himself added to the excitement by giving interviews from his luxurious hotel room at the Great Western . |
| 5 | Perhaps he had got himself moved to the bigger town , or perhaps he had gone home to London as some of the children had done . |
| 6 | He had explained about Ari , vehemently disagreed with Zambia 's suggestion he should make himself known to the girl , and tortured himself out loud with conjectures about how Roirbak and Leila might , at this very moment , be destroying Ari 's abilities beneath their feet . |
| 7 | While still in his teens , and with an audacity that marked his whole career , he made himself known to the officers conducting the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain , who recommended him to an MP for county Mayo , Ireland , as capable of providing the Mayo grand jury with an accurate county map . |
| 8 | At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder . |
| 9 | At the age of 30 , he finds himself consigned to the sidelines without even the consolation of a drop down the soccer ladder . |
| 10 | At the end of September 1949 , therefore , Smith was himself seconded to the BEA to work on sorting out this problem , and he was in fact to stay , in a sustained attempt to work out a better contracts system , thus further strengthening the BEA 's management of the construction programme . |
| 11 | It is consequently vital , when assessing Nizan 's communist novels , to bear in mind the importance that Nizan himself attached to the transition date of 1934 . |
| 12 | In this vision — a kind of ‘ flash-forward ’ in fantasy — Jesus sees himself married to the Magdalene ( for whom he has lusted all through the book ) and fathering a family upon her . |
| 13 | Robinson established a close relationship with Monck and was himself returned to the Convention Parliament for London . |
| 14 | He himself returned to the kitchens , where the heat was now making the sweat run from everyone 's faces . |
| 15 | The Glossopteris flora was only one of several widespread late Palaeozoic floras and was itself limited to the then Gondwana region . |
| 16 | However , in our application , the aircraft , which has no undercarriage of its own , travels on a trolley which is itself tethered to the rotating pylon head . |
| 17 | But in addition , the strategy LDDC chose to adopt has itself contributed to the problems they now face : |
| 18 | The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells . |
| 19 | The material is cut to shape and fixed to a timber framework , itself fixed to the opening . |
| 20 | Piaget , however , asserts in the introduction to his work that ‘ We shall rather show that the acquisition of language is itself subordinated to the workings of a symbolic function which can be seen in the development of imitation and play as well as in that of verbal mechanisms ’ ( 1962 : 1–2 ; see Vygotsky 1978 for a contrary view ) . |
| 21 | Ashi found herself rooted to the spot in disbelief as she watched the threshing legs of her daughter . |
| 22 | Would she , Celia , then find herself relegated to the nursery ? |
| 23 | The other teenage boys in the room were obviously heated with drugs and talk of women , for Amal was pounced upon by several boys at once and found herself pinned to the floor . |
| 24 | These are themselves limited to the provision of various forms of injunctions , which are only effective if there is a power of arrest attached , and only enforcable by the police . |
| 25 | So until further notice from me , you are to consider yourself confined to the Battalion area — that means the Officers ' Mess and your company billet — except when on duty of course . |
| 26 | Skirtings are generally nailed into place to timber packing pieces , called grounds , which are themselves secured to the masonry behind with large cut nails . |
| 27 | With the passage of time , however , the owning institutions have themselves grown to the point where the costs and risks are something they can manage for themselves , at which point the freedom and other advantages of sole ownership have taken over . |
| 28 | Neither the servants nor the king were amused by Pecham 's decree ; nor indeed were some bishops who had themselves risen to the episcopate on a mounting tide of benefices with and without cure of souls , and who were even now rewarding their own diocesan officers with a plurality of cures . |
| 29 | Most choreographers either have other responsibilities ( as a company director , for instance ) or are themselves tied to the strict daily schedule of a performer . |
| 30 | Busy mothers ma be particularly glad of an opportunity to listen at home of they find themselves tied to the house . |