Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may find a stream , a cave , a factory , a prison you did not know was there but which insists upon itself as a landmark . |
| 2 | A nut-brown man by South Kensington standards , he is light-skinned in the West Indies : he is a Chinese Negro , who thinks of himself as a hakwai Chinee — hakwai , he explains , being ‘ Chinese for nigger ’ — and who has not failed to notice that Emily Brontë 's Heathcliff is rumoured to be the Emperor of China . |
| 3 | She laughs at herself as a girl again . |
| 4 | She refers to herself as a ‘ household technician ’ , ’ Laura snorted grimly . |
| 5 | She thinks of herself as a discursive fabric in which beliefs get lodged and are subsequently removed . |
| 6 | I 'm not sure , as she scowls at herself in the mirror , about the choice of films in which she contemplates a role . |
| 7 | ‘ The image you give ’ , Fraser tells Ilse , meaning the image she gives of himself as a boy , ‘ is one of dependency , extreme docility . |
| 8 | She gazes at herself in wonder . |
| 9 | ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ . |
| 10 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 11 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 12 | He refers to himself in the third person quite frequently , almost as if his stage persona is a separate being . |
| 13 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 14 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 15 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , he never lets anyone over the door and he sees to himself for the most part . |
| 17 | He smiles to himself in the mirror . |
| 18 | This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense . |
| 19 | He speaks of himself as a man who could have been a God . |
| 20 | Asks Laverne , subjecting the pond life he picks off himself to tight scrutiny . |
| 21 | He talks to himself in his room . |
| 22 | The only one is that constant crying is usually ‘ self-limiting ’ — that is , it stops by itself after running its course ; usually after no more than three to four months . |
| 23 | I mean , you know we , we can all be very er , er liberal minded and enlightened about every body else , but when it comes to ourselves with a , and there are some exceptions and , and , and you 've identified yourselves here amongst this hundred , but a lot of us if were absolutely honest we would like to change things I mean one way or another and we all do various things , I mean we certainly wash our hair and people say you do n't need to wash your hair , if you leave it long enough it 'll wash itself , I do n't know what else you do maybe you shave bits of this and wax bits of that and |