Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself . |
| 2 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 3 | He picked up an old ornament : a serpent winding itself around a globe ; an appropriate image . |
| 4 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 5 | The story begins on a May morning in 1991 , when Brian Mattison awoke early to see a heron helping himself to a fish breakfast . |
| 6 | In theory , the EMS is a means by which the currencies of the EC are maintained at a stable exchange rate with one another ; in practice , it means all the weaker currencies aligning themselves to the strongest , the Deutsche Mark . |
| 7 | It also offers the spectacle ( increasingly common this season ) of crack British acting talent hurling itself down a lucrative drain . |
| 8 | We would like to se the political parties commiting themselves to an overhaul of the sentencing process to make it more rational and civilised . |
| 9 | Two parties presenting themselves as an alliance will , it is true , fare better than if they campaign separately . |
| 10 | Against her will her breasts swelled , hardened nipples forcing themselves against the cotton . |
| 11 | There are loads of Leed supporters in Goole but they seemed to be more i interested in the young kids chucking themselves in the water jump on the running track which was right by the pitch ! |
| 12 | So how would the mere existence of Labour Party membership cards in the North prevent the electorate voting themselves into a United Ireland if they so desired ? |
| 13 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 14 | But while Tony Lesser is once again listing the Treasury 's objections to the topics Jane and I have proposed for discussion papers , a picture suddenly comes into my mind , with the most painful vividness , of Summerchild dragging himself across the hard wet ground , on the morning of June 24th 1974 , to the locked gates of that yard behind the Admiralty . |
| 15 | The group issued an angry statement alleging that the authors are ‘ obsessive fans misrepresenting themselves as the authorised biographers of Nirvana ’ . |
| 16 | In Christianity , the problems in the emotional life of humanity are handled by one of the company of brothers offering himself as a sacrificial victim to the father , to redeem the brothers for the murder of the father — the original sin which haunts the brothers . |
| 17 | he had immediately checked into the Shelbourne , one of Dublin 's premier hotels , and spent the next hour soaking himself in a bath , washing away the grime of the rough sea-crossing . |
| 18 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 19 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 20 | On his way home to Philibert Place one day , Marco wanders through an alley to waste ground where a hunchbacked boy pushing himself on a makeshift trolley is reading to his ragged companions from a newspaper — about Samavia . |
| 21 | Later , after four years in detention during the Mau Mau Emergency , he worked for an Indian workshop in Nairobi establishing himself as the pioneer manufacturer of bicycle carriers and foreguards . |
| 22 | Very few films are about rape , although it crops up all over the place — from the narrative device launching an endless cycle of Death Wish movies , to general ’ scene-setting ’ in war movies and crime thrillers , or used with sublime insensitivity to illuminate ( male ) character : Robert De Niro raping his childhood sweetheart in Once Upon A Time In America , Bob Hoskins forcing himself on the maid in The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne . |
| 23 | I know it 's silly but I find it hard to take them seriously and really concentrate and not be distracted by the local cat cleaning himself on a window ledge or some such thing . |
| 24 | Lying on a pallet in the downstairs chamber , the deceased woman laid out upstairs , the only sounds came from the cat cleaning itself by the hearth and an owl hooting raucously outside . |
| 25 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 26 | Life is good … one can understand these people behind the lines resigning themselves to the war … |
| 27 | I took stock of the bees in the wisteria and the cat stretching itself under the table . |
| 28 | MR JOHN BROWNE , former Conservative MP for Winchester , who was ousted by his party and is now running against the Conservative candidate , is circulating election literature describing himself as the ‘ Conservative ’ and telling unsuspecting Tories not to ‘ split the vote ’ , writes Robert Shrimsley . |
| 29 | In many species the basic unit is the harem , with one dominant male surrounding himself with a number of breeding females . |
| 30 | While all this was going on , of course , Carol was flitting about the opposite side of the shop helping herself from the shelves and tossing things into the pushchair , which with the canopy zipped up was acting as an oversize shopping trolley . |