Example sentences of "[noun] of [pn reflx] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every gesture , each movement has something planned , even the way he arranges himself in a chair , his hands behind his head , catching glimpses of himself in the polished surfaces , squinting at his reflection , all with an inquisitive vanity . |
| 2 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 3 | We need a conception of ourselves in the universe not as the master species but as the servant species : as the one being given responsibility for the whole and for the good of the whole . |
| 4 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 5 | Lacan shows how the recognition of ourselves in the image of the face is based on a misrecognition , since we perceive the face as our own when in fact it is produced in the image outside ourselves . |
| 6 | She is the one who will have devoted the greater part of her married life to the job of child-raising and who will have invested a large part of herself in the children . |
| 7 | Metaphor is a perspective which re-figures the world and the person 's experience of himself in the world . |
| 8 | The mature glider pilot would never hesitate to make a fool of himself in the interests of safety . |
| 9 | Man goes out into the world and brings back what a family needs to survive but he does n't find a reflection of himself in the home as a woman does . ’ |
| 10 | Two hours later , full of beer and bravado , Harry contemplated a reflection of himself in the mirror behind the bar of the Glue pot Inn and calculated that , even when sobriety had returned to drain away his courage , he would not change his mind . |
| 11 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 12 | ‘ I should be mortified if I thought I 'd missed a chance to do him a mischief , but it 'd be a cold day in hell before I 'd make a spectacle of myself in the market place . ’ |
| 13 | The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) . |
| 14 | If we try to identify the media pressed into the service of God 's revelation of himself in the Bible , there is an astonishing variety . |
| 15 | Filaments linked living beings with the seeds of themselves in the deep-down ooze . |
| 16 | Is not this how we see God revealed in the record of Himself in the Bible ? |
| 17 | Louis XIV and his admirals had , meanwhile , after the Battle of La Hogue , licensed numerous ‘ corsairs ’ to make a nuisance of themselves in the Channel and North Sea , some of whom , actually held naval rank and had guns — up to 50 or 60 in the larger ships — lent them by the French navy . |
| 18 | The sufferers may not be able to see themselves but they can see each other and , by identifying features of themselves in the others , they gain insight into themselves and into their own disease . |
| 19 | Waugh hated visions of himself in the mirror . |
| 20 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |
| 21 | When you catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror , what do you really see ? |
| 22 | She sat up , splashing her face with water , catching a glimpse of herself in the steam-clouded mirror . |
| 23 | As she turned away , she caught a glimpse of herself in the bedroom mirror , and paused to take a longer , critical look . |
| 24 | What did that do to me as a person , to my sense of myself in the Christian church ? |
| 25 | It was n't until the weekend that he started to pine for some entertainment other than the sight of himself in the bathroom mirror . |
| 26 | I caught sight of myself in the peeling mirror : long thin legs , blue from the cold , clashing with the bright pink mini-dress which began at my neck and finished at my knickers . |
| 27 | I caught sight of myself in the peeling mirror : long thin legs , blue from the cold clashing with the bright pink mini-dress which began at my neck and finished at my knicker legs … |
| 28 | I caught sight of myself in the mirror . ’ |
| 29 | Molly caught sight of herself in the mirror , standing beside her daughter . |
| 30 | As Blanche snatched up the telephone and listened to the reassuring hum of the dialling tone , she caught sight of herself in the mirror on the wall : the shimmer of sweat on her forehead , eyes wild , face haggard and pale , hair stormy and unkempt , knuckles bruised and sore . |