Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , to emphasise the personal and private nature of moral or immoral conduct is to emphasise the personal and private responsibility of the individual for his own actions , and this is a responsibility which a mature agent can properly be expected to carry for himself without the threat of punishment from the law . |
| 2 | At the same time as the Nun 's Priest is made to try to claim for himself in his tale the equivalent of : he , or Chaucer , reassures those who are able to share in the joke that the opposite is the case . |
| 3 | The treatment of Abdulkerim by Katib Celebi and his followers is consistent ( and interesting ) in so far as they rightly , one believes , place his Muftilik in the time of Mehmed II , in accordance with the and as opposed to the view of the unmodified traditional account ; but on the assumption that the available texts of Katib Celebi and Hezarfen are accurate , the writers connected with the Katib Celebi view appear to differ amongst themselves about the nature and timing of his Muftilik , possibly because Katib Celebi " s list is particularly cryptic and , at first sight , confused at this point . |
| 4 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 5 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 6 | I always tell such guys to try to look at themselves from behind ! |
| 7 | Gemma , 11 , found fending for herself in her west London home while her mother , 31 , was on holiday in Spain , was taken in by Hammersmith Council on February 1 after complaints that she had been on her own for two days . |
| 8 | She tried to reason with herself about this . |
| 9 | A rule of thumb is that investment in energy efficiency is expected to pay for itself in two years . |
| 10 | Last year , a passive solar collector on a house would have been expected to pay for itself in 12 to 15 years . |
| 11 | Investment in an agency , branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business . |
| 12 | Each young gentleman was provided with his own chamber-pot , which he was expected to empty for himself on the common midden , situated behind the houses . |
| 13 | One slight problem that Cognos has created for itself with Unix in Europe is its failure to recognise those lucrative government markets where the national champion is often the favourite — to date Cognos has declined to serve the ICL Plc , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Siemens AG environments . |
| 14 | Bob is advising Clinton how to cope when he leaves Stoke Mandeville in a couple of months time and has to fend for himself in his own home : |
| 15 | For those who want to cater for themselves in the fully equipped kitchenettes , there 's a supermarket right opposite the apartments . |
| 16 | However , his wife pointed out that Katy seemed no longer to approach him for attention — instead she had began to play by herself in very stereotyped and restricted ways . |
| 17 | The tenants ( foreros ) paid a customary quit rent to the owner of the dominium eminens or forista ; as in most parts of the world where such tenures obtained , tenants came to look on themselves as outright owners . |
| 18 | This woman also had a passion to visit Russia , and she seemed to look on herself as a sort of tramp reformer . |
| 19 | She had been nineteen when her mother died , old enough to notice how poor old Pa seemed to shrink inside himself at the time . |
| 20 | ‘ I have had to think about myself as an artist much more clearly through being in an alien environment , ’ says Tessa Waite , working in what she describes as ‘ a Victorian asylum in the middle of nowhere . |
| 21 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |
| 22 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 23 | The next stage is when they begin to think of themselves as workers in Britain and compare their lives with those of other workers , black and white . |
| 24 | Given time , they begin to think of themselves as our equals . |
| 25 | In one town , however , second wave fundholders had been told to fend for themselves by those in the first wave . |
| 26 | The overall conclusion to be drawn from the above list is that the marketing department , in particular , disturbs the routines that other departments like to set for themselves in order to achieve efficiency in their own organization . |
| 27 | Already we were beginning to talk among ourselves about the feasibility of a Hungarian-type reform to replace the central planning mechanism which Stalin had created in the 1930s . |
| 28 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 29 | It was at this period that I began to think about myself in the third person : Elizabeth is compassionate and considerate , she thinks how other people might feel . |
| 30 | Then she began to think to herself about which would be best , nasturtiums or sweet peas . |