Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the public took the opportunity to see for themselves in a unique open day . |
| 2 | However , the problem is that , if this is true , there is nothing whatever that I , in my capacity as a subject of experiences , can coherently and unequivocally say about myself as a corporeal subject ( not even that I do have a body ) ; and hence that , strictly speaking , the theory itself can not be clearly stated ! |
| 3 | Also , I believe most students prefer to be introduced to new ideas which they can explore for themselves with a sense of adventure , rather than be led on a Cook 's Tour with every fact and statistic recited . |
| 4 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 5 | Carrefour sat on a low wall that stretched out from the side of a building , leaning his back against the building 's wall and tootling to himself on a child 's flute . |
| 6 | He had often , in their earlier correspondence , spoken of a test or ideal that he wished to impose on himself as a rein on his passionate temperament and his over-eager response to physical beauty and joy . |
| 7 | He referred to himself as a Glasgow businessman . |
| 8 | It is a method of RE which focuses on pupils ' own capacity to relate to themselves at a deeper level — to their own authentic feelings and insights . |
| 9 | curled on himself like a wild creature , |
| 10 | Piggy believed that he had overcome his disabilities and looked at himself in a very different way from the other boys . |
| 11 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 12 | His books must sell , but he does not think of himself as an author . |
| 13 | No one would think of himself as an active non-smoker inclined to melancholy if that was n't encouraged , even demanded , by the form . |
| 14 | With the help of his neighbours and by studying every relevant historical record that he could lay his hands on , Gough was able to trace the personal history of every family in his parish — often through several generations — and to show , incidentally , that intermarriage between the long-established families strengthened the bonds that made people think of themselves as a special community somehow different from all the others . |
| 15 | Did you think of yourself as a classical actor in those days ? |
| 16 | ( How far do you really think of yourself as a housewife ? ) |
| 17 | When a respondent , in reply to the ‘ who am I ? ’ question of the Twenty Statements Test writes ‘ I am a man ’ , ‘ I am a student ’ … it is reasonable to believe that we have far more solid knowledge of the attitudes which organize and direct his behaviour than if , on a checklist and among other questions , we had asked ‘ do you think of yourself as a man ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Do you think of yourself as a student ? ’ |
| 19 | Do you think of yourself as a latent graffiti artist ? |
| 20 | At least now I know that perhaps one day we might get a car — even save up for a house — and that 's something to look forward to … so I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 21 | I think of myself as a housewife , but I do n't think of myself as a cabbage . |
| 22 | I do think of myself as a housewife . |
| 23 | I do n't really think of myself as a mother . |
| 24 | I did not think of myself as a racist but my experience of working in Ghana was making me irritable and critical , the first step on the way to making racist judgments . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | So he thinks of himself as a warm-hearted , caring human being . |
| 27 | ( Who , after all , ever thinks of himself as a bourgeois ? ) |
| 28 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 29 | Primarily it thinks of itself as a software concern . |
| 30 | No matter how much of a slavey she might really be , a chambermaid never thinks of herself as a maid . |