Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little evidence about Ermentrude herself at the time of the marriage . |
| 2 | He designed a series of posters including one of Branson himself under the caption ‘ No One is Innocent ’ , an another bearing a swastika made of cannabis leaves , the Virgin logo and what had become a Sex Pistols ' slogan , ‘ Never trust a hippie ’ . |
| 3 | Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence . |
| 4 | It is obvious that her cares very deeply about the theatre and acting , from the teaching of drama itself to the condition of theatre countrywide . |
| 5 | Ironically , the society is having to fight against the forces of nature itself in the bid to stop the reedbed being swallowed by fast-encroaching willows and scrub which would destroy much of the area 's significance . |
| 6 | MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell . |
| 7 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 8 | At the present point in time there are those who are of the opinion that no sacrifice is too great for our democracy , least of all the sacrifice of democracy itself to the power of the judges and enslaving legal limitations . |
| 9 | Conviction oozes from every sentence like the very ichor of life itself from the metal life-support systems of the Bronze Giant of Fangorak . |
| 10 | The civilization founded on these existed in mature form in the United States of America in 1880 , and had just been extended , at last , to the whole of Europe itself outside the extreme south-eastern corner . |
| 11 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 12 | In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery . |
| 13 | Probably the best known Vulcanian deposit is one produced by an eruption of Vulcano itself in the 1880s . |
| 14 | The sting of this question was to some extent drawn for Schleiermacher himself by the fact that he so closely identified immediate self-consciousness with God-consciousness as to believe that he had found a real and solid bridge between the two sides of the matter . |
| 15 | In the 1986 film Round Midnight he starred as a jazz musician who , like Gordon himself in the Sixties , sought refuge in Europe . |
| 16 | She looked a little worn and bleary-eyed , though her long , lion-coloured hair shone like health itself in the brassy sunlight of mid-day . |
| 17 | It behaves just like Tit for Tat itself after the first move , but — this is what makes it technically nasty — it does defect on the very first move of the game . |
| 18 | Just as children are very familiar with drama itself through the dramatic fictions that they see enacted on television and on film , so too they have encountered the idea of still images in other contexts : their own family snapshots , freeze frame on the video recorder , sculptures , waxworks and comic strips . |
| 19 | She wanted to tell her that perhaps the plan — the dark colours , the new name — was n't necessary any more , that there was an awareness between herself and Tom today that almost made her believe he did share her feelings , but with Tom himself in the room , and Bill as well , and Mrs Porter coming in now with Faye 's mid-afternoon snack and a pot of tea for everyone , there was clearly no opportunity . |
| 20 | However , with God himself at the focus of our lives , we can rise above mere curiosity and focus in on the true purpose for reading the Bible . |
| 21 | This volume was thus very largely taken up with an exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity , not as a second-order theological construction , but as sketching the basis within God himself of the possibility and actuality of his making of himself known to us in jesus Christ . |
| 22 | This bias was no doubt at least partially a reflection of the haphazard organization of policing in Britain itself at the beginning of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | This year Farnborough also has a skate scene emerging from Farnborough itself for the first time since about 1981 . |
| 24 | In the end , several firms undertook penicillin production on a massive scale , but hardly any ever came to Florey himself for the clinical trials which he was desperate to extend . |
| 25 | There is no need to change this law , and as far as I am aware no need for Mr. Byran to distress himself upon the umpires ' behalf . |
| 26 | The programmes on the computers , also accessible to visitors to Pompeii itself in the small museum at Boscoreale , are the culmination of what is known as the Neapolis project . |
| 27 | Both local associations pointed unambiguously to slavery itself as the disruptive factor ; only with emancipation would ‘ a Population of turbulent Slaves [ be ] converted into one of peaceable Colonists ’ . |
| 28 | During his stay , he set to work himself on the principle divide et impera . |
| 29 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
| 30 | Lord Elphinstone had to content himself with the duke 's assurance that he ‘ would mention to those who mannage my affairs my being honoured with a letter from your Lordship & recommend unanimity upon this occasion … which I hope will be an inducement to the commissioners of supply to settle without varience ’ . |