Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An executive might have a limited opportunity to see for himself/herself conditions in a foreign country . |
| 2 | John was confident enough then to leave Flynn to it and to go off himself to look at the proposed routes of the Waterford & limerick and the Waterford & kilkenny lines , both of which had been authorized by Parliament last year but neither of which had yet gone to tender . |
| 3 | As in a Hammer horror film , the anticipation of something dreadful provides the engine to this dream — the seven bearded men 's appalling appearance was not for instance immediately apparent , and even though they removed his clothes and started to eat , there was no explicit imagery of himself implicated in the cannibalistic orgy , tasting flesh — presumably his own . |
| 4 | The bishop had asked whether Huxley would prefer to think of himself descended from an ape on his grandfather 's or his grandmother 's side , thereby touching the sensitive nerve of female ancestry . |
| 5 | In the expansive lounge , with its wide-angle view across the City , Normski absently manipulates the television image of himself stored on a tape of Dance Energy , watching as he clicks forward , frame by frame , until his face fills the screen . |
| 6 | Napoleon III 's ministers had worked hard to bring about the visit — not merely because it was in support of the Emperor 's policy but also , it was hoped , to distract him from his privately announced intention of himself going to the Crimea . |
| 7 | To begin with , after the attack on him at the Lambeth Baths hall , his view of himself changed in a literal sense . |
| 8 | Not a beautiful picture of himself running into the sunset . |
| 9 | Somewhere out there Michael Wayland is saying to his wife , ‘ God , when what's-that-man's-name began telling that enormously long story about how he made a fool of himself crawling round the floor on his hands and knees , which he obviously found so funny , I thought I 'd die . ’ |
| 10 | Accordingly , the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a government exists as the government of a state are : ( a ) whether it is the constitutional government of the state ; ( b ) the degree , nature and stability of administrative control , if any , that it of itself exercises over the territory of the state ; ( c ) whether Her Majesty 's Government has any dealings with it and if so what is the nature of those dealings ; and ( d ) in marginal cases , the extent of international recognition that it has as the government of the state . |
| 11 | Much that he says about divisions in the human psyche is reflected in pale form in the Hindu sacred books of the Upanishads ( which is hardly surprising , since White Face claims that all the world 's knowledge of itself emanated from the ‘ Other Side ’ during the ice age before last , when Other Siders went out like missionaries over the globe , reaching as far as Hindustan ) . |
| 12 | These passages in my view admirably define what is meant by colore officii and effectively dispose of any suggestion that because the person making the demand holds some official position that of itself amounts to a form of compulsion . |
| 13 | I have already argued ( Chapter l ) that capitalist development does not of itself lead to the political unification of the working class . |
| 14 | The first was that a case such as the present was so rare that it could not of itself call for a fundamental reformulation of the underlying principle — a point which I find unimpressive , when I consider that our task is essentially to do justice between the parties in the particular case before us . |
| 15 | We must choose which aspects of ourself to express to the world . |
| 16 | Her eyes blurred ; she blinked to clear them , and saw a faint reflection of herself swimming in the rock , cast there by the spear-light . |
| 17 | Gilly had a vision of herself sailing around the living room of the foster home on her right foot like an ice skater . |
| 18 | But she just spat in his face and went out , slamming the door so hard that a picture of herself fell off the wall . |
| 19 | Another vivid picture , this time of herself standing by the ford in fitzAlan 's arms , insinuated itself into Isabel 's mind . |
| 20 | Hence photographs of herself taken by a lover look like lots of different women . |
| 21 | It reflects a conception of themselves inherited from the theory of their nature and place in a slave society , a theory they shared with the slave owners , and from whom they learned it . |
| 22 | It meant that the Greeks expected the Jews not to translate their holy books , but to produce an account of themselves according to the current methods and categories of ethnography . |
| 23 | This picture of myself develops from a myriad of experiences , particularly from the feedback I get from other people . |
| 24 | It acted as a retreat house and training centre for people attached to the Society of Saint Sylvester but , under Racy 's leadership , it had made a name for itself specialising in an area of the church 's work which Theodora thought was undervalued . |
| 25 | Easier , he says , for a zonal defender like himself to switch to a marking game than for an Italian marker to change to zonal defence , ‘ because a zoner is all positional play . ’ |
| 26 | If a variable x(t) is plotted against itself delayed by an appropriate time lag T , then x(t) plotted against x(t+T) will give a point for a sink , and a single closed loop for a limit cycle . |
| 27 | A man and a woman watched as we came alongside with myself leaning over the side of the open bridge of Venturous . |
| 28 | Thus , although W. R. T. Skinner of the Yorkshire Electric Power Company was tarred with the company 's extreme anti-union reputation ( and not wanted by Citrine or the new Yorkshire Board ) the chairman-designate of the South Eastern Area Board was able to persuade Gaitskell to make him his deputy chairman , a position in which Skinner served loyally and efficiently for more than a decade , before himself succeeding to the chairmanship of that Board . |
| 29 | All these factors were intensified by rural population growth , although it was not in itself caused by the family-based allowance scheme . |
| 30 | Merton 's ( 1938 ) attempt to explain crime as a response to anomie — the disjuncture between cultural goals of success and legitimate opportunity structures through which success might be realized — has been reproduced over 110 times , a fact which in itself testifies to the importance of this analysis . |