Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not a beautiful picture of himself running into the sunset . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | I have already argued ( Chapter l ) that capitalist development does not of itself lead to the political unification of the working class . |
| 9 | We must choose which aspects of ourself to express to the world . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Gilly had a vision of herself sailing around the living room of the foster home on her right foot like an ice skater . |
| 12 | But she just spat in his face and went out , slamming the door so hard that a picture of herself fell off the wall . |
| 13 | Another vivid picture , this time of herself standing by the ford in fitzAlan 's arms , insinuated itself into Isabel 's mind . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A man and a woman watched as we came alongside with myself leaning over the side of the open bridge of Venturous . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All these factors were intensified by rural population growth , although it was not in itself caused by the family-based allowance scheme . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Here we can see a rather different perspective on the human alienation which Lukács describes ; in Foucault 's account , Marxism 's attempt to reproduce the totality in itself falls within the terms of his argument by which totalizing theories of history are based on an anxiety derived from the break-up of its unity . |
| 21 | could in itself account for the presence of high cAMP values . |
| 22 | This section is possible precisely because the unity of the whole is an expressive totality , that is ‘ a totality all of whose parts are so many ‘ total parts ’ each expressing the others , and each expressing the social totality that contains them , because each in itself contains in the immediate form of its expression the essence of the totality itself ’ ( 94 ) . |
| 23 | Most days she would , sooner or later , walk down the lawn to examine her plants and I learned to wait until she had done this before myself settling in the summer-house . |
| 24 | But it was n't until a fortnight after the accident , when I took it upon myself to see to the downstairs — particularly the kitchen which was in a state — ready for Auntie 's visit next day , that the riddle was solved . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to see some patients in Santa Barbara , and I thought you 'd like to come , since you took it upon yourself to interfere in the Freitas family 's life . ’ |
| 26 | Projects were therefore not in themselves initiated by the ERDF ; member states put forward projects to receive assistance and the limited funds available were allocated on the basis of predetermined national quotas . |
| 27 | If his plan worked , he would have an hour or two to himself dawdling along the reef , which was a better way of spending the afternoon than acting as nanny to four Latinos . |
| 28 | One day , thought Mr Wolski to himself looking around the Zoo , this place will no longer exist , but long before then I will have left it , oh yes ! |
| 29 | Stephen signalled to Orson , the head waiter , who almost fell over himself to get to the Prime Minister . |
| 30 | Down itself comes from the breasts of birds as a by-product — they 're farmed mainly in China for food . |