Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Not a beautiful picture of himself running into the sunset . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gilly had a vision of herself sailing around the living room of the foster home on her right foot like an ice skater . |
| 6 | Another vivid picture , this time of herself standing by the ford in fitzAlan 's arms , insinuated itself into Isabel 's mind . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A man and a woman watched as we came alongside with myself leaning over the side of the open bridge of Venturous . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | Her crisis had passed , leaving her feeling exhausted and somewhat short of breath ; it would not be difficult to allow Mitzi to rehearse her grievances against the male population without herself expanding on the subject , and thus let Mitzi believe that she was in agreement with her . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think anything could give me as much pleasure as watching a horse I 've bred and brought on myself performing at the top of his form . ’ |
| 15 | You see the thing is you can record and listen to yourself speaking at the same time ? |
| 16 | There are four possibilities which need to be covered : ( 1 ) that he is held out as a partner and is liable as such ; ( 2 ) that he is held out as a partner but is indemnified against liability as such ; ( 3 ) that steps are taken to ensure that he is not held out as a partner ; and ( 4 ) that , even though the original intention may have been as at ( 3 ) , he is in fact held out as a partner , either by the firm or by himself acting in the course of his work for the firm , in circumstances not initially contemplated by anyone . |