Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could at any time have obtained for himself the beneficial enjoyment of the whole income . |
| 2 | And the Rechem case comes to Scotland as the Judge sees for himself the former factory . |
| 3 | Having discovered for himself the great value of reading good books , he gave his writings to his people . |
| 4 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 5 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 6 | They also demanded that President Guillermo Endara Gallimany , 56 , make a personal visit to the old part of the city to see for himself the severe level of poverty the population was being forced to endure . |
| 7 | Sometimes he even managed to keep for himself the little piece of cotton-wool that she soaked in perfume so that he could rub the henna stains from her skin . |
| 8 | The term proportionality does moreover not resolve in and of itself the actual standard of review . |
| 9 | ‘ Each suburban wife , as she made the beds , shopped for groceries , ate peanut-butter sandwiches with her children , chauffeured Cubs and Brownies , lay beside her husband at night , was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question , ‘ Is this all ? ’ ’ |
| 10 | Therefore , each church must work out for itself the best way and time to measure ‘ membership ’ which most accurately and helpfully reflects their situation . |
| 11 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 12 | in the Court of Appeal , ‘ in view of the historic struggle of the legislature to secure for itself the sole power to levy money upon the subject , its complete success in that struggle , the elaborate means adopted by the representative House to control the amount , the conditions and the purpose of the levy , the circumstances would be remarkable indeed which would induce the court to believe that the legislature had sacrificed all the well-known checks and precautions , and , not in express words , but merely by implication , had entrusted a Minister of the Crown with undefined and unlimited powers of imposing charges upon the subject for purposes connected with his department . ’ |
| 13 | However , rather than having the guests whispering conspiratorially amongst themselves the unmentionable secret that this is a second marriage , some speakers prefer a more direct and honest approach . |
| 14 | Accordingly , in September 1854 Britain dispatched an expeditionary field force to the Persian port of Bushire , with Rigby as interpreter and , later , superintendent of police — with himself the only policeman in the town . |
| 15 | As explained at our meeting , MAS 's involvement in due diligence tends to be limited to briefing the investigating accountants on the outcome of the key features review and reviewing with yourselves the due diligence findings , to consider how these may impact on price and your warranty and indemnity requirements . |
| 16 | Leila closed her eyes , visualising for herself the pleasant warmth of Ari 's fantasy world . |
| 17 | She had chosen for herself the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes , and she denounced herself for a masochist . |
| 18 | He never doubts that it is possible or desirable for the critic to recreate in himself the mental condition of the author ; he only recognizes that it is difficult . |
| 19 | Which was true , though that morning , as he had spied on the French , Sharpe had recognized in himself the undeniable pleasure of doing his job well . |
| 20 | When you are interrupted in contemplative devotion , says Hilton , do n't be angry and depressed but This is the mode by which man following a mixed life realises in himself the creative love of God — the fire of love that Rolle talked of as consuming all that is dark . |
| 21 | And if Jesus incorporated in himself the double role of royal and priestly Messiah , he would indeed have been a figure worthy of such adherence . |
| 22 | Jesus is therefore not simply the human instrument of God 's purposes , nor simply a man responding to divine grace : he is God come as man in order to work out and establish in himself the true destiny of man in friendship and communion with God . |
| 23 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 24 | That means both that there is a dialectical meaning of the practical ensemble … and that each singular event totalizes in itself the practical ensemble in the infinite richness of its singularity ’ ( II , 26 ) . |
| 25 | If , on the other hand , the obstacle is of such a kind as to jeopardize the integration of the market , it may seriously be doubted whether it is still proportionate to be in itself the legitimate objective pursued by the measure . |
| 26 | In itself the dim complacency of gossip and cards at ‘ our club ’ would seem harmless , familiar , merely social ; but ‘ in itself ’ denatures The Possessed where groupings dissolve or collapse into each other , and where the ‘ merely ’ social has no place . |
| 27 | Moreover , he intended to take on himself the national leadership of the party thus created , which would be called Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista ( FET y de las JONS ) . |
| 28 | I read the other day a well praised first novel in which the narrator — who is both sexually inexperienced and an amateur of French literature — comically rehearses to himself the best way to kiss a girl without being rebuffed : ‘ With a slow , sensual , irresistible strength , draw her gradually towards you while gazing into her eyes as if you had just been given a copy of the first , suppressed edition of Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 29 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 30 | It seems reasonable to assume that Oswiu certainly brought into subjection to himself the Pictish kingdom of Fortriu ( between the Forth and the Tay ) , for Bridei , the son of Bili , king of Strathclyde , and Ecgfrith 's cousin ( HB ch. 57 ) , who became king of the Picts on the expulsion of Drest and later fought against Ecgfrith , is described specifically in the Irish annals as ‘ king of Fortriu ’ at his death in 692 ( AU s.a . |