Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We can hear that for ourselves in the records that have been issued of Karajan rehearsing the late Mozart symphonies or the Finale of Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony .
2 ‘ When we decided to start Headline , we felt that we had to identify a position for ourselves in the market , to persuade agents to bring their authors to us , authors to come to us , booksellers to support us .
3 And I think that our concern is to try and see how that can be improved and , and possibly the underlying reason for that is that erm we all feel that unless we take it seriously , the kind of disasters that increasingly affect developing countries , and try to make our own assistance more rational , more respectful in a way of , of them and their cultures , then I think we 're storing up an enormous amount of trouble for ourselves in the future .
4 Allen could look after himself in the forest .
5 She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences .
6 When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time .
7 As he was doing that , he saw the paragraph about himself in The Stage and planted his shoe over it .
8 It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ .
9 Lewis complained that he could not see any personal relevance for himself in the story of Christ .
10 Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest .
11 In 1829–30 , like his father before him , he served as mayor of Kendal , and in addition to the house he had built for himself in the town ( c .1823 ) he had a country property in Lindale , Lancashire , which he inherited from his father , and he later built an occasional residence in nearby Grange-over-Sands .
12 In the summer of 1939 Boulestin left as usual to spend his holidays in the house he had built for himself in the Landes .
13 A sort of cross between Kurt Cobain and a Fraggle , James has already made a name for himself in the office for dancing around and waving his arms wildly while he talks , not forgetting the regular swishing back of that blond mop .
14 The fact that he also made a little money for himself in the process was considered only reasonable by the majority of fans .
15 We have already seen how Galileo argued , on theological grounds , for the differentiation of scientific and theological propositions , and how he created difficulties for himself in the process .
16 Wealth , power , dames : Daine could n't have Dreamed up a better situation for himself in the City if he had been trying .
17 This is the story of Okonkwo , the strong son of a feckless father who builds a position of respect and authority for himself in the tribe — only to see things fall apart as he is undermined by the arrival of whites .
18 I thought he 'd find a way for himself in the end .
19 We need a conception of ourselves in the universe not as the master species but as the servant species : as the one being given responsibility for the whole and for the good of the whole .
20 Lacan shows how the recognition of ourselves in the image of the face is based on a misrecognition , since we perceive the face as our own when in fact it is produced in the image outside ourselves .
21 The mature glider pilot would never hesitate to make a fool of himself in the interests of safety .
22 Man goes out into the world and brings back what a family needs to survive but he does n't find a reflection of himself in the home as a woman does . ’
23 Waugh hated visions of himself in the mirror .
24 Two hours later , full of beer and bravado , Harry contemplated a reflection of himself in the mirror behind the bar of the Glue pot Inn and calculated that , even when sobriety had returned to drain away his courage , he would not change his mind .
25 It was n't until the weekend that he started to pine for some entertainment other than the sight of himself in the bathroom mirror .
26 Too often after he had seen her , he felt restless , driven to correct this unhappy image of himself in the arms of another .
27 The businessman should be better able to take care of himself in the transaction , and therefore should require little protection .
28 He should try to think of himself in the kind of situations which the drill sentences suggest .
29 First , the patient 's failure to take care of himself in the knowledge that death will result sooner rather than otherwise — and this would apply to the aged as well as to the terminally ill — may be treated as suicide , despite what has been said .
30 The old man recognised something of himself in the picture , stepped back and narrowed his eyes .
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