Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pn reflx] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Faced with the same claims about the effect of words like " fair " , the courts today apply a doctrine of " mistake " which precludes all review of the expert 's analysis , unless the expert values the wrong shares or asks himself the wrong question about concepts such as fairness : see Chapter 13 .
2 She knew that , even as she knew that , whatever price had to be paid , she would rather pay it than deny herself the overwhelming need coursing through her .
3 By the end of that season , when he won his first championship by a large margin , I had little doubt who had achieved the triumph : Niki is no braggart , but in the first of many longish talks , he explained to me that his nature was such that he really just could n't stand the second-rate ; and if you saw the second-rate around you , you had a clear choice — either you cleared out and found yourself the first-rate or you simply demanded that second-rate people became first-rate .
4 When there were not games he disappeared into the library and found himself the only person in the building .
5 Nevertheless , the local historian will find it useful to think of his chosen parish or neighbourhood in terms of broad categories such as ‘ open-field arable ’ or ‘ wood-pasture ’ or ‘ fenland edge ’ and to set himself the fundamental task of understanding how people adapted themselves to their physical environment .
6 She wondered rather wildly for a moment if they would both refuse to let go and imagined herself the unwilling participant in an unlikely tug of war , but Bernard took one look at Alain and released her .
7 If you take your guitar to your local music shop and try out their range of pedals , the chances are that you will find something to do the job and save yourself the substantial cost of a new set of pickups .
8 He was listening to old Legion marching songs and giving himself the Nazi salute in the mirror .
9 Once you understand the basics of what the technology can provide you need to carefully consider your own situation and ask yourself the following questions :
10 Always check the final composition before the photograph is taken and ask yourself the following questions :
11 Here he was able to stand back from the onrush of western man and ask himself the real questions of life and meaning ; get his young life , full and successful as it had been , into perspective .
12 The Lithuanian Communist Party declared its independence from the Soviet CP in December 1989 , and renamed itself the Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party ( DLP ) in December 1990 [ see p. 37921 ] , but was banned on Aug. 23 , 1991 [ see p. 38373 ] .
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