Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cast and crew were situated in the picturesque summer tourist trap of St Ives where they virtually took over the comfortable olde-worlde Tregenna Castle Hotel , while Peckinpah rented a small cottage for himself on the moor . |
| 2 | The pity of it was that she had n't made a bigger part for herself in the night 's scenario ; she was getting polite nods and hellos from people that she already knew slightly , and curious glances from most of the others . |
| 3 | He knew that he would be rash to expect everyone to obey him all the time ; he had secured the Moghul throne for himself by the skill with which he had played off his brothers against one another , and he distrusted most of the people around him . |
| 4 | De Gaulle engineered a majority for himself on the CFLN and promptly objected to Giraud 's claim to combine the functions of Commander-in-Chief with the co-presidency . |
| 5 | Before 1234 he had supervised the construction of a model dwelling-place for himself within the cathedral close , the profits from whose sale he later put towards Salisbury 's fabric fund . |
| 6 | Nice and easy for those of you just beginning to try your hand at intarsia and it 's not too difficult to work out the chart for yourself with the many aids available . |
| 7 | The fact that he also made a little money for himself in the process was considered only reasonable by the majority of fans . |
| 8 | He would , for instance , secretly buy 30,000 of a stock for himself on the account . |
| 9 | Cohen-Solal 's identification of three strategies , expertise , orthodoxy and prestige , enabling these three prominent communists to carve out a particular niche for themselves within the party structure , can not be faulted . |
| 10 | Norway 's prospects of joining the EC might be harmed by its decision , if the EC were successful in demanding a seat for itself on the IWC . |
| 11 | Robson is , however , unlikely to start the game as both sides aim to put some daylight between themselves at the top of the table . |
| 12 | Marlowe refuses to recognise the fact making a living for oneself in the countryside involves strenuous work and long hours of toil in order to reap the rewards afterwards . |
| 13 | I did not understand German , and was not interested in the photograph of myself at the top , but bottom left , was a small black-and-white snapshot of Joan and the children . |
| 14 | The following morning , after breakfast , a bruised Clare cut a photograph of herself from the local newspaper ; luckily , her face was totally obscured by the banner , which had wrapped itself around her like a winding sheet . |
| 15 | One reason must be the inevitable distancing of oneself from the intensity and nearness of the experience . |
| 16 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 17 | Chasseguet-Smirgel ( 1985 ) suggests that a woman 's ego-ideal is constructed first by identification with the mother , and only then by a redefinition of herself as the father 's wife . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 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 | But also , in this reductio ad absurdum of masculine sexuality , men become redundant as the women threaten to perform phallic violence on themselves in the attempt to forestall male violence ( Genevora to the duellists ) : ‘ The first blow given betwixt you , sheathes these swords/In one anothers bosomes ’ ( 177 — 8 ) . |
| 22 | She is the one who will have devoted the greater part of her married life to the job of child-raising and who will have invested a large part of herself in the children . |
| 23 | The British in their quiet way think of themselves as the salt of the earth , and quite rightly too , but where matters of culture are concerned they do have this tendency to think that the best things happen abroad and at best can be borrowed from abroad . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the mere fact that money is paid under protest will not give rise of itself to the inference of such an agreement ; though it may form part of the evidence from which it may be inferred that the payee did not intend to close the transaction : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 25 | Metaphor is a perspective which re-figures the world and the person 's experience of himself in the world . |
| 26 | Detached from the orbit of the old Raymondin counts of Toulouse , they were carving out a quasi-autonomous sphere of influence for themselves along the Pyrenean frontier . |
| 27 | As unemployment has risen , more and more women have been forced to invent work for themselves in the informal sector , in street sales or occasional domestic work . |
| 28 | Lewis complained that he could not see any personal relevance for himself in the story of Christ . |
| 29 | The student should now score the passage for himself on the lines indicated . |
| 30 | And I daresay she thinks she 's succeeded — done me out of my rights and fixed up a snug home for herself for the rest of her days ! |