Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though one is lost and another damaged , the survivor is sent off into space with the forest when the scientist destroys himself with his ship to conceal the fact that the forest still exists . |
| 2 | In the 1629 session he told the Commons that ‘ religion offers itself to your first consideration at this time ’ , and reproached the Speaker for undue readiness to obey the king 's orders . |
| 3 | Mummy blames herself for what happened . |
| 4 | The low angle means that all shadows — ours , the dogs ' , the trees ' — are long and ghostly across the ice , and the orange light wraps itself around everything so that all things seem to be part of one thing . |
| 5 | Offering a quite unique complex for Tuscany , the management prides itself on its attention to detail and its demands for high quality food and accommodation . |
| 6 | It is offered on a half board basis and the management prides itself on its reputation for the good quality home-cooking . |
| 7 | Her clothing moulds itself to her body so as to reveal or to promise as much of the delights within as it conceals ; it too includes silk , soft to the touch ( 3235 ) and the fresh warm taste of morning milk ( 3236 ) . |
| 8 | His initial unease is indicated in his hesitant reference to being on the way to an engagement ( p. 65 ) , and his fear and powerlessness at the end of the scene reflects itself in his abandonment of his turn as he " decides abruptly to leave " ( p. 73 ) . |
| 9 | At the start of your diving day , just press the face button once and watch the bar graph around the perimeter of the display countdown while the DataMax Sport zeroes itself to your current altitude , checks all internal functions and battery power . |
| 10 | The door is closed to new members , and the membership protects itself against what it calls Proliferation with wire , guns , attack dogs , certainly , but above all with a suffocating cloak of secrecy . |
| 11 | The room arranges itself around her form . |
| 12 | Against the egotism of the preoccupation of being with itself , he posits a relation of sociality , whereby the self instead of assimilating the other opens itself to it through a relation with it . |
| 13 | I think you will find as you begin to write through all your senses , that your writing transforms itself into something more fully alive . |
| 14 | There was a lot of closed , closed questions , remember that , the actual page lends itself to it er well |
| 15 | … the elderly woman adapts herself to her stage better than her husband . |
| 16 | For liberalism prides itself on its rejection of moral paternalism , that is the imposition of a particular scheme of the virtuous life upon all citizens . |
| 17 | Of course , this does n't mean that if a man exposes himself to you , you must be repressing that urge within yourself . |
| 18 | Beachcombing soaks up the hours , punctuated with crisp swims during which my scarf unknots itself from my breasts and drifts out to sea like a directionless jelly fish . |
| 19 | And the same applies to all relations in which the subject relates himself to himself . |
| 20 | The Sutcliffe Studio prides itself on its broadcast quality camera work and this presents an attractive film of this part of Wales . |
| 21 | Here I lie on this crimson equatorial shore , far from where the great electronic city dissolves itself under its own photochemical smogs . |
| 22 | And yet this film etches itself upon one 's consciousness . |
| 23 | The paradox does not present itself in quite so acute a form if a weaker version of the contextual approach is adopted , which holds merely that the meaning of a lexical unit reveals itself through its contextual relations , without commitment as to what meaning ‘ really is ’ . |
| 24 | Even as this problem forms itself in my head it is superseded by its very simple and obvious solution . |
| 25 | And then we get through customs , and the two of us are having a laugh because we 're safely back , and suddenly this drunk in a chauffeur 's cap throws himself at us and nearly puts out my eye with a cardboard sign and treads on my foot into the bargain . |
| 26 | Like other sciences , psychology defines itself by its object . |
| 27 | The woman who sells you a ticket at the bus office crosses herself for you as she makes it out . |
| 28 | earth spreads itself on itself . |