Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The male places himself behind the female and pecks at her cloaca . |
| 2 | While John the Divine describes himself to the seven churches in Asia as your partner in patiently enduring the suffering that comes to those who belong to his Kingdom ’ ( Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 3 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 4 | By inventing a myth , the epic poet frees himself from the group . |
| 5 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 6 | This parasite attaches itself to the mouths of fishes , sea-squirts , etc. 65 . |
| 7 | And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured . |
| 8 | This chapter confines itself to the intangibles . |
| 9 | Though still blind and naked , the chick manoeuvres itself inside the nest until an egg is lodged between its back and the side of the nest . |
| 10 | On the other hand , a court of equity addresses itself to the amount of costs that the mortgagee should be allowed as a condition of redemption . |
| 11 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 12 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 13 | The management prides itself on the true Italian-style home cooking served in the dining-room , and the excellent roof-top terrace affords beautiful views over Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples . |
| 14 | This is a family-run hotel and the management prides itself on the fact that Citalia guests have always received a warm welcome . |
| 15 | Yet each individual bout articulates itself within the framework of the history of boxing , known and unknown . |
| 16 | In its extreme form , therefore , empiricism limits itself to the results of direct observation and virtually denies the value of theory since this is generalization removed from first-hand observation . |
| 17 | Even Hermsprong ( 1796 ) , one of the first political novels , whose eponymous hero models himself on the noble savage , confines itself to great houses or to those that emulate them , while the savage himself , in true romance tradition , turns out to be an aristocrat , and the rightful heir to his wicked uncle 's estate . |
| 18 | In this case we may say that the reflection shows itself through the mirror , and this illustrates the general principle that consciousness can be understood only by an examination of how it reveals itself through the material world . |
| 19 | While foot-based metre(s) do display promotion , they are typically " heavier " lines , and such heaviness shows itself in the high degree of demotion ( e.g. of lexical monosyllables — blind in three blind mice ) and subordination within the line . |
| 20 | The affinity between dog and cat reveals itself in the number of equi-status or near-equi-status traits they have in common ; and the differences between dog and cat appear more sharply when the affinity patterns are articulated in greater detail by means of diagnostic frames . |
| 21 | Eventually this dear girl gets herself off the cash desk right and where does she find them ? |
| 22 | What if a council finds itself on the brink ? |
| 23 | His new work attaches itself to the ready-made tradition , taking the theme of laziness into ‘ a la recherche du temps perdu ’ . |
| 24 | In this respect my work differentiates itself from the work of the Minimalists . |
| 25 | The effect of Lenin 's strategy , he warned , would be that the party substitutes itself for the class , ‘ the party organization substitutes itself for the party , the Central Committee substitutes itself for the organization and , finally , a ‘ dictator ’ substitutes himself for the Central Committee ’ . |
| 26 | This distinction manifests itself in the fact that the " see that " paraphrase fits the second sentence very well but is very awkward for the first . |
| 27 | Dr Macdonald clearly identifies the link between oedema , weeping and the flow of urine from the bladder in which the body frees itself from the water retained in the tissues causing the swelling which brings the patient to the doctor . |
| 28 | I threaten nothing , but sit on my branch , attentive as any other creature ; as slowly the forest reveals itself in the cry of a bird , the crash of a branch , the rustle of leaves as something moves through the forest litter ; the incessant percussive music of insects . |
| 29 | The contradiction shows itself in the phenomena of underconsumption and in periodic crises ; and it provides the main ground for Marx 's expectation of an eventual breakdown of the capitalist system . |
| 30 | As things stand , it is probably only a matter of time before the site finds itself in the hands of property speculators , a sad fate for what was one of the largest mills on the Painswick Stream . |