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

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1 ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’
2 Has he learned or discovered anything about himself during the past four years ?
3 May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you .
4 She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days .
5 Having watched television documentaries about life in East Germany , Becker was keen to see for himself for the first time .
6 Each young gentleman was provided with his own chamber-pot , which he was expected to empty for himself on the common midden , situated behind the houses .
7 Another performer in One Over The Eight who took to Kenneth with the greatest of affection was Lance Percival , soon to make a national name for himself with the top TV satire show of the Sixties , That Was The Week That Was .
8 It is very difficult to find a reason for that early forebear making a ‘ god ’ for himself in the first place , if it were not a result of the pressures of dependence originating from mammalian childhood .
9 Guy Ferris , already making a name for himself in the right circles , made a surprisingly determined play for the younger Miss Fox .
10 M Beregovoy says that he accepted the money from his ‘ friend , ’ Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help buy a modest , 100 sq m flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs .
11 Mr Beregovoy says he accepted the money from his ‘ friend ’ , Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help to buy a modest , 100 square yard flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs .
12 Finally , in February 1470 , the king regranted the offices which Warwick had taken for himself in the previous August , with Gloucester again the main beneficiary .
13 Finally , in February 1470 , the king regranted the offices which Warwick had taken for himself in the previous August , with Gloucester again the main beneficiary .
14 Until Wulfhere was able to establish a dominant position for himself among the southern kings ( see below , pp. 114 ff. ) , the evidence suggests a multiplicity of regional overlordships .
15 We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority .
16 As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before .
17 And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character .
18 Steinmark was still absent and he , Nordern , was doing two men 's work which annoyed him , particularly as he wanted to give the best possible impression of himself during the next few weeks .
19 For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money .
20 Drinks with strange women after the show fitted well into the fantasy of himself as the big West End star that the night 's performance had engendered .
21 Though Lewis is said to have found the task of writing these letters morally exhausting — entailing as it did the ceaseless identification of himself with the malign and diabolical point of view — their great strength is that , rather like a dramatic monologue by Browning , they reveal the speaker without succumbing to his terrible outlook .
22 ‘ They 've just decided Pat can now take care of himself in the outside world .
23 Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour .
24 Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce .
25 The New Religious Right in North America eschew humanism when it threatens the fundamental truths of God 's revelation of himself in the sacred scriptures ( at least as they understand them ) .
26 Every gesture , each movement has something planned , even the way he arranges himself in a chair , his hands behind his head , catching glimpses of himself in the polished surfaces , squinting at his reflection , all with an inquisitive vanity .
27 ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ .
28 The apex ( tip ) of the shoot continues growth by mobilising food and water towards itself from the older tissues behind .
29 It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation .
30 It had to find a way of being able to think of itself as the true heir of the persecuted church , not its betrayer .
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