Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real mystery about his story is not why two wives refused to make love to him , but how he stopped talking about himself long enough to invite them to bed in the first place . |
| 2 | These letters were full of details of makeup , hair and gossip ; advice on how to make the best of oneself when just beginning one 's career . |
| 3 | Some feminist critics have condemned this film for itself not roundly condemning violence towards women . |
| 4 | The morally estimable act of exposing to us the worst in ourselves nearly always has something morally equivocal about it . |
| 5 | Since all the members of the family made no attempt to hide their feelings of antipathy , Mathilde 's behaviour was in itself not particularly remarked on by those who packed the huge interior of Notre Dame : |
| 6 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 7 | Local Management of Schools was introduced to allow schools to decide for themselves how best to spend money to meet their pupils ' needs . |