Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 2 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Guy Ferris , already making a name for himself in the right circles , made a surprisingly determined play for the younger Miss Fox . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've just decided Pat can now take care of himself in the outside world . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The First Law of Sport : Look doubtfully upon the man who talks of himself in the third person ’ . |
| 16 | Catching sight of herself in the long wall-mirror as she pulled a peach-coloured , button-necked nightshirt over her head , she found herself wondering what Guy was doing . |
| 17 | She sat up , splashing her face with water , catching a glimpse of herself in the steam-clouded mirror . |
| 18 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 19 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 20 | However , it was not all one-sided and Hammer gave a good account of themselves in the first half , restricting Haslemere to one goal and going close themselves with long-range shots . |
| 21 | Filaments linked living beings with the seeds of themselves in the deep-down ooze . |
| 22 | I could take some colour photos of myself in the whole ensemble and maybe send Marcus one . |
| 23 | Soon I shall start snarling at visitors and grubbing for nourishment in the fields , simply because I can not bear to think of myself in the same category as Betty , and she has laid claim to humanity . |
| 24 | What did that do to me as a person , to my sense of myself in the Christian church ? |
| 25 | Role-taking — the mental placing of oneself in the other person 's position — is central to all forms of human communication . |
| 26 | Ruling groups have found that their interests are best safeguarded if they are supported by a work force which can not think for itself in the coherent way writing affords . |
| 27 | Having dug its way out of the compost heap , it must immediately start to fend for itself in the hostile world of the mallee scrub . |
| 28 | The firm badly needs this market share to buy time , so it can fully adapt to the new Windows world and carve out a place for itself in the growing groupware market . |
| 29 | When he did let it out , he did so in a rather peculiar fashion , linking it to a quarrel with Mauve and casting it in a dramatic mode , with himself in the first and then third person . |
| 30 | Clearly , out of sorts with himself in the wet and windy conditions which he hated , he smashed his racquet on the ground on no less than eight occasions . |