Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 2 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 3 | Did Lucy think of herself as that heterosexually convenient phenomenon , the ‘ non-orgasmic woman ’ ; had sex been awful for her ? |
| 4 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 5 | Manville nodded to himself with satisfaction . |
| 6 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 7 | Lucy stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 8 | Shiona smiled to herself with an uneasy kind of pleasure . |
| 9 | Meredith smiled to herself at his mounting vehemence . |
| 10 | ‘ And for the sake of the greater justice , ’ Yeremi murmured to himself as a personal amen . |
| 11 | ‘ It does n't apply , ’ Kingsley Amis remarked to himself as an adolescent Marxist on joining the army during the war and glancing around the barracks at his new comrades . |
| 12 | Gautama Buddha looked on himself as a doctor and discovered the correct diagnosis of man 's suffering . |
| 13 | Maggie stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 14 | Jane grimaced at herself in the mirror . |
| 15 | Dyer thinks of himself as ‘ a stranger to mankind ’ ; his life is led apart , ‘ in a Corner ’ . |
| 16 | Googol talked to himself in a muffled manner or merely droned — hard to say which — whenever he was in space . |
| 17 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 18 | Old Donald chuckled in himself as the scene in the road came over him again . |
| 19 | Denis cursed to himself for his indiscretion . |
| 20 | In the Gospel , too , Jesus alludes to himself as Paraclete : for when promising ‘ another paraclete ’ or ‘ another as paraclete ’ in 14:16 ( it makes no difference which way you take the Greek ) Jesus is dearly insisting that he is their Paraclete already , just as the Epistle says he is . |
| 21 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 22 | Daisy gazed at herself in the mirror . |
| 23 | Every time Dyson looked at himself in the kitchen mirror , trying to imagine it was a television screen , his stomach and Jannie 's stomach turned over in unison . |
| 24 | It was a fine point , and it could keep Yggdrasil arguing with itself for ever : physically , Daine was still in Trefusis 's jurisdiction , but if fleeing into his Dream counted as escaping from Princetown then Enforcement should take over . |
| 25 | Hilton urges those who would know God to think of themselves as pilgrims to " Ierusalem-ward " set out on a journey to the centre of their own inner world : He thus brings into play resonances from the traditional Augustinian image of the City of God the desire for which activates the Christian life and from allegorical exegesis where Jerusalem signifies , morally , the soul of the faithful Christian striving for the vision of peace and , anagogically , the life of those in heaven who see God face to face . |
| 26 | ( There is one additional vocal air in the ballet , a patter song in Italian that Lully composed for himself in his role as the village schoolmaster . |
| 27 | As well as inheriting stipend and liveries , Bassanos and Laniers competed amongst themselves for patents and privileges . |
| 28 | Sheila looked at herself in her handbag mirror . |
| 29 | Taylor saw for himself on Saturday how the 24-year-old Aston Villa flyer has matured into a player of genuine international potential . |
| 30 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |