Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His prosperity is shown by the ‘ magnificent dwelling house ’ which he built for himself on the north Thames frontage immediately to the east of the Fleet canal . |
| 3 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 4 | Prince and Starky also referred to themselves as the ‘ Two Anointed Ones ’ . |
| 5 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 6 | After all we were all leading aircraftsmen on the course and the officer element were acting pilot officers on probation who generally referred to themselves as the lowest form of animal life within the RAF . |
| 7 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 8 | It took no account of funding arrangements , parliamentary representation at Westminster or the position of the Secretary of State for Scotland , and the members of the convention disagreed among themselves on the number and sex of its members , the method of election and a number of other aspects affecting Scotland 's constitutional future . |
| 9 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
| 10 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 11 | They added to themselves over the years . |
| 12 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , you ca n't say he did n't warn you , ’ she muttered to herself during the course of Monday . |
| 14 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 15 | The image Hitler portrayed of himself at the Nuremberg Rally was clearly consonant with the wide acceptance of the broad principles of legal discrimination and racial segregation , and with the satisfaction generally felt at the ending of the open brutality and pogrom-like anti Jewish disturbances of the vulgar anti-Semites . |
| 16 | It 's like a B-movie from a past of happier memories , turned against itself by the one British director who truly understands the mode . |
| 17 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 18 | A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor , and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner . |
| 19 | And she grinned to herself at the luxury of having someone in her life who would pay attention , who she could talk to . |
| 20 | She switched off the engine , glanced at herself in the driving mirror and got out , letting Bunny jump on to the drive . |
| 21 | Questions had been submitted in advance ; candidates addressing one another by Christian names were so anxious to avoid extremes they almost fell over themselves in the middle . |
| 22 | We kept to ourselves for the rest of the day , taking food from the buttery and retiring early for we were both still exhausted after our journey from England . |
| 23 | He stared at himself in the mirror as they measured him . |
| 24 | Lucy stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 25 | Maggie stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 26 | She stared at herself in the mirror . |
| 27 | They looked at themselves in the Hall of a Million Mirrors . |
| 28 | I looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 29 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 30 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |